Accuracy of the galaxy?

Unifex

Unifex
I have a few thoughts around this but before I dive in with them does anyone know if there are any posts or blogs that talk about how accurate the galaxy map is? I've been lead to believe that many stars that we know about are actually accurately positioned in the game. My Google-fu is failing me though.

Does anyone have any links to developer posts about this sort of thing?

Cheers,
CMDR Unifex
Somewhere between the Eagle Nebula and Sag A*
 

Hellhawk666

Hellhawk666
^^^
This.

Any stars you see in the galmap that have catalogue names (HIP etc) are real-world, and in more or less accurate positions. The stars with names like "XYZ Sector ABC-123" and so on are procedural. The actual stellar systems themselves are all procedural, created by the Stellar Forge. Without trying to be a precision instrument, it's as accurate as it needs to be for the game to feel realistic.
 
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Araviel

Araviel
Don Alvarez said:
I think I read somewhere there are 150k systems based on real astronomical data. The rest is procedurally generated.
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yes that is correct, and at the time they started making the elite galaxy i think that was about as many stars we had accurate data off in the real world.
however late last year a new map came out that has 219 million stars mapped (took astronomers 10 years to produce that), so guess we can't call it very accurate today.
but i still think 150k is a impressive number, and 219 million mapped stars out of the estimated 400 billion we could hardly call very accurate either ;)
 
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