Not one Comet in the entire Milky Way Galaxy.....
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Pareco. And there are a few others.
Just sayin'
Just sayin'
There's no chocolate either, or cookies 
I'd like to see accretion discs, can't remember the last time I bothered to drop into an asteroid cluster & I'm not sure I'd drop into a comet after the novelty of the first or second one.
Lots of stuff that could be added though, something for everyone
I'd like to see accretion discs, can't remember the last time I bothered to drop into an asteroid cluster & I'm not sure I'd drop into a comet after the novelty of the first or second one.
Lots of stuff that could be added though, something for everyone
While I know what this means (location and spawn algorithm for comets probably exists), this is one of the most unintentionally hilarious excuse for not having something in the game... I mean, not visible in the game.
Bit late as they have all been broken up and strip mined for Tritium already !
Well to be fair I think it is not as simple as people might think. Do you model the tails, do you make the tails respond to position in the cometary orbit for example? I mean it would be naff to have a comet with a tail pointing AT the sun or just as big at aphelion as at perihelion etc. So it makes the computation a lot more than just positional data.
I'm under no impression that it is easy to do comets. It's just that usually game devs don't say that something is already in a game if there's an invisible placeholder for them.
You make it sound like they've boasted they have comets in the game. As far as I know they were included in the galaxy simulation but work wasn't then done to add the graphics for them, or any other content or markers in game for them. They are just invisibly there as part of the stellar forge.
Most players have no idea they are there, as ... fdev DON'T actually say they are in the game.
Can you provide an evidence?They're in game.
FDEV just hasn't come around to making 'em visible, or NAV targets.
im heading there to take a look, thanks
halley comet has a period of 75 years. The next time it will be enought near the sun to have a tail will be in 2061. By the time ED is set, the comet will be 35 years from its perihelion, so no, you can't se Halley tail in 3306.
Just saying
There's no chocolate either, or cookies
I'd like to see accretion discs, can't remember the last time I bothered to drop into an asteroid cluster & I'm not sure I'd drop into a comet after the novelty of the first or second one.
Lots of stuff that could be added though, something for everyone
That's the thing with asteroid clusters: there's relatively little reason to ever go there.
The thing with comets is they should be active and interesting places. Particularly ones approaching stars. They're much, much bigger than the asteroids in the game and could have flying debris, a gaseous coma and tail, eruptions on the surface, complex terrain, rare mineable deposits, they could be another source of tritium or all new commodities and materials...
Real danger and rewards.
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IIRC when Horizons was being developed there were 'potato' planets, really small ones (<200km diameter). What you describe would be effectively a planetoid with a highly eccentric orbit as far as gameplay is concerned. I agree that could be an interesting thing to find.
But accretion discs would look cool too
Still though, no chocolate; bummer
Also way back maybe 1.1?, there was released a spread sheet of all the first discoveries at the time, and it was full of comets.
Which gives you an idea how long they have been sitting fallow waiting for a gameplay reason to visit them to justify including graphics and Nav and said gameplay
EDIT
"Official" First Discovery List : EliteDangerous (reddit.com)
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I c comets all the time doing u turns and Interdicting me. There is even a guy that rides those who likes cargo holdings.
Can't see it from where? Earth?
In 3306 I am in a Spaceship, 'member
With External Lights and Nightvision!!