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Avigrace

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Braben emphasized that no player could ever travel the entirety of this game and visit every planet. "There are 400 billion stars, and each one has planets," he said.


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Ayo

Ayo
Avigrace said:
Braben emphasized that no player could ever travel the entirety of this game and visit every planet. "There are 400 billion stars, and each one has planets," he said.


Is this right?
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I think he might be wrong. I would imagine SOME of those stars don't have planets.
 

tooterfish

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Avigrace said:
Braben emphasized that no player could ever travel the entirety of this game and visit every planet. "There are 400 billion stars, and each one has planets," he said.


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Are you incredulous as to the amount of star systems in the game, or about the ability of a single player to visit them all?

Yes there are 400 billion systems. No, you won't be able to visit them all (do the math, as our American chums say).

Well, if you played the game non-stop for a million years you might be able to... and you never know, Star Citizen might even be out by then!
 

Sterlino

Sterlino
extract for the massively site article said:
While at one new station, which happens to be located in a new system, players are above the dust of our galaxy and able to see multiple galaxies clearly in the distance.
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WUT ?? o_O

honestly i can't belive it completely.
is this confirmed ?
 
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Vargur

Vargur
Michael Brookes said:
Not all stars have planets, but then again not all planets have suns either :)

Michael
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Hurray, rogue planets.
I wonder how we will discover them though as they most likely roam in interstellar space where noone really goes since we jump in hyperspace from system to system, and would take hours or days to reach in supercruise.
 

Crayfish

Crayfish
Ayo said:
Is that the first ever confirmation of rogue planets???
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This could be the start of an ongoing myth along the lines of space dredgers and colony ships. We know they are probably out there, but how to find them?

The full quote from that article has further interest:

While at one new station, which happens to be located in a new system, players are above the dust of our galaxy and able to see multiple galaxies clearly in the distance.
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I wonder if there is a nice view of the disk of the Milky Way from this star system on the edge of the galaxy?
 

Ayo

Ayo
Vargur said:
Hurray, rogue planets.
I wonder how we will discover them though as they most likely roam in interstellar space where noone really goes since we jump in hyperspace, and would take hours or days to reach in supercruise.
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I imagine that locking on to a planet sized mass that is far enough away from any stars and hyper spacing to it will be possible.

The explanation for not being able to do that with planets orbiting stars would be related to 'mass locking'
 

Ulysses_W

Ulysses_W
So... if there are to be rogue planets how will we navigate to them? Will they be listed in the galaxy map? (I do hope not).

Thoughts & ideas welcomed.
 

Vargur

Vargur
Ayo said:
I imagine that locking on to a planet sized mass that is far enough away from any stars and hyper spacing to it will be possible.

The explanation for not being able to do that with planets orbiting stars would be related to 'mass locking'
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Yes going there after being discovered and integrated into the starmap would obviously be by hypespace jump.
But you have to discover them first before you can lock on to them.
 

Ayo

Ayo
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