Habitable Main Planets
Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2018 12:34 am
Habitable Main Planets
Current OXZ - Version 1.6.0.
Uploaded 08 December 2020.
Can planet with radius 3000 km or so be advanced agriculture world with population of billions residents? Definitely no any way. Such planet is too small to maintain dense AND warm atmosphere. Located in habitable zone small planet would has extremely rarefied atmosphere with pressure about few millibars or less.
This OXP redefines vanilla planet database to more realistic values.
Habitable Main Planets was developed to adopt PlanetEngine, integrated onto Planetary Systems OXP, to main planets. PlanetEngine calculates atmosphere temperatures and pressures depending of planet mass and insolation level, but some of vanilla main planet population has unrealistically low radii to be densely populated worlds.
PlanetEngine with Habitable Main Planets gives more reliable data for main planets too.
Range of main planets radii redefined from vanilla 2820...6911 km to 2505...7496 km. As a result average planet radius increased from vanilla 4870 to 5465 km.
Minimal radii of planets with biomarkers in description such as tree, forests, ocean etc are increased to 5425 km.
Minimal radii of agricultural planets with TL > 3 AND without biomarkers are increased to 4450 km.
Radii of all above listed planet are proportionally scaled using 6400 km radius as reference point.
Radii of some Famous Planets are readjusted individually using above mentioned rules of thumb.
Minimal air pressure on surface level for planets with biomarkers is approx. 0.5 bar, permitting flourishing natural ecosystems and outdoor activity without breathing equipment.
Minimal air pressure on surface level for agricultural planets or Famous Planets without biomarkers is approx. 0.2 bars, permitting outdoor activity without pressurized suits, only with breathing equipment. It seems too harsh environment for advanced agricultural worlds, but aquaponic farms can be solution.
Small agricultural planets with TL < 4 has too low air pressure to permit any outdoor activity without pressurized suits. Due to new legend such planets are mining worlds, but it is a different story.
More info about PlanetEngine will be in the relevant topic.
Dependencies
Habitable Main Planets OXP can be used per se as pure ambience, bit it provides more realistic background for PlanetEngine. So Sun Gear and Planetary System OXPs are recommended.
Now Habitable Main Planets declared as obligatory in Sun Gear manifest.
Known Issues
Unfortunately this readjusting did not completely eliminates conflicts with vanilla descriptions such as "The planet Atrare is cursed by vicious mountain monkeys" (case for poor industrial planet with radius 3144 km). Procedural generation is so procedural
Setting minimal radius to 4250 km or above will partially solve problem, but I prefer to allow more variation in main planet physical conditions. If you plan terraforming missions planet with almost zero atmosphere pressure will be a bit wrong target, isn't it?
Distance between witchpoint and main planet in vanilla game is pseudo-random value in range 10...14 main planet radii. Since Oolite 1.82 this distance is defined as absolute value – parameter planet_distance, so increasing Lave vanilla radius from 4116 km to 5821 km for example will only slightly affect distance from witchpoint to main station and travel time. Main station is always positioned on distance to main planet surface equal to main planet radius, but some OXPs using absolute coordinates for positioning of additional objects will not function as intended after installing Habitable Main Planets.
UPD
Improved visual appearance of all main planets is included onto Habitanle Main Planets since version 1.5. See my post from 25.10.2020 for more details.
Current OXZ - Version 1.6.0.
Uploaded 08 December 2020.
Can planet with radius 3000 km or so be advanced agriculture world with population of billions residents? Definitely no any way. Such planet is too small to maintain dense AND warm atmosphere. Located in habitable zone small planet would has extremely rarefied atmosphere with pressure about few millibars or less.
This OXP redefines vanilla planet database to more realistic values.
Habitable Main Planets was developed to adopt PlanetEngine, integrated onto Planetary Systems OXP, to main planets. PlanetEngine calculates atmosphere temperatures and pressures depending of planet mass and insolation level, but some of vanilla main planet population has unrealistically low radii to be densely populated worlds.
PlanetEngine with Habitable Main Planets gives more reliable data for main planets too.
Range of main planets radii redefined from vanilla 2820...6911 km to 2505...7496 km. As a result average planet radius increased from vanilla 4870 to 5465 km.
Minimal radii of planets with biomarkers in description such as tree, forests, ocean etc are increased to 5425 km.
Minimal radii of agricultural planets with TL > 3 AND without biomarkers are increased to 4450 km.
Radii of all above listed planet are proportionally scaled using 6400 km radius as reference point.
Radii of some Famous Planets are readjusted individually using above mentioned rules of thumb.
Minimal air pressure on surface level for planets with biomarkers is approx. 0.5 bar, permitting flourishing natural ecosystems and outdoor activity without breathing equipment.
Minimal air pressure on surface level for agricultural planets or Famous Planets without biomarkers is approx. 0.2 bars, permitting outdoor activity without pressurized suits, only with breathing equipment. It seems too harsh environment for advanced agricultural worlds, but aquaponic farms can be solution.
Small agricultural planets with TL < 4 has too low air pressure to permit any outdoor activity without pressurized suits. Due to new legend such planets are mining worlds, but it is a different story.
More info about PlanetEngine will be in the relevant topic.
Dependencies
Habitable Main Planets OXP can be used per se as pure ambience, bit it provides more realistic background for PlanetEngine. So Sun Gear and Planetary System OXPs are recommended.
Now Habitable Main Planets declared as obligatory in Sun Gear manifest.
Known Issues
Unfortunately this readjusting did not completely eliminates conflicts with vanilla descriptions such as "The planet Atrare is cursed by vicious mountain monkeys" (case for poor industrial planet with radius 3144 km). Procedural generation is so procedural
Setting minimal radius to 4250 km or above will partially solve problem, but I prefer to allow more variation in main planet physical conditions. If you plan terraforming missions planet with almost zero atmosphere pressure will be a bit wrong target, isn't it?
Distance between witchpoint and main planet in vanilla game is pseudo-random value in range 10...14 main planet radii. Since Oolite 1.82 this distance is defined as absolute value – parameter planet_distance, so increasing Lave vanilla radius from 4116 km to 5821 km for example will only slightly affect distance from witchpoint to main station and travel time. Main station is always positioned on distance to main planet surface equal to main planet radius, but some OXPs using absolute coordinates for positioning of additional objects will not function as intended after installing Habitable Main Planets.
UPD
Improved visual appearance of all main planets is included onto Habitanle Main Planets since version 1.5. See my post from 25.10.2020 for more details.