Can we visit Earth and our solar system?

bowman9991

bowman9991
Had a look but couldn't find the answer. Will we be able to visit the solar system and Earth in particular in Elite: Dangerous? Has this been mentioned? Or will it be like Asimov's "Foundation" series, where Earth is a myth and you have to find out the exact location after many journeys and solving complex puzzles :p:smilie:
 

Jenner

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Jenner
bowman9991 said:
Had a look but couldn't find the answer. Will we be able to visit the solar system and Earth in particular in Elite: Dangerous? Has this been mentioned? Or will it be like Asimov's "Foundation" series, where Earth is a myth and you have to find out the exact location after many journeys and solving complex puzzles :p:smilie:
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I believe you can. If I recall this was mentioned in one of Frontier's Fiction Diaries on their YouTube channel. If I can find the specific one ill link to it.
 

Darren Grey

Darren Grey
Yes, you definitely can. Sol is the capital of the Federation. In both Frontier and First Encounters you could visit Earth easily and land anywhere you liked.
 

Hamerstein

Hamerstein
It's specifically mentioned by in one of the Dev diaries in relation to procedurally generated systems. It's specified that the Sol system is an exception - it will be crafted so it is an accurate representation of our home system rather than left to the coding to generate.
 

Penthux

Penthux
Darren Grey said:
Yes, you definitely can. Sol is the capital of the Federation. In both Frontier and First Encounters you could visit Earth easily and land anywhere you liked.
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Earth is apparently a playground for the rich an famous now. The government and administration is now based on Mars. Whether Earth is still as accessible as it used to be is unclear but I don't see any reasons why it shouldn't be. :smilie:
 

Ryuto

Ryuto
Yep! Our Solar System, local solar systems, everything. In Elite: Dangerous the 'known' systems to science will be generated as far as knowledge will allow. The rest of the galaxy will be procedurally generated.
 

dannysquid

dannysquid
I'm assuming that Earth will look rather different in the future. This would get round the problem of people wanting to visit an accurately-modelled Doncaster city centre when the landing-on-planets expansion appears. :smilie:
 

Cosmo Bozo

Cosmo Bozo
dannysquid said:
I'm assuming that Earth will look rather different in the future. This would get round the problem of people wanting to visit an accurately-modelled Doncaster city centre when the landing-on-planets expansion appears. :smilie:
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It's not doncaster city centre I'm bothered about..... it's stuff like the grand canyon or everest.... the topography needs to be right.. at least to flight sim levels of realism.
Otherwise the forums will be inundated with people pointing out errors..
 

Erimus Kamzel

Erimus Kamzel
Cosmo Bozo said:
It's not doncaster city centre I'm bothered about..... it's stuff like the grand canyon or everest.... the topography needs to be right.. at least to flight sim levels of realism.
Otherwise the forums will be inundated with people pointing out errors..
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For this reason I have a feeling 99% of Earth will be off-limits. A no-fly-no-landing zone "for ecology reasons". We'll probably be limited to low orbit flybys where we can't see too much detail, and only be allowed to land in a limited few selected landing pads near major cities if we really want to go Earth-side.

Any other planet or moon throughout the galaxy FD will have creative license over, but Earth is the exception due to the immense amount of accurate detail they'd have to add. So I'm not sure it'd be worth it to be honest when there are 400 billion more systems out there. To avoid having to put so much time and effort into one planet amongst trillions, a restriction maybe something we'll have to deal with. Maybe, who knows? :S
 
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Erimus Kamzel

Erimus Kamzel
dannysquid said:
I'm assuming that Earth will look rather different in the future. This would get round the problem of people wanting to visit an accurately-modelled Doncaster city centre when the landing-on-planets expansion appears. :smilie:
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Just like now, even people in the future won't want to visit Doncaster. So FD needn't worry too much about it :D
 

Patrick_68000

Patrick_68000
I remember in Frontier Elite II in the Sol system, the capital of the federation, I liked to do my shopping. There were a lot of things and also a large shipyards. After a series of journeys across the galaxy, I always had a twinge of sadness when I came back in the Sol system. I think that in Elite Dangerous, it will be the same. But the landscape should be much more detailed and magnificent
 

Erimus Kamzel

Erimus Kamzel
Patrick_68000 said:
So perhaps we will see it nearby of Proxima Centauri

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You'll need a Moray Starboat to find it as it'll probably end its days like Mir did - at the bottom of the Pacific ocean!

Would be cool if FD have some relics from our past floating around space though. The Voyager craft could be something for an explorer to find, maybe via a mission?
 
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