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Tres Farmer
Gallente Federation Intelligence Service
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Posted - 2012.07.13 18:48:00 -
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It is believed that elliptical or irregular galaxies can't bear life, as the orbits of the stars in them are disturbing the orbits of planets around said stars - so I'd rule this one out as a draft for New Eden.
Milkyway is a bar-spiral galaxy and as the sun (and it's planets) are out of harms way (no supernovae in the vicinity, etc..) it can bear life (undisturbed time-spans are important here, billions of years).
As for the New Eden Star Cluster.. unfortunately somebody chose a 'spiral like' appearance for the 'top-view' and also warped the 'disk' badly.. I think there was a blog how they did it somewhere (creating coordinates, etc..).
All in all not very realistic and the movement within this 'room' by the means of star gates definitely doesn't add to the atmosphere of being in a 3 dimensional 'space'. |
Tres Farmer
Gallente Federation Intelligence Service
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Posted - 2012.07.13 18:54:00 -
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Vincent Athena wrote:One oddity is the plane of the ecliptic is the same for every solar system, and lines up with the plane of the star cluster. In our solar system the plane of the ecliptic and that of the galaxy (as seen as the Milky Way) do not line up at all.
I think you can't say that.. what you currently see in the client is the 'frozen' state of the orbits of the planets and those happen to be in a horizontal plane that your ship also adjusts to all the time (how realistic :-))
If you'd check out solar maps and the orbits of the planets then you'd see that they aren't aligned with the 'plane of the star cluster'.. funny thing is, we don't even know how the plane of that warped-disk of a small amount of stars (New Eden) is orientated vs. the whole galaxies plane..
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Tres Farmer
Gallente Federation Intelligence Service
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Posted - 2012.07.13 19:00:00 -
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Kievan Arakyd wrote:Tres Farmer wrote:It is believed that elliptical or irregular galaxies can't bear life, as the orbits of the stars in them are disturbing the orbits of planets around said stars - so I'd rule this one out as a draft for New Eden.
Milkyway is a bar-spiral galaxy and as the sun (and it's planets) are out of harms way (no supernovae in the vicinity, etc..) it can bear life (undisturbed time-spans are important here, billions of years).
*snip* Without supernovae life wouldnt be possible at all......
True.. I think they still have no real clue how it was possible for our star (and it's orbiting bodies) to end up with so much supernova-end-product (elements above iron) so far from the core of the galaxy in a stable orbit around the SMBH and in such a 'quiet' area of space (no supernovae within some LY and last billion years). |
Tres Farmer
Gallente Federation Intelligence Service
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Posted - 2012.07.13 19:17:00 -
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Lilliana Stelles wrote:IHaveCandyGetInTheVan69 wrote:Ivan Rochenkov wrote:*sinp*
That is actually a great explanation. I never thought of the stars that exist but are not accessible by gate. Even within the bounds of our map there are stars not accessible by gate, like wormhole systems, these actually occupy the same space but for various reasons were never bridged to. We could occupy a relatively dense cluster but for whatever reasons only bridged to certain stars in that area, W-space is much more spread out than that. Black holes, quasars, all stuff tha would endanger the cluster if it were nearby. Not to mention, it's out of range of jump drives, so it's further than current jump technology would allow us to even build a stargate.
Na.. I have no first hand info why, but the w-space cluster technically has the same foot-print as the new eden cluster (similar volume, you can see that when you use the database dump and render the positions of the stars) and CCP probably chose the huge offset (coordinates) to avoid any *possible* hiccups with their mechanic system in regards to travel (jumpdrives). |
Tres Farmer
Gallente Federation Intelligence Service
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Posted - 2012.07.13 20:59:00 -
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Morwen Lagann wrote:TheBreadMuncher wrote:CCP FoxFour wrote:Keep in mind also that New Eden is just a cluster of stars in a galaxy. I believe New Eden is 106 light years long, 90 light years wide, and 25 light years thick. Compare that to the 100,000 light years the Milky Way is estimated to be across. If EVE was more like the milky way we'd have a damn sight fewer supercap blobs dropped on us You'd have a damn sight fewer hotdrops, period, unless they boosted jump drives' maximum range and efficiency.  *snip*
Problem then is travel time and finding other pods to play - with current game mechanics..  |
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