Like "geborstene Planeten" does not invoke a raised eyebrow from German native speakers But would that not be what now is an astreoid field?

I also agree. Moons are not moons in beta1, therefore they suck at being moons and such. Maybe moons could stretch the gravity well and have extra/different upgrades like "choose between 3 extra pop, 4 civil oder tactical slots for the main planet".

There already is a thread about that floating around somewhere.

Yes, but the sun-planet distance/relation in sins is not COMPLETELEY stupid. The moon-planet releation is non-existant and totally strange. You could as well add jelly planets or make space ponies a seperate unique faction to increase the feel and atmosphere of the game. While you're at it, make the background of the galaxy a microsoft windows logo.  

(I am just being overly sarcastic, nothing personal or malicious intended )

Here is the old thread. (Cannot make it a link for some reason...)

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/419642

Well it seems one of the reasons for moons is that you are guaranteed to have one right next to your home world. In trinity one of the big issues with competitive games was that you can get a random map where not every player has an asteroids spawning right next to their home world. So I like to think of them as a moon of your homeworld, its just that it would be too complicated having to colonizeable objects in the same gravity well.

That said, there are at least three different mods that implement moons in three different ways so that they're in the same gravity well as there planets. In only one of these do they have an affect on gameplay though, and even in that one they are not colonizeable.

Some mods have these too.

yeah something like this would be cool (the planet with 2 crossed rings)

ps and if they could add more cool sky boxes- like interactive ones like in eve- when you turn the camera one way you can see the nebula a little better so its like 3D 

Well, it is not strange if you know the story... TEC generated plenty of nuclear waste during the ongoing war... from time to time, cargo ship was used for store the waste on various moon... well, in place of a long wall of text, look the video below who show why moon are not always in the gravity wells of a planet...

Well, i have make more crazy with one of my starbase model who include a mobile neutron star used as energy source... http://www.love-from-russia.be/g4_swarm-6.25_million_poly.avi ...

Maybe wait until Vasari are added to rebellion... one of the faction is able to strip planet from resource and transform it in a dead asteroid... maybe Stardock/Ironclad will make a special mesh who somehow look like your picture in place of the normal dead asteroid mesh...

This actually does bring up some interesting issues with the classification of objects in the solar system; issues that are still being worked out.

There are many dwarf planets that are rounded by their own gravity but are actually smaller than our moon like Pluto, Eris, and Ceres.

While there are differences between these bodies in terms of composition and location, the main difference between them in terms of classification is some orbit other bodies and some directly orbit the sun.  Most are trans-neptunian objects like Pluto but Ceres is in our asteroid belt.  There actually could be hundreds in the outer Kuiper Belt, scattered disk, and Oort Cloud.

So if you see a "moon" in Rebellion and it's not near another planet, it might just be a dwarf planet.

Mars actually has 2 misshapen"crappy moons" called Deimos and Phobos that are probably just captured asteroids that resemble the resource asteroids in Sins (not my observation, originally, someone else pointed this out).  Our moon, by contrast was likely formed out of the debris from a collision with a Mars-sized planet, which is way more bad-ass.

Factoid: Did you know it took the Apollo 11 crew 3 days to get to Earth's Moon?  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Speed_of_light_from_Earth_to_Moon.gif

I really like the idea of changing them to rouge, perhaps partially destroyed planets

i still like the destroyed planets more, but as a fast fix i would accept dwarf planets

anyone who wants to post that in the bugtracker

I like the idea of having moons only accessible from their planet.

Also maybe give them a unique set of bonus's that whn explored  adds the bonus both to the moon AND the planet it's supposed to be a moon of? What if moons could function as an auxilery government for their planets? (The gravity influence of the nearby planet makes it impossible to aim superweapons at a moon?)

Now there is a good idea! Both of you are on the right track, I think. I was thinking that it would either be part of a larger then normal gravity well, or maybe make for an odd shaped gravity well, but I guess your way makes at least as much sense. 

The moons currently added should simply be renamed 'dwarf planets' because that is what they basically are, while these suggested changes should be added also.

I'd also like to see Gas Giants with multiple moons for added flavour, but I'm not sure how this would be implemented.

I was trying to find a clip of the "moon and sunroof" scene from the movie Bachelor Party, but it's so old I guess no one put it up on YouTube.  Oh well.

I'm surprised no one has realized that the solar representations are depicted "as shown", so to speak, from the reference frame of phase space.

You know, that FTL method which requires Phase Lanes and a Phase Drive? Yeah, that. I'd say that the maps are laid out the way they are because that's how it looks when viewed from the reference frame of Phase Space- which will be more important than a "normal" reference frame- at least as considered from the perspective of interstellar warfleet strategists and tacticians, as well as emperors and prime ministers.

Which would mean the reasons that moons aren't in gravity wells because they do not exist in them from the perspective of phase space. And thus it would be logical.

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What? You'll suspend disbelief for FTL, aliens, and psychic psychos, but not the idea that the maps are laid out like they are because that's what it looks like from phase space? Seriously? /<-for the unbeliever of THE MIGHT OF PHASE SPACE.