If we're doing this then I have aswellAt this stage I have actually released more games than CIG.
Game Discussions Star Citizen Discussion Thread v12
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They actually do. Planets rotate, the skybox isn't static at all. However, they do not orbit eachother but there are gravity wells. Adding onto that, the system also has lagrange points with stations and gas clouds.
Okay, so planets themselves do spin, rather than the skybox spinning. Do different planets spin at different rates?
I could live without planets orbiting the sun, since one would have to play a long time to really notice it (though if you can see planets in the sky as "wanderers", then it such motion could be measured every day). Moons not orbiting planets.... Still, true planet rotation is better than a spinning skybox I guess.
The planets spin. They do not orbit. There are no orbital mechanics. I assume CR said at some point there would be, but backers probably need to pledge a few hundred more million for that to happen. Its probably still Tier 0.
Oh look, magic tech that will fix a bunch of woes requires another bunch of tech doing first.
Now, where have we heard that before....
Look at the content locust! You can't expect orbital mechanics in the most fidelitous space game ever. Anyway, its early days. And you can be sure once they do add orbital mechanics it will be lots better than the orbital mechanics in a certain other game!
It is magic tech if you don't understand what it does... you see you've been rambling about this magic tech forever, but it is tech in a line of magic tech, for example, physics grids was also magic tech that "are impossible to be done" (Quoting Mr Smart here), but I don't think you know that certain features in a game require prerequisites.
Somebody told me I should just quit Elite, but until another game comes along and gives me proper orbit mechanics, Elite has leverage on me. I could totally live with a single solar system, but I want it to be a system, with proper orbit mechanics, seasons, planets moving across the heavens, eclipses, etc.
But seeing the stars and planets move through the sky at night would be something I don't get in NMS or SE, so I'll give Star Citizen credit for at least getting things half right.
Yes, also variable gravity, weather that actually affects your character and so on.
I mean apart from the actual orbital mechanics which may or not be added sometime once they get quantum travelling to do blind jumps again, SC's planettech is something to behold, they're working on adding seasons, rivers and so on. There's already oceans, forests, lush areas, icy areas, deserts, and a fully explorable gas giant you can fly into in the game.
Oh dear... you do understand we call it magic tech not because some of us do or don't understand it. We call it that because of how CIG present it "never been done before". Take subsumption and quanta. Been done a million times before, on both the macro and micro scale, but only CIG would give them fancy names and present it likes its never been done before.
Can a ship go into a proper orbit, or is this fake variable gravity like Space Engineers provides?
Not that I'm looking for KSP in Star Citizen, mind you.
Kerbal?
KSP and this year (fingers crossed) KSP 2. First thing that comes to mind. You have a complete orbital mechanics simulation (with patched conics, if you really want the nitty gritty).
It's fake gravity, as you dont have any kind of orbital mechanics, but you can kind of orbit a planet with all engines off if you reach the proper velocity (which is really low, as a result of having fake physics). So yay for orbit, nay for proper physics.
How can they have seasons without solar orbits?
ED has variable gravity. No weather yet though.
Weather in SC does affect ships... like the wind blows them away!
I believe you can do that yeah, but it's apparently pretty difficult to do. Back when there was this testing planet (their first test of a city on a planet) in the system, which was basically a large torn apart asteroid, you could very easily go into orbit with your ship. But it's not an officially gameplay supported mechanic.
When KSP gives me space combat, then it might replace Elite. I was also going to comment on graphic quality, but the videos for KSP 2 look pretty amazing, actually.
Well that's not in the game yet, so perhaps they'll add solar orbits along when they do that. It's just something they demonstrated on a citizencon panel on planets last year.