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Jericho Jan 26, 2019 @ 5:34pm
EGO THE LIVING PLANET!!
in epsilon indi system there is a little planet orbiting around another planet but at the speed of light! now thats a bug, imagine beeing on that planet lol xD
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funkynutz Jan 26, 2019 @ 6:49pm 
Is it the one you can land on, but you can't keep up? Wait for it to come to you.
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Jericho Jan 26, 2019 @ 6:52pm 
Originally posted by FunkynutZ:
Is it the one you can land on, but you can't keep up? Wait for it to come to you.
didn't saw if it's landable or not, almost hit my ship, luckily he didn't come after me xD
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arcaneprophet Jan 26, 2019 @ 7:10pm 
...wait...WHAT?
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Wolf Jan 26, 2019 @ 7:15pm 
Originally posted by arcaneprophet:
...wait...WHAT?
time for a trip maybe? :)
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Sapyx Jan 26, 2019 @ 7:31pm 
Yes, that's Mitterand Hollow, the moon of New Africa , in the Epsilon Indi system. Orbits the planet in just 86 seconds.

It is a bug, but one that FD have announced that they've decided to keep, because it's (a) harmelss, and (b) very popular with players. Mitterand Hollow is a landable moon, but as others have stated, it's moving too fast to catch it in Supercruise; you need to sit in its orbital path and wait for it to land on you. You can find lots of video clips of people driving around on Mitterand Hollow.

Epsilon Indi is a "hand-crafted" system, with content that was originally designed back in the 1990s for the FE2 game, and which was copied over to ED. It's that "copying over" that's caused the problem; ED uses distances in light-seconds (Ls), while FE2 used distiances in astronomical units (AU). There are about 500 Ls to 1 AU. So in accidentally transcribing the orital radius in AU rather than Ls, they made the moon have an orbit 500 times smaller that it "should" be. Now, the Stellar Forge knows that a moon can't have that small a radius (because it would be orbiting inside the planet), so it placd the moon at the minimal distance a moon can exist (the Roche Limit), but the Stellar Forge does not auto-correct the orbital period, too. Thus, you have a moon that "thinks" it's orbiting just a few km away from a two-Earth-masses black hole.

A moon at the actual position of Mitterand Hollow should have an orbital period of at least several hours.
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Dolphin Bottlenose Jan 26, 2019 @ 7:32pm 
Originally posted by Jericho:
didn't saw if it's landable or not, almost hit my ship, luckily he didn't come after me xD
Being hit by a planet. Now that's an epic addition to any space pilot's resume! :)
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arcaneprophet Jan 26, 2019 @ 8:52pm 
Originally posted by wolf:
Originally posted by arcaneprophet:
...wait...WHAT?
time for a trip maybe? :)
Only AFTER i get my cutter
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Dolphin Bottlenose Jan 26, 2019 @ 10:28pm 
Originally posted by arcaneprophet:
Only AFTER i get my cutter
You want to challenge the planet? ;)
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Jericho Jan 27, 2019 @ 1:37am 
Originally posted by Dolphin Bottlenose:
Originally posted by arcaneprophet:
Only AFTER i get my cutter
You want to challenge the planet? ;)
not a bad idea xD EGO i chellenge you
Last edited by Jericho; Jan 27, 2019 @ 1:37am
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Fix Jan 27, 2019 @ 8:26am 
It's not a bug, it's a well known planet.

https://youtu.be/4A0YsxVuqKA
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Toothbrush Cheapwood Jan 27, 2019 @ 9:39am 
Originally posted by Dolphin Bottlenose:
Originally posted by arcaneprophet:
Only AFTER i get my cutter
You want to challenge the planet? ;)
No. He wants an inner trip
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ZombieHunter Jan 27, 2019 @ 5:13pm 
So could a planet orbit a star faster than the speed of light? Think about that before answering.

In other words from the observer point of the star is it possible for a planet to appear to be orbiting faster than light?

Can objects within your field of view move across it faster than the speed of light with respect to your orientation?
Last edited by ZombieHunter; Jan 27, 2019 @ 5:16pm
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arcaneprophet Jan 27, 2019 @ 5:56pm 
Originally posted by ZombieHunter:
So could a planet orbit a star faster than the speed of light? Think about that before answering.

In other words from the observer point of the star is it possible for a planet to appear to be orbiting faster than light?

Can objects within your field of view move across it faster than the speed of light with respect to your orientation?
Perhaps... But if so, would said object be observable to us?

I would say no, it cant. But its interesting to imagine the conditions if it could.
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Manwith Noname Jan 27, 2019 @ 6:11pm 
Originally posted by ZombieHunter:
So could a planet orbit a star faster than the speed of light? Think about that before answering.

Without crunching numbers, I'd say no. Unless you class a black hole as a star. The mass needs to be absolutely huge before the speed of light becomes the orbital velocity.

Edit: and no cheating with things like expansion of the universe, the galaxy moving through said universe and the star moving through said galaxy.
Last edited by Manwith Noname; Jan 27, 2019 @ 6:32pm
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ZombieHunter Jan 27, 2019 @ 7:11pm 
Can objects within your field of view move across it faster than the speed of light with respect to your orientation?
Star is spinning. Planet is orbiting the star. You are on the star. Can the observed planet appear to orbit FTL?
Last edited by ZombieHunter; Jan 27, 2019 @ 7:11pm
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