Moons?
- Thread starter Nuarda
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So FD have gone to the trouble of emulating the galaxy to extreme detail with 400 billion systems, including our own, but decided to leave out the moons.
What do you think?
What do you think?
They orbit around planets. Planets are the balls that orbit around stars. Stars are the big bright thingies.
They orbiting around planets. Planets are the balls that orbit around stars. Stars are the big bright thingies.
Oh very funny!
They are all over the place...currently I'm at Hathor in the Dahan system. That gas giant has 5 moons around it for example.
Not funny, the god's honest truth.
Go to Wyrd, the planet the station orbits has a moon.
There are also many others in other systems that are distinct.
There are currently many many moons in current systems.
For example a lot of planets where Station is orbiting, also has a moon. For example Chi Herculis, Magec, Ovid etc etc.
My own old screenshot i took at the start of Beta 1. Planet, moon and station:
i think that the reaction of Nuarda is normal...
the problem is that there is no an 'in system map' that let you see the various planets and moons.
With only the galaxy map you cannot realize the right configuration of the star system until you go by yourself near this or that planet.
Btw the ''in system map'' is confirmed and soon or later it will appear in game.
the problem is that there is no an 'in system map' that let you see the various planets and moons.
With only the galaxy map you cannot realize the right configuration of the star system until you go by yourself near this or that planet.
Btw the ''in system map'' is confirmed and soon or later it will appear in game.
To be fair there aren't that many moons in the Beta, especially around the large gas giants.
In our own solar system Jupiter has 67 moons, and Saturn, 62. OK, some of those moons aren't very large, but its still a lot more than around gas giants in game at present. Part of the problem may be the list we are selecting nav objects from is only a single limited layer at present. If it were hierarchical (i.e. Stars -> Planets -> Moons and Stations) we'd get more objects in I suppose?
Another thing that bugs me (though has been described as a feature of the Stellar Forge) is the number of dual bodies - terrestrial or rocky planets with large moons in very close orbit - just looks wrong. I'd imagine the tides on such worlds as pretty scary.
In our own solar system Jupiter has 67 moons, and Saturn, 62. OK, some of those moons aren't very large, but its still a lot more than around gas giants in game at present. Part of the problem may be the list we are selecting nav objects from is only a single limited layer at present. If it were hierarchical (i.e. Stars -> Planets -> Moons and Stations) we'd get more objects in I suppose?
Another thing that bugs me (though has been described as a feature of the Stellar Forge) is the number of dual bodies - terrestrial or rocky planets with large moons in very close orbit - just looks wrong. I'd imagine the tides on such worlds as pretty scary.
I didn't mean to offend, I'm just a very sarcastic person, my apologies.
Gotta disagree. Anyone with a basic understanding of astronomy should've worked out that many of the stations are anchored to moons. You arrive at the sun in a system, you fly to a planet around the sun, when you approach the station you are headed to a body orbiting the planet, not the planet itself. That's the definition of moon. The only way to be confused would be to not know what a moon was.
Moons:
http://firstgreatexpedition.org/FGEmj/index.php?title=Category:Moons
This lists the moons from about 6 systems in standard beta.
Please note that the wiki is being restructured at the moment. so many links are broken, but those on the linked page above all work.
http://firstgreatexpedition.org/FGEmj/index.php?title=Category:Moons
This lists the moons from about 6 systems in standard beta.
Please note that the wiki is being restructured at the moment. so many links are broken, but those on the linked page above all work.