Landable Planets Idea

[Blackstarr]

Ok... Ive had this idea dancing around in my head for about the better half of a year now...... I've molded it.... taken away thinks that arent possible.... and I think I have come up with a PLAUSIBLE theory..... I just dont have the technical knowledge to do such a feat....:(

Ok imagine this...... You near Planet Manhattan (Im going to use Manhattan because EVERYONE knows about manhattan) You near Planet Manhattan and you head towards the docking rings..... but..... when you reach the docking rings..... you orbit the planet until you reach another "Docking ring".... now this doesnt look like an ordinary docking ring...... it is a Jumpgate..... BUT!..... when you hover over it it says that it is a docking ring...... you dock with it..... and it takes you to the surface of Manhattan.

Imagine being able to fly around the city on Manhattan, dogfighting around the buildings using them as cover.... docking with a skyscraper...... Imagine it...


AND DONT TELL ME IT ISNT IMPOSSIBLE!!

for there is a way.....


There are two different servers that I want to refer to.....

I cannot remember if off of the top of my head..... but I have been to a server..... that they made an entire SYSTEM into a maze..... when I asked the admins about it.... they said the maze... was in fact.... a gigantic base.

My other reference is to Freeworlds..... the Yavin system to be precise..... they created the yavin system as such so that planet Yavin is HUGE! and all of the moons are orbiting it.

Why do i reference these two examples?

Ill tell you why.

This is how theorize how a landable planet could be created.

Simply create a new system..... call it "Planet Manhattan". Make it a small system.... we are creating a city here not a system... like you would normally be doing.

Now... on the 0 plane of the system you would place a GIGANTIC plane ...... Basically this plane would be a Flat surface... but modeled into that surface you have the basic city..... all of the buildings that you make on the plane are undockable...... it would be as big as the system you are created..... now on this plane.... you add Model buildings.... now these buildings are not like the buildings I mentioned before. No the buldings I mentioned before.... are infact.... molded into the plane itself... therefore it is one large object.. the plane and the buildings.... no... these new buildings are going to be bases.... you will place them among the buildings that are already there and these will all be dockable.

Now..... i know that it sounds like a crazy idea.... but alot of the "Crazy ideas" of long ago are necessities to you and me today.... cars.... airplanes.... im not going to get into that...

The problem is I dont have the technical knowledge to make this dream a reality.... the only thing I know how to do that can help with this project is model the buildings themselves. I have GMAX.... and I took a class on 3D modeling at school.... so I am very good at that....

But I dont know the rest.... adding the system... adding the bases.... Texturing.... Commodities..... all of the good stuff that makes a system worth while.

I have gotten permission from a freind of mine to let me test this theory on his server..... but I need help..... if you want to take part in this feat of engineering them PM me please........

If not ..... you can discuss the idea below as well :D

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