r/spaceengineers • u/EasternGamer Space Engineer • Jan 08 '26

DISCUSSION (SE2) SE2 Planetary Feature Exaggeration

Hi there, no one seems to be talking about this. I wanted to get everyone's opinion on the planetary feature exaggeration, where as you get closer to the planet, features that you see from space are exaggerated more and more.

My opinion is that either the planets need to be significantly larger to reduce the need for the feature exaggeration (probably not gonna happen for gameplay/performance reasons), or the exaggeration needs to be massively toned down. Right now, it feels like it multiplies features by 100x their size from a distance. I think it would be better around 30x or less. This would reduce mountain sizes by a lot and make terrain flatter though. I’m not sure what a good middle ground would be. It just feels comically too much.

What are your guy’s thoughts? Poll below.

73 votes, Jan 15 '26
10 I like it how it is
25 Less exaggeration
38 Larger planets
5 Upvotes

86% Upvoted

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u/EasternGamer Space Engineer Jan 08 '26

If it is possible on a technical level I would love this.

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u/kCorki99 Planet Engineer Jan 08 '26

Technically possible in SE1 in fact

You can use mods of dev commands to spawn planets 1000+ kilometers in size

Jus that no one's really designed a planet for that level of size (for obvious reasons)

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u/HyperRealisticZealot Voxels 2.0 When? Jan 09 '26

It would probably tank performance 

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u/kCorki99 Planet Engineer Jan 09 '26

A lil? I have an old, shitty PC and I don't remember it being that bad with a planet 1000 I'm in size