Some feedback on gravity wells/planets rescaling

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I like very much how planets were rescaled but gravity wells have some issues.
First I think the Home Planet/Terran gravity wells are too big, ships take
a lot of time to navigate from one side to another, perhaps something a lil
smaller but yet bigger than vanilla would be a better pick.
Second I have noticed that other planet types gravity wells are very little
now, again something a lil bigger but not big as vanilla might be a better
pick for me.

The sun gravity well is giving headaches, it's barely usable and ships
often get stuck due to some kind of pathfind issue that prevent them from
jumping or going where they were instructed to go within the gravity well.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by gianmari...@gmail.com on 11 Jan 2010 at 7:28

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I can second the star gravity well problem - you need to expand it due to the
expansion in star size.  The pathfinding issue is caused because there is only a
small sliver of navigatable space along a star,so you have to tell the ship to 
move
in tiny straight lines (game frequently refuses to let you intentionally move 
ships
outside the grav well).  See uploaded file for a lovely screen shot of some 
scouts
that can't get to their destination.

The difference between the Terran grav wells and other grav wells could stand 
some
tweaking too.  The Terran ones are much larger than ice, volcanic, and desert. 
Recommend shrinking down the Terran one to about the same size as the other 
planets.
 I recommend avoiding the SOGE situation, though, where it takes so long to move
ships across the map as to get frustrating.

Original comment by thomas.s...@gmail.com on 11 Jan 2010 at 11:09

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updated stars 

Original comment by jtaylor...@gmail.com on 12 Jan 2010 at 5:45

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well i do like the new planet sizes. i do not really like the bigger wells on 
some 
of the plantes.and i completely agree with what both people said before me. i 
also 
completely agree with this 
"I recommend avoiding the SOGE situation, though, where it takes so long to 
move 
ships across the map as to get frustrating."

Original comment by ant77...@gmail.com on 15 Jan 2010 at 1:59

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Star gravity wells still looks the same to me, what was changed?

Original comment by gianmari...@gmail.com on 15 Jan 2010 at 9:53

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updated terrran and terran home 

Original comment by jtaylor...@gmail.com on 18 Jan 2010 at 4:24

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Asteroids and uncolonizable have huge gravity wells now compared to other space 
entities.

Original comment by gianmari...@gmail.com on 21 Jan 2010 at 2:06

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redid all planet gravity wells

Original comment by jtaylor...@gmail.com on 22 Jan 2010 at 8:16

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Can't build on volcanic planets now, I suspect it's related to these last 
changes.

Original comment by gianmari...@gmail.com on 23 Jan 2010 at 1:54

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redid affected planets

Original comment by jtaylor...@gmail.com on 23 Jan 2010 at 4:37

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Original comment by jtaylor...@gmail.com on 24 Jan 2010 at 6:15

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