Rogue Planets

solrac42

solrac42
Are there any rogue planets in ED ?

For those who do not know what a rogue planet is, it is a planet which moves through interstellar space as it does not orbit any sun ... just curious.

I plan to purchase ED when first/third person movement and planetary landings are released.
 
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Arcanonn

Arcanonn
No I doubt they are there and I know what you're referring to. Trick is if an object that's planet size is moving around in the "space" between stars it would be a needle in the proverbial haystack, you'd never find it.

*I should also add you wouldnt be able to navigate to it as the nav system is based around star systems, these are instance based so you can't really even fly from one star to another in super cruise (it's been tried)......so even that aside heading out into the black looking for a grain of sand in Antarctica would be impossible.
 
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Vandaahl

Vandaahl
We have a Stellar Force creating complete solar systems, and I'm pretty sure it just does that and not creating planets going awol.
So my guess is a no.
 
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Arcanonn

Arcanonn
Worth pointing out that I think it may account for some of the missing "mass" in the universe....I mean if planetary formation involves lots of planets that form not settling into stable orbits but flying off into nothingness.....ness. :D
 

Ravenov

Ravenov
There are, however, some pretty obvious extra-solar captured planets out there. Most noticeable when most or all of the planets in a system are all on the same ecliptic, and one that has an inclination massively different, often quite far out as well.
 

Retrograde

Retrograde
I think rogue planets are in the pipeline somewhere. At least they were mentioned at some point ages ago, alongside comets and other stuff for explorers.

A nice thing about introducing rogue planets in the game eventually is that they are not currently on the galaxy map. Real terra incognita, etc. So if FD made some skill-based mechanism to locate them, this would probably appease some of the people complaining about exploration being too simple. Or not...

I'd like to propose a system whereby such planets are located by players having to analyze spectral filters from at least two different nearby systems. Players have to triangulate the position themselves and take redshift into account in order to locate the planet. In addition, they have to be reached through supercruise only. :p
 
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Eclipse1024

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Arcanonn said:
Worth pointing out that I think it may account for some of the missing "mass" in the universe....I mean if planetary formation involves lots of planets that form not settling into stable orbits but flying off into nothingness.....ness. :D
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That's a really good point. Estimates are between 2 and 100,000 rogue planets per star in the galaxy. Towards the latter, that's a lot of mass.

Regarding locating rogue planets, if the Advanced Discovery Scanner can miraculously locate asteroid-sized moons 200k LS away in less than 10 seconds I don't think it'll be much of a trick to find a 3Mj object floating around within a few LYs distance.
 

Fen Harel

Fen Harel
There are small-ish brown dwarves... so that is on the border of maybe being something akin to what the OP is looking for.

Basically, as others have pointed out, our ships jump between stellar masses so there is no way to locate a planet-sized object in interstellar space. (I suppose someone could just point away from a star and head off in a random direction and hope for the 1 in a several billion chance to stumble on one before running out of fuel, not that the game would accommodate this.)
 

sonicology

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I've jumped into systems consisting of a single class Y (sub-)brown dwarf before and the thought has occurred to me that I've basically just found a rogue planet; that's as close as you will get in the game currently, and I don't see that changing for a long time (if ever).
 

Flin

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There are and I think 1.4 is where they are adding more tools to 'place' objects for playets to find.

I think we'll need to wait for Horizons to get additonal content, features, and system modules to expand exploration gameplay.

Anybody actually tried tracking down known comets in Sol system or have they all been 'removed' in the name of science or whatever reason?
 

Crash1099

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solrac42 said:
Are there any rogue planets in ED ?

For those who do not know what a rogue planet is, it is a planet which moves through interstellar space as it does not orbit any sun ... just curious.

I plan to purchase ED when first/third person movement and planetary landings are released.
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Op is there one that we spotted in real life?

That would be cool.
 

777Driver

777Driver
Pretty sure rouge planets are still planned for the game. Throughout beta the devs would go on about dark systems. I was surprised when they didn't actually make it into Gamma
 

OnePercent

OnePercent
solrac42 said:
Are there any rogue planets in ED ?

For those who do not know what a rogue planet is, it is a planet which moves through interstellar space as it does not orbit any sun ... just curious.

I plan to purchase ED when first/third person movement and planetary landings are released.
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No rogues, since it's procedural galaxy and servers don't calculate movement of non system objects.

Also, prepare to wait at least 3 years till we have FPS AND Plandings.
 
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