Look at this web app:
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/eyes/
Real astronomical data. Real scale. Base it on real data, and you'd have a masterpiece.
Use the "Free Fly" mode to address travel speed.
If this app fits in a web browser, then it certainly ought to be doable.
Awesome.
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It's an Astrometrics lab. In a WEB BROWSER.
And the status of Sol would be fictional too. The moon is terraformed, there are colonies on Mars and stations around lots of the planets. Depending on how far STO follows some of the pocket books, Pluto was "devoured" by a replicating borg cube (In Before Dishonor) So as a teaching tool it wouldn't be very useful.
They are planning to give Sol this sort of treatment, I think most of the planets are done, they just need some more stuff to make them.... useful.
But it wouldn't be a very good use of manhours to give the full system treatment to every starsystem in the game, at least at this point. You'll probably see lots of player-maps with full systems built in, though.
WOW.... this is soo amazing to play around with.....
Check out Earth and you can see the Satellites and see exactly where the ISS currently is all in real time, also can move foward in time to see where things will be
even track Comets, Asteroids also to Track Fleet movements ect.... the possiblites are endless if this was added to STO !
exciting.
I ended up zooming waaaaaaaaaaay out of the solar system. Not sure if they've modeled that much or what, but it was taking forever, lol.
That would be bad@$$.
My thoughts as well.
Would be cool to implement this with exploration missions as well. Were exploration to have more to them anyway than they do now, you could have players charting star systems, nebula, and other stuff in space and adding it in the database for others to follow up with in further exploration. You could even work in what you can/can't find pending on your ship, science ships for instance being able to map/explore more than escorts or cruisers.
All sorts of pre-beta discussion just came rushing back to me. Hold on, incoming aneurysm...
http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/Home.aspx
I CALL BS!!!!!!
There are no lollipop sticks holding up the planets!
( Great stuff. )
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had't you guys been paying attention?
the Sector Space Revamped and Sol System, plus NEW ESD is coming in Season 3 at Dec 2nd
Exactly, also bump the thread! :P
Interesting, but I prefer Celesita, more so after downloading star data for 2 million stars, afew Galaxies... and a Ringworld somewhere that I can't remember which system its in