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Kansha
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Posted - 2007.12.03 21:27:00 -
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Acedemic question: Are planet's orbits modeled in EVE? That is, do they actually move around their stars or do they just stay put?
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Matalino
Gallente
Ki Tech Industries
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Posted - 2007.12.03 21:31:00 -
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They just stay put.
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Helen Hunts
Gallente
Red Dragon Mining inc
Red Dragon Industries
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Posted - 2007.12.03 21:34:00 -
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Currently, everything is static - no motion. It's a lot easier keeping track of objects, Bookmarks and structures if nothing moves. It would be...inconvenient... to suddeenly discover that all your prime bookmarks are now worthless just because the moons/belts/planets all moved out from under your bookmarks.
Oh, and there'd be some load on the servers and a longer DownTime to calculate, as well as updating the clients daily.... but who cares about that
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Asestorian
Domination.
Cult of War
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Posted - 2007.12.03 21:43:00 -
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Someone asked about this at the FanFest and the Devs said that initially they did move around, but they removed it because they couldn't find any reason to keep it like that as it didn't add anything to the gameplay.
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F'nog
Amarr
Celestial Horizon Corp.
Valainaloce
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Posted - 2007.12.04 04:25:00 -
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 Originally by: Helen Hunts
Currently, everything is static - no motion. It's a lot easier keeping track of objects, Bookmarks and structures if nothing moves. It would be...inconvenient... to suddeenly discover that all your prime bookmarks are now worthless just because the moons/belts/planets all moved out from under your bookmarks.
This could be solved by making all BMs relative to their nearest celestial body, either a planet or the star, or for belts or stations in those cases, either in the grid for small objects or around the planet, or just in the system for things like safe spots, and the axis of the galaxy. So if you made a BM at X degrees off of galactic north and Y distance from the nearest body, it would always be at that position relative to the body.
But there's not too much need for it, really. Sure it would be more realistic if everything moved, but I'm okay that they don't.
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Torso Errata
Minmatar
Free Traders
Free Trade Syndicate
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Posted - 2007.12.06 05:00:00 -
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You'll find also that while the moons do rotate, they spin with surface velocities greater than the escape velocity of any moon in our Solar System. Where they real, their centrifugal motion would tear them apart.
Don't expect accurate celestial dynamics while you're regularly warping at 150 to 400 times the speed of light.
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Jacob Mei
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Posted - 2007.12.06 06:01:00 -
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If you have looked at some of the years it takes for a planet to orbit its star it really is laughable and really just eats up processing power to keep track of it. I would imagine for some instances it would be rather interesting but for the most case it would just be a waste of power.
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