Ghost rings?

roboteconomist

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Anybody ever run into a situation where the system says there is a ring system around a planet that doesn't actually appear in the world? I just ran into this:

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The 'B' ring around this gas giant should be pretty substantial -- with the two closest moons sandwiched between it and the 'A' ring. When I flew over to it, there was nothing. Here is a shot from my cockpit, looking at the ring system edge-on, right in the middle of where the 'B' ring should be:

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Bizarre.
 

Redfox

Redfox
roboteconomist said:
Anybody ever run into a situation where the system says there is a ring system around a planet that doesn't actually appear in the world? I just ran into this:

The 'B' ring around this gas giant should be pretty substantial -- with the two closest moons sandwiched between it and the 'A' ring. When I flew over to it, there was nothing. Here is a shot from my cockpit, looking at the ring system edge-on, right in the middle of where the 'B' ring should be:

Bizarre.
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In general: Yes, I've had cases where the ring was only basely visible, and even that only against a suitably contrasted background.

In this case: My maths have become quite rusty, but... the B ring has only 1/40th of A ring's mass, but is spead across 15x its width (and many times more surface area); so I'd guesstimate that it really might be quite feeble. Did you try flying through the area it should be, so see if you drop out? Or maybe re-position yourself in a way that the brightness of the galactic disc is behind the body?
 

Kalpa

Kalpa
Back in 1.0 or however the initial release was numbered we used to have truly invisible rings (they would still trigger collision and you would drop out of supercruise, but there was absolutely nothing there) - they were supposedly fixed a long time ago, though

Now, those just barely visible rings on the other hand are certainly still a thing.
 
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Pirin

Pirin
Had this many times. In some rare occasions the rings are barely visible but still visible if you chose the right angle and background. But in many other cases the rings are not only completely invisible, they just dont exist. I pass through the space where they should be, look from all kinds of angles - nothing. It seems those exist only as stats in system map.
 

JonathanBurnage

JonathanBurnage
In my example they should have been absolutely huge (~70ls from inner to outer edge). I flew around the star from many angles. If they were there I should have flown into them.
 

Dan Bender

Dan Bender
If the rings are thin enough they won't dump you into normalspace or even be visible. I noticed this in Prism, where there are even RES around a ring-less ringed planet, and the only objects there are the tiny little graphics-only rocks and a bunch of pirates who are clearly wasting their time. No ring-roids.
 

Shinji Ikari

Shinji Ikari
Pirin said:
Had this many times. In some rare occasions the rings are barely visible but still visible if you chose the right angle and background. But in many other cases the rings are not only completely invisible, they just dont exist. I pass through the space where they should be, look from all kinds of angles - nothing. It seems those exist only as stats in system map.
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Could it be because of their small size?
 

soddish

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Take a look at the mass, that B ring is much lighter than the A ring, despite being spread over a much larger area. It's there, but it'll be incredibly faint.
 
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