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Musiqsoulman
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From: Italy
|  Posted: 2006-06-16 08:04
My question is very simple.
Do planets have orbital revolutions around their stars?
Take for instance ross 448, I've never seen Chaotia in a different position than that. So I must assume that they do not have orbital revoltuions.
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| Posted: 2006-06-16 08:11
It does, but because the Metaverse is so massive the servers would die if we actually made them do it. If you put up a scenario server, the planets will move. Sirius 1 in Sirius would move really really fast if you tried it. 
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Musiqsoulman
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| Posted: 2006-06-16 08:13
There are certain "inferno" type planets that make really fast revolutions.
But I'm talking about the "apparently stuck" planets.
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| Posted: 2006-06-16 08:13
It adds un-nessisairy workload on the servers.
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Musiqsoulman
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| Posted: 2006-06-16 08:16
So I suppose that the final anser is:
"With the exeptions of certain "inferno" planets, normal planets do not have revolutions, altough the engine of the game would be capable of calculating them."
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YIIMM
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From: Barcino, Hispania Tarraconensis
| Posted: 2006-06-16 09:49
There was one planet that moved, and if you orbited it you would see your engine trails as the planet carried you along, but just that one planet lagged the server, and now it's been replaced with a nebula showing its "remnence" (sic).
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Doran
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From: The Gideon Unit
| Posted: 2006-06-16 10:15
some planets do acutally move.
while becky in sirius doesnt, the planet it orbits (S5 i think) does move, so becky moves to.
tinka moves, used to be unbombable from certain directions due to it, its been toned down a bit
the froh/dark/marder cluster in andosia moves, or it did before the system got moved to its present location.
af and niax in cygnus (oddly no longer in the mv) change position relative to each other occasionally, but dont seem to acutally move
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From: happy land
| Posted: 2006-06-16 11:19
the more moving objects= the more lag. So its a good thing that not all planets move in mv.
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| Posted: 2006-06-16 11:38
And lets not forget Sirius 1.
That baby has a mind of its own. Just be greatful you young un's weren't around when it moved at a godly speed... (About 10x faster than it is now).
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| Posted: 2006-06-16 11:41
That planet had steroids...plus someone added a ton of Jumpdrives to it =P
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Ramius
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From: Ramius
| Posted: 2006-06-16 12:25
Never forget the conga lines of ships trying to sneak into that incredibly small window to orbit before they would hit the planet.
Never try it in a station, as you orbit to the other side of the planet you go BOOM by star proximity.
/laugh at mourning zero
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Capt.picard
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| Posted: 2006-06-17 04:37
Tinka also moves, in scenarios at least.
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| Posted: 2006-06-17 10:23
As everyone else has already stated it's possible to have planets orbit (whenever I make a map I try to give my planets some orbit speed, adds to strategy) but it would cause even more lag than we already get...
And as for Sirius 1, I happened to like that planet, it saved my life once...the story goes that I'm sitting in orbit of S3 (I think, one very near orbit of S1) building in my ICC engi when suddenly a Luth Mandible close jumps me from the other side of the star...he alphas and I begin to turn to spread the damage out while aligning an E-Jump but I knew it wasn't going to be enough to save me, then BAM! S1 and the mandible become very close friends 
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Doran
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| Posted: 2006-06-17 10:32
S4. S3 orbits farther out
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| Posted: 2006-06-17 10:34
The planets Can have Orbital paths, and once did. Infact, Darkspace Asia's Scenario server has orbiting planets. In the Editor, their is an option to change the speed of it's orbit. Which, if the servers wherent under enough of a workload, orbits wouldnt be so bad, something added to the game =P
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