I'm sorry but for someone supposedly writing about the hard science of terraforming you really don't have a clue. I guess my point is that goldy lock zone planets would be highly desirable while planets far away from a sun would be more like outposts or military bases as they can't be made self sustaining.Īnd planets that require high tech terraforming and tech to maintain that climate - they would quickly revert to their volcanic or frozen natural state if that technology was destroyed. would require very high maintenance costs.Īnyway, I don't want to babble too long. If they are farther outside that then they would probably need to be moved or would need a very advanced shield that uses alot of energy. The planet would have to be in the goldy locks zone for easy terraforming, if they are slightly outside that zone then an artifcial planet shield could amplify or dampen sun rays. It would be great to see some restrictions added to this besides just volcanic terraforms into barren and then barren terraforms into terran. Lots of space games have toyed around with various methods like this. Make terraforming technology have some tier levels so similar planets can be terraformed for your race a bit earlier. I also saw in one of the gameplay videos a home planet orbiting a gas giant and it was tropical which I thought was pretty cool. And those colonized moons would most certainly use the gas giant to harvest resources.įor some reference - if Jupiter were in the goldy locks zone then its frozen moon could possibly be very earth like. And they typically have moons that are colonization. Quite the contrary, they would be great resource harvesting planets. This is not to say that gas giants are useless in a 4x space game. When a civilzation can do this then they can probably transcend time and space which makes terraforming a gas giant a mute point. If you could terraform a gas giant then you could basically terraform a star. So, gas giants you really can't terraform.
Now planets that do not have the correct size, density, mas, composition, and such basically need a mastery of gravity and manipulation of mass. So you get alot of heat on one side and no heat on the other. Now there are other problems with venus that make it even more difficult but might be too much for a video game - stuff like its daily rotation is 117 earth days for one of its days. So anyway, terraforming Venus is possible but would require ALOT of extra tech and a monumental industrial capacity to do implement that on a planetary scale.īut the bright side is that Venus size, mass, density, gravity means that once terraformed it would be quite sustainable. Venus surface is also very hot which could require more technology if the shield does not cool the planet. So this would convert the Co2 and other stuff on venus atmosphere to earthlike conditions. Then you would need technology that can convert atoms into other atoms(we actually have this device that turns lead into gold but its very energy inefficient, its prinicples can be applied to any atoms). This type of planet would need some kind of planetary shield to regulate the amount of sun that is let in(the shield could also amplify it as well). Only trace amounts of water, and a poisonous atmosphere. The type of substances it is composed of is not ideal though. These features are literally the hardest to manipulate and would need very advanced technology akin to unlocking the secrets of the universe. Venus is like earth in its size, mass, density, composition, and gravity. I will link an article with its characteristics, just take a glance
Now a planet like Venus would be alot more difficult to terraform. Also mars seems to have been earth like at one point so its just a matter of rebooting the ecosystem - all the materials are pretty much there in terms of water, soil, etc.
With our current tech we already have workable theories on how to achieve this(note we do not have the industrial capacity to actually do it). Then a barren planet like mars is actually fairly easy to terraform. If your species is Human and like a temperate planet such as earth. And some planets would require so much advanced technology to terraform that your civilization would be capable to ripping planets apart and reforming them at will. Some planets are much easier to terraform than others. If you want a bit of realistic terraforming you should implement tiers. It was always kinda annoying how in games like Master of Orion how you get terraforming and then all in 30 turns every planet in your empire is terran quality.Ģnd - I want to go over some science about terraforming. I am watching quill18 gameplay video and he mentioned that terraforming is a late game technology.ġst - good.