Nah, doesn't work. I've tried it. Every grav well is an entity for itself, you still need to use the phaselanes to go to other grav wells, i.e. you need to use phaselanes to go from one planet to the other, even when grav wells overlap each other.

I just had an idea that might work. Maby we could mod the resource asteroids around the planets to have population and such. Then you can add as many as we want to a gravity well. We could replace most or all of the asteroids info file with a planets info. Has anyone tried this? We would also have to mod it so all planets gave a steady trickle of Crystal and Metal, or simply get rid of the crystal and metal costs on everything and adjust the money cost acordingly.

If this is possible it still might not be possible to give them their own build radius but this is all still to be seen.

The only way i can see the multiple planets in a single gravity well happening is to create a fixed map that loads the same pattern of planets at the same locations each, and every time instead of the random maps that load now. I am all for a load custom map option in sins. Many mods will depend on sins being able to use custom maps (including my Star Trek mod). The only way i see custom maps happening is with the forge tools. We will have to wait for the games final release before that happens.

Im not sure about the fog of war question. I like the current system the way it is. it fits with the fact most sensors can see the whole solar system, but not into other star systems. The "solar system" as sins displays it is not really a solar system if you think about it. It is a galaxy with the star being the center of the galaxy, and the fact that ice worlds can be close to the sun but terran worlds are at the far edge prove this. The center of the galaxy is the light source but not necessarily that planets star. Like in master of orion the planets found are the most viable for colonization. It doesnt mean it is the only planet in that system. However i do see what you are thinking, and i like the idea of making actual solar systems with a star, and planets in a single grav well.

While it is possible to do many things in notepad. Editing maps is not one of them that i am aware of.

Hi guys - I'm looking into the above for you with Ironclad.

Here's the official word:

Question 1)  Ironclad may include this functionality when they make their environment content pass, but they can't guarantee it as they haven't finalized the list.

Question 2) The Sins fog-of-war is macro (i.e., between planets) and not local (i.e., within a planet's gravity well). Ironclad may add local fog-of-war as a purely non-supported modding feature, but it's too early to tell.

So to sum up - maybe on both, but no guarantees.   As we get closer to release, we'll be able to tie down these types of questions more. Right now it's still too early in the process.

If a ship is that close to a star, or black hole it should take damage over time (thermal for stars, and gravity wave for black holes). This will make camping there a very risky thing to do I wasn't aware of the antimatter loss at a star. Thanks for pointing that out.

If we can pull off entire solar systems in a single grav well the same should be true for that solar systems star. If you get too close you take DoT. Im not sure how to pull that off, but as we learn more im sure it is possible.

Thank you for the info Yarlen. We appreciate the time you took. Maybe sounds good to me right now.