After reading http://www.astronomy.com/news/2013/...by-double-star-fomalhaut-is-actually-a-triple I began to wonder if the starmap would a) have fomalhaut show as a double or triple system and b) if they would alter the starmap every so often once better info like this becomes available so that the starmap remains as accurate as possible. If so how often should they update it or should it just remain as is due to issues with continuity?
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- Thread starter Flavio
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If updates are made, it effectively risk a break in continuity. Trade routes, war strategies, influence on climate ... many things could be turned upside. I think the Galaxy will not change in the game in this area thence
Michael Brookes
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Interesting to know that you don't completely rule it out, though. Very open-minded.
Since from our Earth perspective the stars are rather far away from each other (2.5 LY) which for us looks like 11 full moons, I guess this star was already in the planned starmap. We just found out that its movements make it a part of the Fomalhaut system. it's not like they just found a third star in that double system that we previously hadn't seen. The star was already known but on the other side of the sky. We knew it wasn't far away from us only just now we are able to calculate that it falls within the gravitational pull of the Fomalhaut system.
True but on the "old" starmap, it would appear as two different destinations and formalhault would be a binary but the "new" version will just have the one destination and possibly a bit further to travel to any bases - if they exist as the could have done on the old map but some may be unstable in the new map.
Yeah well.. I'm not looking at the old map anymore
But true: that single star should show up as Fomalaut C and not LP 876-10 in the orrery.
As I see it. The only thing that can change a system must be a catastrophic event. Like a comet blasting into a habited planet, asteroids or a supernova. Even planet x with very long orbits around habited systems. That can wreck havoc on established systems. Gamma bursts and black holes. Though these are very rare events.
Systems which have been established and explored should stay so for the looks and feel of it. It might be a favorite home for a player. And I dont think people will like it if their favorite planet is suddenly gone But events could trigger a change.
If its procedural or made by moderators of the game we will soon enough find out. I still cant grasp the thought of 400 billion stars with their celestial bodies. Is it possible? Or just fiction?
Systems which have been established and explored should stay so for the looks and feel of it. It might be a favorite home for a player. And I dont think people will like it if their favorite planet is suddenly gone
But events could trigger a change. If its procedural or made by moderators of the game we will soon enough find out. I still cant grasp the thought of 400 billion stars with their celestial bodies. Is it possible? Or just fiction?