Moons?

Not ATM, though you could create a purely graphical moon by modifying the planet meshes to include it.

Well that sucks ass.
I think this is a must for this game in a next patch maybe.

That's no moon!

lol, considering that we beta testers badgered them about it through the entire beta process, I doubt it'll happen, but I'll keep my fingers crossed.

even if its just a simple tiny random one out of three possible meshes that orbits the home planet, im happy.
our earth couldnt sustain life (or us at least) without our moon to stabilize the climate..
since the only homeplanets in sins are terran or desert, you have to assume that the devs took our earth as the example, yet no moon?

Technically the asteriods are the moons, they dont have to be nice and round like our moon, even mars has 2 asteriod moons

That's no moon..it's a..asteroid. Oh well.

Any thing that's round the planet that's round the star is a moon, whatever it's asteroid or seem like planet, or even huge, it's moon.

What if it's a space station?

Hi all... New here... And he's right... You don't really need an Earth-like moon to 'sustain' life on a planet... Everything with the appropriate mass ratio(to the planet) will do the job... It could be an asteroid( or many of them) or even another planet... It's called 'twin planets', they both act as 'moons' to each other... But even with a moon there's no certainty that life will sprout up... Nature is sooo complicated...

Than it would be called an Artificial Satellite. Anything that orbits a planet is a satellite. Moons are natural satellites. Technically, even asteroids can be counted as moons. Mars has 2 such moons. Pluto has 3.

Gas giants like Saturn and Jupiter, however have dozens of awesome moons like the volcanic world of Io or the ice-covered Titan. Moons like this could well be useful if implemented into the game. The Vasari would love to build a colony on Io.

humm,
you can mod them in as a buildable item, but dont know of a way to get them to spawn.

just need
1)sphere mesh
2)Icon build slot
3)Set up slots for it
4) Maybe build at a shipyard, move the moon to spot you want, hit the little special "place moon", then have it set its speed to 0 for it wont move.
5)Use the same method of skills for cap-ships as the upgrade method, you then spend a lot of metal/crystal/credits for the bonuses.

Thats a Melon!

The easiest way to achieve this would be to replace the mesh of the dead asteroid planet type with a graphically size reduced version of a larger planet.

They are game designers not astrophysics engineers.

Bump.

I would want a mear graphical moon than looks nice and orbits properly. However if it can be done better, i think the easiest way of doing it would be changing an metal/crystal astroid into a moon, set it to a path (if they can be made to move) around the planet, and from that you could use the menu for building a mine, (create new upgrades available only to this object). But then the question is WHAT should you be able to build on it (i think 3 choices with one slot- reaserch lab (+10% to both domestic and military research rates - to keep it simple), lunar factory (+10% to construction spead of buildings and ships in that gravity well), and military base (+6 logistic and military slots/points for that gravity well). For the random chance of a planet have a moon, there are random chances for a planet to have an artifact or planetary bonus, it could be included there (but you dont have to "Search" for the moon to notice it"

But yes please... even if its just a mod to the planet graphics to have an inert moon. It just seems like somethings missing... and there is...