Do the planets in the Sol system need realigning?

Armante

Armante
So I made the pilgrimage to the Sol system a while back, and I really liked it. There was something a bit special about seeing all our familiar planets, even just the names lined up in the navigation menu. It felt like home :)

I flew around Earth a few times to check it out when I noticed something though; The parts of Earth exposed to the sun did not match my own day/night phase. Not a huge deal, you would think. However I was looking at Europe and Africa during my morning, and North and South America in my evening. Now I live in New Zealand, and I've yet to see the Asian region and Australia and New Zealand, because I don't fancy the idea of having to play at 3 or 4am!

What does everyone else think? Have other Commanders, living in Europe and America, seen their own countries at a reasonable time? Do the planet day/night phases need to be adjusted a few hours maybe?
 

Xantasia

X
I have read and re read your post and have to make a confession, apart from daylight saving time changes i have never been outside of GMT and thought the folowing

As i understand different time zones like a 2 yr old getting to grips with nuclear physics i am probably not the best person to quote, but i guess the game is based on UCT time (GMT but not allowed to be called it ) then if i want to chat to someone @ 6 am GMT who lives in California it should be 1 am. so should be dark in both time zones.

But then i thought if you are playing in Daylight where ever you are then that should be the same in game experience for you.......

And then i thought the year is 3300 so who knows but yes i guess it would be nice to be able to see your R/L continent in game in daylight.

So as i said dont quote me :)
 

darkcyd

Banned
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Armante said:
So I made the pilgrimage to the Sol system a while back, and I really liked it. There was something a bit special about seeing all our familiar planets, even just the names lined up in the navigation menu. It felt like home :)

I flew around Earth a few times to check it out when I noticed something though; The parts of Earth exposed to the sun did not match my own day/night phase. Not a huge deal, you would think. However I was looking at Europe and Africa during my morning, and North and South America in my evening. Now I live in New Zealand, and I've yet to see the Asian region and Australia and New Zealand, because I don't fancy the idea of having to play at 3 or 4am!

What does everyone else think? Have other Commanders, living in Europe and America, seen their own countries at a reasonable time? Do the planet day/night phases need to be adjusted a few hours maybe?
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The game is a couple hundred years in the future. I am unsure why you feel like it should be perfectly aligned with the current time given this?
 

Armante

Armante
darkcyd said:
The game is a couple hundred years in the future. I am unsure why you feel like it should be perfectly aligned with the current time given this?
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Fair enough I suppose. I wonder though, if you live in Europe or the US, do you get to see the part of Earth you live on in a matching fashion?

If everybody logged in around the world is playing and looking at Earth at the same time, regardless of where they live, who gets to see their country?
 

Flavio

F
I know what you mean as I logged in just after sunset and thought, oh no I am not going to be able to see Europe as it will be all black but it was bathed in sunshine which I thought was strange (looked like morning) so yes, I would like them to rotate the globe slightly so that it is in synch with what we have here.

Has someone tried to leave their ship facing Earth to see how long it actually takes the planet to spin once on its axis as I do believe that it is slowing down slightly and that could account for the slight shift in what we are actually seeing ie no jump seconds to be taken into account like the ones we have had recently (last 25 years am sure a couple of seconds have been missed )
 

insanephoton

insanephoton
darkcyd said:
The game is a couple hundred years in the future. I am unsure why you feel like it should be perfectly aligned with the current time given this?
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The game is set in 3300, my primitive calculations suggest that it's a bit more than a couple of hundred years. 1286 if you want it exactly.

As to the OP, I did briefly check out Earth the other night. The UK was on the lit side at the time , but it must have been something like 2 am GMT, as you can imagine it was dark outside in reality. I can see the point that you're making. I know the Earth is slowing slightly but I don't think it's a big enough factor to be so out of kilter with current time zones in the time period we're talking about. If we assume that we lose a second a year, that's only a little over 20 minutes from current time zones.
 

OxKing

OxKing
I strongly belive the game would use the server time instead of your PCs time. Otherwise it would be impossible for other players seeing the same things an for everybody the positions of the stations would be different.

And so, for all people the earth would be lit the same. It dosen't matter in what time Zone youre in, its just where you look at.
 

MoldyCrow

M
OxKing said:
I strongly belive the game would use the server time instead of your PCs time. Otherwise it would be impossible for other players seeing the same things an for everybody the positions of the stations would be different.

And so, for all people the earth would be lit the same. It dosen't matter in what time Zone youre in, its just where you look at.
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Time zones don't really work the way you seem to think. The server uses GMT, you PC uses whatever time zone you're in. 11:00 PM EST is the exact same time as 4:00AM GMT, just a different time of day. It wouldn't matter if you base it on server time, or any other time zone. It would be the same. Just because it's night in London, doesn't mean the whole world is dark.
 
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AH_ImADot

AH_ImADot
Do you really think the devs will try to sync the Earth's (or any other planet's) rotation/revolution to match real-world time of day and time of year? What about Omicron Persei 8? I demand that they push back the release date until all astronomical data is perfectly in sync with the real universe.

:p
 

MoldyCrow

M
AH_ImADot said:
Do you really think the devs will try to sync the Earth's (or any other planet's) rotation/revolution to match real-world time of day and time of year? What about Omicron Persei 8? I demand that they push back the release date until all astronomical data is perfectly in sync with the real universe.

:p
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The devs will be sure to get right on it when Lrrr comes to complain about it in 1000 years.
 

OxKing

OxKing
MoldyCrow said:
Time zones don't really work the way you seem to think. The server uses GMT, you PC uses whatever time zone you're in. 11:00 PM EST is the exact same time as 4:00AM GMT, just a different time of day. It wouldn't matter if you base it on server time, or any other time zone. It would be the same. Just because it's night in London, doesn't mean the whole world is dark.
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No, i get that, but the OP seems not.
I wanted to point it out like you did, but it seems i failed.
It was a bad idea to wrote from the phone when i was already in my bed. ;)
The thing is, the game uses UTC in the Station Screen. And for all players the terminator should be on the same location of the planet.
But i better stop writing, because i almost fell asleep again. ;)

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Lestat said:
The thing I found that was off was the Moon. It seems a little too far or too small.
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This could be an optical illusion (standing on the ground watching the moon above a house it looks larger)
or a result of a wide viewing angle on your graphics settings. Because i don't think they will mess that kind of things up,
as the numbers are widely known and easy entered in such a game.
 

metatheurgist

metatheurgist
After a couple of thousands light years the orbits will start to develop a wobble. Just get your mechanic to do a re-alignment (it's usually free) and you'll be fine till the next service. :)
 

Armante

Armante
OxKing said:
No, i get that, but the OP seems not.
I wanted to point it out like you did, but it seems i failed.
It was a bad idea to wrote from the phone when i was already in my bed. ;)
The thing is, the game uses UTC in the Station Screen. And for all players the terminator should be on the same location of the planet.
But i better stop writing, because i almost fell asleep again. ;)
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Yeah I do get it, thanks :) Just writing straight out of my head when I posted.

It does all add up when I re-read everyone's posts and experiences. I guess most of the target audience would be UK- and Europe-based, so it makes sense to work it around that. I'd quite like to know the number spread around the globe, actually. See how many fans there are in Australasia :)
 
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