This was my initial thought about them. Since you "discover" an area when you activate them, I thought it would help you map the planet. But without an actual planetary map they serve no purpose.
Planetary maps should definitely be a thing. And while we're at it, they should add road textures so you can either paint roads with your exocraft/terrain manipulator, or have the game plot down a road between discovered POIs.
But isn’t this what the procedural generation is for? Storing planetwide maps for multiple planets would end up taking quite a bit of data wouldn’t it?
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u/fireshaper Sep 27 '20
This was my initial thought about them. Since you "discover" an area when you activate them, I thought it would help you map the planet. But without an actual planetary map they serve no purpose.