Proposal Discussion GALA mapping We need Frontier to delay by a year!

Patrick_68000

Patrick_68000
That can be the object of an update with a recalculation of all the positions of planets, and the data of the players relative to the new positions of planets. A powerful algorithm could make it. It would be funny to see the head of a player who accepted a mission in 25 years light and after change of the positions, has to make in 40 years lights, by benefiting from an extension of the deadline of the mission. I am delirious...

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Patrick_68000

Patrick_68000
I believe that Michael had said once that the galaxy is procedurally generated, there will be no major changes. Only some remote and unexplored planets could be changed. But in civilized worlds, certainly not because the changes affect all game data
 

izzy

izzy
FoxTwo said:
Well since the "Online" part is the evolving universe, ED can easily incorporate new data as they are being discovered and verified. People who play SP Offline could ocassionally come online to play in SP Online mode and get the updates, right?
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That is the plan :)
There is no need to delay Elite :D
 

rgb_astro

rgb_astro
And at the rate of mapping 1 billion stars a year, that would delay ED's launch for quite some time. Some of us might not live to that day :)) even at increasing rate of mapping.
 

Patrick_68000

Patrick_68000
For the little story: The accuracy of measurements will reach 7 microseconds of arc (the arc is a subunit of the degree) for the brightest stars. That is to say that Gaia will be able to distinguish one hair at 700 kilometers of away, particularly through its gigantic focal plane of a billion pixels.
 

resonic

resonic
How accurate will the galaxy be? How about Gaia's data of galaxy mapping?

Hello ED developers!
How scientific accurate will the galaxy in ED actually be?

I thought about this while the GAIA spacecraft is now beeing launched and its mission is to map the galaxy: http://www.space.com/24015-gaia-spacecraft-launch-thursday-watch-live.html
Result is said to be the most accurate 3D map of our galaxy.

So wouldnt it make sense to use the data of the GAIA spacecraft as a base for the galaxy layout someday? The individual star systems and their look could then be created by the engine. Most important part would just be the position of each star system in the galaxy.
 

Alpha Protocol

Alpha Protocol
Imagine the outcry if this information reaches the public's attention. Our stars just simply aren't perfect :eek:

I say if DB wants to add a later date, I'm all for it. I don't see a delay being realistic though :D
 

jedt

J
resonic said:
Hello ED developers!
How scientific accurate will the galaxy in ED actually be?

I thought about this while the GAIA spacecraft is now beeing launched and its mission is to map the galaxy: http://www.space.com/24015-gaia-spacecraft-launch-thursday-watch-live.html
Result is said to be the most accurate 3D map of our galaxy.

So wouldnt it make sense to use the data of the GAIA spacecraft as a base for the galaxy layout someday? The individual star systems and their look could then be created by the engine. Most important part would just be the position of each star system in the galaxy.
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given that gaia will take a while to generate that map perhaps it would be best if we just make do with an approximation.
 

Sir.Tj

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Sir.Tj
Threads merged and I've edited the title a little bit. :)
 

jan

jan
No delay needed come back in 15 years for Elite 5 , oh wait the Gaia data is outdated, the next probe <insert name> is more accurate. Basically its impossible to keep all the stars position accurate since the Milkyway never stop turning and the positions of millions of starts is slightly different than last time measured. Its basically impossible and impractical and not worth the effort from a game perspective.
 

Dr Wookie

Dr Wookie
No waiting!
Gaia may be launching in 2015 but the first planned data release is either 2018 or 2020 (can't remember which).
 

resonic

resonic
Well a major "real universe" update would be interesting some day ;)

Or maybe some modder might be able to rearrange the star system positions based on the GAIA data some day.
 

chris5281

C
Dr Wookie said:
No waiting!
Gaia may be launching in 2015 but the first planned data release is either 2018 or 2020 (can't remember which).
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Launch was this morning, but it's going to take about 6 months to get to L2 before the survey begins. I believe the final catalogue will be released around ~2020 but there will be interim releases before then. However, the interim data releases will be mostly information on transients, variability, radial velocities etc. which is not relevant to the discussion here. There will be some astrometric information released in the interim releases but of course the nature of astrometry means that these initial determinations will improve as the mission progresses.
 
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