Don't reveal spoilers if you don't want to spoil late game, its really cool stuff and I don't want to ruin your 1 year wait for this update
I think this one is going to take some time... so many things from nexerelin are now part of the base game and I thing the market owner sections are most likely going to need him to rewrite the whole thing :3
I wonder what he will do with colony management if he will add new types of markets like terraforming buildings so we could terraform astronomical bodies if they are desertic to earth-like worlds or jungle worlds. Colonized planets would have to use a layer like the
that basically loses transparency over time and becomes opaque so that a desert planet slowly tansitions to a earth-like using the same texture found in the planetary textures folder. It could be done now that alex actually added the
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red planet which once you remove the shield it reveals the planet underneath
without altering the whole world gen. It would be really cool but the issue is that this is most likely going to be thrown aside since is never been done and honestly it would be a shame if this wasn't made now that we could do something like that. Terraforming should be in the game and we could add planet shades or mirrors that we would need to build in order to stabilize a planet's atmosphere.
All the textures are already in the game and the code that would allow this is already in the game other than the logic forthe different elements like: how many shades or mirrors would a planet need to be fully stabalized (insufficient numbers would basically prevent reaching 100% habitable or desired conditions but would get partly there), a new item that needs to be bought that would need to be shipped in massive quantities like ice, volatiles and organics (ice canons like in penelop's star would be sufficient for ice and volitiles) and lasty a custom placement code so that once terraforming starts, stable orbit spots would show up so the player could build space installations at a really big cost.
I am not expecting this to be added histidine, all I am doing is giving you ideas and its your mod after all. It would just be cool to see this added since battlestations and other stuff like that arent needed anymore.