[SUGGESTION-MSN] Venera chain goals. Venera 1?

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Sabratha
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[SUGGESTION-MSN] Venera chain goals. Venera 1?

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Currently in the soviet sandbox the Venera 7 lander requires a previous Venera 15 flight.
This doesn't relaly add up either from a gameplay or historical point of view.

Venera 7 was launched in RL in 1970, while Venera 15 was launched in 1983 in RL. Thus a requirement of sending a later probe to be allowed to safely send an earlier probe sounds pretty weird.

Moreover while in-game Venera 7 is a pretty no-nonsense single season mission, Venera 15 is a complex 6 season one. As it is now, the soviet player has little chance to complete the Venus missions before the moon landing and there's not much chance he can take the lead in Venus exploration as in RL, as the US missions are more straightforward and can be launched earlier as a result.

My suggestion would be to implement a simple single-season Venus flyby for the soviets, Venera-1 or Venera-2. Completing that should be the basis for anuling penalties for Venus landers such as Venera 7. Venera 15 should be a late-game complex mission, not an introduction to Venus exploration by any means.

If Venera 1 can't be implemented because of the need for new animations, then at least I'd suggest dropping the flyby requirement from Venera 7 in the soviet sandbox and soviet campaigns.
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Re: [SUGGESTION-MSN] Venera chain goals. Venera 1?

Post by Nacho84 »

Hello Sabratha,

I will send you an e-mail about this one later in the week so that we can discuss it in further detail.

Cheers,
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