Question to explorers out there

[Manthing]

So I'm currently in a system with three Gas Giants. I almost never have orbital lines on but today I decided to look at them and read a little while exploring and the first Gas Giant was orbiting nothing. Its orbit was as big as its own moon. It basically looked like it was orbiting something invisible. The data on the giant did not show this though. Are there glitches like this out there or did I find something that breaks our known laws?! lol

 

[Sysmon]

So I'm currently in a system with three Gas Giants. I almost never have orbital lines on but today I decided to look at them and read a little while exploring and the first Gas Giant was orbiting nothing. Its orbit was as big as its own moon. It basically looked like it was orbiting something invisible. The data on the giant did not show this though. Are there glitches like this out there or did I find something that breaks our known laws?! lol

Is it part of a binary couple? They will orbit a common centre of gravity and appear therefore to orbit nothing. Technically there should be an orbital line for the centre of gravity circling the local sun as well, but I haven't seen one in the game, and recall asking about that during Beta.

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[Manthing]

That's the issue. the orbital line is as small as its moon around nothing. The other two gas giants have their orbital lines going around the their sun. I can try to get a screen shot. For some reason I haven't been able to take them of Elite Dangerous

 

[Cody]

I can try to get a screen shot. For some reason I haven't been able to take them of Elite Dangerous

Are you trying to take hi-res pics in Open? If so, that's disabled.

 

[Sysmon]

F10 will save a screenshot in a Frontier Developments folder. I think ALT+F10 does the hi-res thing that Cody is on about, but as I play Open I never use it.

You say "it's own moon". Are you sure it is a moon and not the other half of a binary system?

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[Manthing]

Okay logged on the orbital line is correct now. Guess it was a glitch. I was just completely confused and was just clarifying. Thanks for the f10 thing. I usually do it through my gpu and that hasn't been working.

 

[Adept Geraden]

Orbit lines are also dependent upon your velocity. If you slow right down they will disappear. Could be confused with a glitch.

 

[Whiterose]

Orbit lines are also dependent upon your velocity. If you slow right down they will disappear. Could be confused with a glitch.

Absolute tosh. I am not even moving when scanning a star and I can still see the orbit lines.

 

[Mikey2305]

Not absolute tosh. Orbit lines disappear when you stop other than for the body you are currently scanning

 

[Whiterose]

Not absolute tosh. Orbit lines disappear when you stop other than for the body you are currently scanning

Perhaps its because I am moving very slowly then, but I have never seen the lines disappear.

 

[Genar-Hofoen]

Perhaps its because I am moving very slowly then, but I have never seen the lines disappear.

The orbit lines do fade out as you slow right down in SC. If you have a system body targeted, though, the orbit line for that target is still shown.

 

[Whiterose]

The orbit lines do fade out as you slow right down in SC. If you have a system body targeted, though, the orbit line for that target is still shown.

In that case I stand corrected and you can all queue up and beat me with a large wet fish.

 

[Genar-Hofoen]

In that case I stand corrected and you can all queue up and beat me with a large wet fish.

*fetches the large trout from the galley*

 

[Manthing]

Just to clear this up. it was for sure a glitch. The orbit looked like that of its own moon. It is a gas giant so we aren't talking about a small body here. The lines were dead wrong. In fact I saw this yet again last night. Logged out and logged in and all good. I have sent a ticket in to inform them. like I said originally, I almost never run with the lines on so its not a big deal but I know some people like to see them. Trust me when you see a huge gas giant orbiting a small moon you know there is an issue.