EGO THE LIVING PLANET!!

[Jericho]

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

[funkynutz]

Is it the one you can land on, but you can't keep up? Wait for it to come to you.

[Jericho]

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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

[arcaneprophet]

...wait...WHAT?

[Wolf]

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...wait...WHAT?

time for a trip maybe? :)

[Sapyx]

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.

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

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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! :)

[arcaneprophet]

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...wait...WHAT?

time for a trip maybe? :)

Only AFTER i get my cutter

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από arcaneprophet:

Only AFTER i get my cutter

You want to challenge the planet? ;)

[Jericho]

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Only AFTER i get my cutter

You want to challenge the planet? ;)

not a bad idea xD EGO i chellenge you

[Fix]

It's not a bug, it's a well known planet.

https://youtu.be/4A0YsxVuqKA

[Toothbrush Cheapwood]

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Only AFTER i get my cutter

You want to challenge the planet? ;)

No. He wants an inner trip

[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?

[arcaneprophet]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από 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.

[Manwith Noname]

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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.

[ZombieHunter]

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?