I love it when people say that this game is a simulation. Because what is simulated here from the real world? I dont know anything that works in real life like here in Elite Dangerous. Is it because your in a cockpit? Or that the Galaxy is kind of like our own?
I know only 1 space simulator which seems like it is a real simulator.
http://www.space-shuttle-mission.com/
Feel free to share your opinions, why ED is a simulation of reality.
From a recent interview.....
Today, Braben has returned to the game of his youth for a sequel, Elite: Dangerous. This time, he used astronomy rather than the Fibonacci sequence to arrange his galaxy. “I wanted to make the galaxy as accurate as possible so that the results of that exploration would make sense to people,” Braben said. “In the game, every single star in the real night sky is present, some hundred and fifty thousand of them, and you can visit each one. Even the clouds of stars that make up the Milky Way are included: some four hundred billion stars, their planetary systems, and moons are present, all waiting to be explored.”
The positions of the stars were drawn from the numerous publically available sky surveys, which Braben and his team at Frontier, the Cambridge-based game developer, collated and merged. They used procedural models based on physics to fill in gaps where data was missing or incomplete. “As you move farther from Earth, the data becomes increasingly sketchy, but the galaxy still runs by the same rules,” Braben said. “The hundred and fifty thousand star systems are taken from real-world data. But once you move beyond a few hundred light years we can only see the very brightest stars individually, so we use procedural techniques to augment the data.”
Floor van Leeuwen helps run the Gaia satellite project, which aims to chart a three-dimensional map of the Milky Way, at the Cambridge Institute of Astronomy. According to van Leeuwen, models of space such as those seen in Elite: Dangerous are crucial to expanding our understanding of the universe. “Computer simulations have played a very important role in astronomy for many decades,” he said. “The kind of problems encountered in astrophysics are almost always well outside what can be represented through simple clean equations.”
That my friend, it true simulation
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