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Kromat Bogosh
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Posted - 2004.01.08 00:00:00 -
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I've just noticed that planets are rotating around their own axis.
Now, whether I had to many beers, or haven't noticed it b4.
Or is it a cool new eye candy? 
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Ezri
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Posted - 2004.01.08 00:04:00 -
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Edited by: Ezri on 08/01/2004 00:17:49
[Yep they do rotate. Not sure if they actually orbit their star though
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Kromat Bogosh
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Posted - 2004.01.08 00:14:00 -
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Is it a new feature?
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Viceroy
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Posted - 2004.01.08 00:16:00 -
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nope its been there for a long time.
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Taliah
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Posted - 2004.01.08 00:22:00 -
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I think you had too many beers o.0 I was drunk on new years and I saw little pieces of 'ore dust' I guess it was making patterns and random paths around the screen, tripped me straight out, had to stop mining.
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PussyCat
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Posted - 2004.01.08 00:39:00 -
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I remember that the jip planet att aunenen rotats. It makes u dizzy after a while.
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Seiun Darel
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Posted - 2004.01.08 02:01:00 -
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lol, all planets rotate, slow or fast, and have done since eeeeeeeeeaaaaarly beta. and frankly im sad that there isnt a orbit-around-sun feature, that would be great, the systems would always look "new", altough it'd have to be way slow, like a week or so for a "normal" planet to make a lap around the star.
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Asharee Intrefer
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Posted - 2004.01.08 03:02:00 -
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Too bad there can't be time compression in a persistent game. Back in "the days" I sometimes landed on a planet in First Encounters and watched StarDreamer accelerated sunrises over the alien world. Maybe the suns just were a few flat-shaded polygons, but the game had real orbits. 
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BH Latro
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Posted - 2004.01.08 03:38:00 -
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Actually the planets do rotate around the sun ie orbit it. If you ever had a static book mark in space you would notice that each day it is off by a few km from the gate, or point in space you made it near, this is because they do all orbit.
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Aturayd
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Posted - 2004.01.08 04:20:00 -
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i did an experiment to prove you wrong polaris person. I took screenies of a specific system namely Duripant with F11 map open. A month later, i took them again and the planets had not moved from their positions on that map. Either these planets will take years to orbit or that map doesnt change... or your wrong!
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Mr Popov
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Posted - 2004.01.08 04:55:00 -
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Edited by: Mr Popov on 08/01/2004 04:55:41
mabye they all rotate at the exact same rate, and the map automatically adjusts the rotation.
at any rate, you didn't try her experiment, so you really haven't disproved anything.
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Primer Xenius
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Posted - 2004.01.08 04:56:00 -
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hmmm....that makes a possible solution to the balancing of bookmarking.
See bookmarks can pass any blockade which is unfair. However if everything follow normal physics and the gates themselves orbited the star or planet, then the bookmarks would be off by a few km per day or week depending on the system. This would mean bookmarks are good for a limit time. I think thats a nice natural solution to balancing the priate camping and noob safetly via bookmarking.
One issue is container bases...don't want to lose those in a hurry. So I would not apply that to them..perhaps one much find space zero gravity points to put them in so bookmarks don't move. hmm..
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Basalt Taglietelli
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Posted - 2004.01.08 05:44:00 -
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I dont think your container bases would all of a sudden start orbiting 125,000 km/sec around the sun because to anchor them, you have to be at a full stop. A real orbit system would be cool though, but theres alot of things that would be cool that arent needed. Bug fixes and a real storyline would be the coolest, and those are needed.
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Slithereen
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Posted - 2004.01.08 05:50:00 -
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I think its the whole grid that rotates in orbit around the sun. That means everything from roids to cans and bookmarks, turn with it too.
I know that belts gradually change in position after a while, so you know they orbit.
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CCP Hammerhead
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Posted - 2004.01.08 06:01:00 -
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BH aren't supposed to post on the forums. Especially when they are wrong 
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GM Arkanon
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Posted - 2004.01.08 07:21:00 -
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They do rotate though 
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Mr nStuff
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Posted - 2004.01.08 09:10:00 -
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Shouldn't the bookmarks be in orbit as well? Or wouldn't they spiral into the planet or sun if they weren't in orbit?
Dunno.. Guess not since they don't have mass. But maybe you onboard computer would be smart enough to compensate.
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ShyLion
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Posted - 2004.01.08 09:34:00 -
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I have asked support that question and they answered positively
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Eldariel
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Posted - 2004.01.08 10:28:00 -
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If there are genuine orbital cycles in the systems, I wonder if the fully zoomed system maps dynamically reflect these orbital cycles...
... now that would be detail above and beyond the call of duty 
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Gilbert
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Posted - 2004.01.08 10:47:00 -
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Whay about changing the textures of the planets so one could acually see Cities at night and stuff...
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Eldariel
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Posted - 2004.01.08 10:55:00 -
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Actually two textures would be cool - one for the planet surface and then an overlay for the environmentals (clouds etc)
Environmental texture could obviously rotate at a different rate/ angle to the surface textures
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Bad Harlequin
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Posted - 2004.01.08 13:40:00 -
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Edited by: Bad Harlequin on 08/01/2004 13:42:32
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They do rotate though
rotate yes, but now we're talking revolve....
edit: see the cities "at night?" You're in SPACE... 
if you could make a texture that showed "normal" planetsurface when lit be a source directly, and pinpoint-glows when unlit, that would be cool... but to borrow a phrase from above, detail above and beyond.
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Jarjar
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Posted - 2004.01.08 13:57:00 -
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Quote:
edit: see the cities "at night?" You're in SPACE...
There's still night at one side of the planet, and you can still be at that side.
Duh?
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Moph
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Posted - 2004.01.08 15:04:00 -
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Actually two textures would be cool - one for the planet surface and then an overlay for the environmentals (clouds etc)
Environmental texture could obviously rotate at a different rate/ angle to the surface textures
agree.. asked for this once as mine feature request, during beta. as you see it won't be implemented.
btw. Moons look ugly (very low res).. sometimes this happens to planets too.
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Bartholomew Sharp
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Posted - 2004.01.08 15:45:00 -
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I remember that the jip planet att aunenen rotats. It makes u dizzy after a while.
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Bad Harlequin
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Posted - 2004.01.08 20:42:00 -
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Quote:
Quote:
edit: see the cities "at night?" You're in SPACE...
There's still night at one side of the planet, and you can still be at that side.
Duh?
Therefore, read the line directly after what you quote.
Oink?
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Ris Dnalor
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Posted - 2004.01.09 03:35:00 -
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the "orbital" items of a system, really should, in my opinion, "orbit" the star. I realize that it wouldn't affect gameplay tremendously, but it's a realism that would be appreciated. by me at least.
Also, there should be sufficient cartographic techonology that each location in a system should have a three dimensional coordinate. Perhaps a module that would allow you to see this coordinate, although I'd think your standard nav computer would be able to supply you with this information.
additionally, you should be able to set a warp destination by this coordinate system, without the use of bookmarks.... ie.. if you were at (1,0,0) presumably near the star, you could set a small warp jump to arrive at (-1,0,0)... the same distance on the opposing 'side' of the star.
Perhaps doing this sort of thign would require mastery of an advanced navigational skill & perhaps other skills as well, but the ability to do so should exist.
The scale of the coordinate system wouldn't matter specifically, perhaps there should be 2 sets of coordinate systems. 1 being based with a unit-size equall the smallest distance one can warp... then within each of those cubes of space, a subset of coordinate systems could be used for non-warp navigation & destination setting.
in any case, it would be a departure from the point-n-click / bookmark-only system we have now, & I believe it'd be a worthy endeavor.
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Reverend Necrona
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Posted - 2004.01.09 03:49:00 -
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I'd loved to some of the beer your drinking if its giving u visuals :p
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Mr Popov
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Posted - 2004.01.09 05:12:00 -
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It would be cool to see planets with different axes. IE. how Uranus rotates on a 90 degree angle to most other planets.
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Lomex
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Posted - 2004.01.09 09:36:00 -
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Given that GM and BH's (sorry not sure what a BH is, except that ONE of them is wrong :D) are answering this question. They might like to answer these puzzlers.
How come an anchored can cluster in space and the accompaning bookmark don't drift apart. Or do bookmarks also shift with the orbit drift (given the absolute XYZ reference of 'free' bookmarks, I find that hard to believe).
How can a ship that was left in space (at said same can cluster) have shifted well over 14au's from that point in a single day (it didn't move the day before).
Even if thats a weekly orbit drift calculation, its WAY off.
Oh and GM Abraxus rocks for finding my ship, where ever it had floated to.
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