Call it a planet or not, Pluto is real, and deserves to be in the Sol system! Who knows what anomalies we are missing out on?
I have no idea how to do this, btw.
I have no idea how to do this, btw.
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I was watching a youtube game where the player started in our solar system. I don't remember if Pluto was there, but they did have Ceres in the Astroid Belt. I'd like to see some rouge planets, inclusion of the Kepler Belt, dwarf planets and Ort cloud. We know so more about our own solar system that hasn't made it into the ski-fi imagination yet.
Exactly. Pluto may not technically be a planet, but I saw Vesta in the game, and Ceres. I didn't see Pluto though. Possibly it was there and out of frame, but I suspect it didn't make the cut.
Plan for this mod
Phase one: Collect Underpants!
Wait, no.
Target one: A small generic minor planet named Pluto in the Sol system.
Target two: That object looks like Pluto, and has a moon called Charon, or theyou share a single object called Pluto and Charon
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Pluto is not in the game. It's obvious in Arumba's LP, which starts in Sol.
Which doesn't make any sense. The fact that Pluto is not considered a planet anymore does not mean it shoudn't be in the game at all...
Which doesn't make any sense. The fact that Pluto is not considered a planet anymore does not mean it shoudn't be in the game at all...
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In one of the dev diaries they talked about system initializers (or similar named) which allows to create pre-defined solar systems. In Arumba's stream you see that you can select one of them during species creation.
If you are going to add another planet to the Sol System please think about game balance. In Arumba's stream the Sol System was already very wealthy (11 energy, 4 science!). An additional planets means an additional place where resources could spawn upon galaxy creation. It might be a good idea to swap a lesser celestial body (maybe an asteroid) for Pluto.
Sol is already "space-Ireland" anyway...
My theory is that it's supposed to be newbie-oriented, so that wouldn't change much.
In my opinion, an extra planet or two in the Sol System wouldn't do much harm in a single player game.
By all means, mod it in.
By all means, mod it in.
Pluto is real, sure. But, unless I'm mistaken, there are moons of gas giants that are larger than Pluto but aren't included.
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At least one moon each from Jupiter and Saturn are included, which can be interpreted as standing for the others. Pluto could thus represent all the Trans-Neputunian objects.
If Sol has an unbalanced number of survey-able bodies, we can always drop an asteroid.
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Call it a planet or not, Pluto is real, and deserves to be in the Sol system! Who knows what anomalies we are missing out on?
I have no idea how to do this, btw.
If you don't do this, I totally will. I am fully confident that I can.
The reason Pluto is not included is not because it doesn't exist, but because the devs needed a cut off point for a "system" and the Kuiper belt was a good point. The reason the asteroids in the Asteroid Belt are included is because they are closer to the sun and, thus, within the system boundaries.
That said, sure, go ahead and make a Pluto mod. That is what mods are for, after all, to modify the game to suit players needs and wants, and many people clearly want Pluto. I suggest including Eris in the mod as well, for fairness sake and to reinforce the idea the Kuiper Belt is a collection of many things.
That said, sure, go ahead and make a Pluto mod. That is what mods are for, after all, to modify the game to suit players needs and wants, and many people clearly want Pluto. I suggest including Eris in the mod as well, for fairness sake and to reinforce the idea the Kuiper Belt is a collection of many things.
Realistically, what is the point of having Pluto in the game? It isn't going to be a habitable world and is tiny as well, not to mention how far out it is (okay, you could have it been in the close section of its orbit but still...)
So thinking about it... there is probably a non defined cap that a system has. There are dozens of moons and dwarf planets that they could have added... But I think they decided against that and gave the sol system an average number of locations in order to not make it a guaranteed better starting system then an average random system.
As such it would be fine to add random things like pluto IF and only if, it was guaranteed to be resource/anomaly free... otherwise im pretty sure you would be making the sol system guaranteed better than the average random system.
As such it would be fine to add random things like pluto IF and only if, it was guaranteed to be resource/anomaly free... otherwise im pretty sure you would be making the sol system guaranteed better than the average random system.
Realism has very little place in a game with space penguins. Style is more important than substance in Stellaris. What's the point of adding in Pluto? It's awesome, that's the point.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Solar_System_objects_by_size/
Pluto is the first known sun-orbiting celestial body of our solar system that is smaller than many of the other planets' moons. It is, therefore, by definition, a 'dwarf planet', and PDS seemingly decided to only include planet sized planets in Sol. This is also why there are no other moons in Sol. Now I'd argue that going on the size limit PDS set there shouldn't be any singularly visible asteroids in the belt for mining, but that's another argument.
Pluto is the first known sun-orbiting celestial body of our solar system that is smaller than many of the other planets' moons. It is, therefore, by definition, a 'dwarf planet', and PDS seemingly decided to only include planet sized planets in Sol. This is also why there are no other moons in Sol. Now I'd argue that going on the size limit PDS set there shouldn't be any singularly visible asteroids in the belt for mining, but that's another argument.
