babelfisch said: I think the bigger problem for atmospheric landings is compelling gameplay rather than technical difficulties. If they just add atmospheric planets without readdressing the current activities that we can do on airless worlds a lot of people will be disappointed. Click to expand...

And the problem is you are completely right about that too. If we dont include ELWs, WWs and planets with life as you say there wouldnt be that much to do on them. Maybe with the exploration update we may be able to survey planets and stuff by landing on them, and theres always surface mining but other than that, the problem of lack of compelling gameplay is present across the whole of Elite. I dont really land on planets at the moment because although I enjoy messing about in the srv, once Ive done that for a couple of hours every now and again I just go back to space for a while until I feel like going to a planet again.The other thing is I cant really think off the top of my head what else they could put onto planets themselves, off the top of my head the most interesting things to do on planets would be to do with outposts and bases but that wont apply to the majority of planets. Its a tough one to solve for sure