Stars ?

[No One]

Not a criticism, just a suggestion/question : the night sky is beautiful but would it be difficult/costly to have the stars ressemble the actual constellations in the northern hemisphere? Unless I'm much mistaken, it doesn't seem to be the case right now.
At least Ursa Major, Ursa Minor and the North Star, they could be useful sometimes for orientation.

Just my two cents.
Thanks for this great game, developpers !

[Excorpion]

Thats a good idea... but im on the souther hemisphere... can you share a map to know how do they like, and the positions ? to learn how to orientate myself at night.

[sockpuppet12421]

http://www.artofmanliness.com/2014/07/16/15-constellations-every-man-should-know/

Not sure if it's in the game, going to the lookout to find Polaris now. If it's not our northern hemisphere then the stars must have shifted and cultists will start chanting "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn."

[Excorpion]

Lel... also, good info

[athikers]

Agree that there should be a more realistic night sky-looked for the north star early in the game and gave up on it-But really, H P Lovecraft. :-)

[Esch]

That would be nice and fair survival. I'd like to.

[JM]

Night sky is a flat image for now. For the best stars representation, it need to be on a sperical plane.
I think it's on the "would be nice, but it's not critical" list of the dev.

[Pegasus]

Originally posted by JM:

Night sky is a flat image for now. For the best stars representation, it need to be on a sperical plane.
I think it's on the "would be nice, but it's not critical" list of the dev.

It's projected onto a sphere, was a recent addition.

[Shenji]

It's a sphere now. I can only barely recognize the Orion, if that's not my delusion.

[Skywatcher]

As a skywatcher i would really appreciate this. Bare in mind that under very dark skies much more stars are visible then we are used to see from our light polluted cities, so it's much harder to pick out the star signs. But as it is now i don't think it's very realistic. With the aid of Ursa major it would be very easy to find North. Just extend the two stars on the right side of the dipper upwards and you find Polaris (the pole star). This could be helpful to navigate in the dark.

[No One]

Originally posted by Skywatcher:

r it would be very easy to find North. (...). This could be helpful to navigate in the dark.

My point exactly :-)

[Helen Keller]

Guess it's been a while but going to chime in here: stars *should* be realistic, I'd think. I grew up in central California but had a star map book I'd study religiously. Granted, I'd love to see the southern hemisphere options but... not in this game. :)
I actually lived quite a bit north for a number of years, and I will state I'm rather saddened by the lack of realistic stars in-game. I'm rather new at it still and trying to hold off most comments until I feel somewhat experienced (and btw, I'll gladly say this is an awesome game, even as-is with all its flaws!), but it's really harrowing to not be able to venture out by night and rely on the stars. (Yeah, I'm still new. I don't have these maps memorised quite yet... :)

Though, in retrospect, making a new starmap not based on real life is intriguing... might have to start that.

[iwasa]

Although I don't really recognize constellations, I remember looking up into the clear night sky over the region I was in (Desolation Point probably), seeing the stars and thinking, "that's beautiful". I am not a star gazer but it was very nice.

[Helen Keller]

Yes, the stars are lovely... I depleted too many warmth options staring heh.

[aaduwall]

I seem to recall the devs saying something about real stars being on their "to do" list. I can't find the announcement, but I seem to remember it being linked with the future aurura update (whenever they're able to get that together). I'm definitely looking forward to it!

[vam pyat par]

+1
stars matter!