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Amazing NASA web app: How space could and should be in the game

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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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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Wow . . .cool stuff . . .thx
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    I think it would transform the game's appeal. You'd have educators and real astronmers and enthusiasts flocking to the game in droves, using it to teach and everything else. It would make the setting real by grounding it (no pun intended). I mean, how awesome would that be? :D

    It's an Astrometrics lab. In a WEB BROWSER.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Erm, here's the problem. Everything outside of Sol is purely fictional.

    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.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    quite amazing - :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    I always though sector space should have no grid lines. No popsicle sticks or planets and not show their orbits with rings. It would just show a star a little smaller than the ones now. When you got to the star it would ask you if you wanted to enter if possible.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    I agree, its definitely awesome!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    It's pretty cool! I would love to be able to fly to Luna in game, or see Saturn up close. Hopefully we'll be able to see these sometime later. A screenshot from Jupiter Station would be sweet. :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Gargoyle wrote: »
    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.

    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
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    We need Astrometric Lab just like this added to the game for us to Explore the Star systems and read up on the planets, History and Cultures of all the different races....

    even track Comets, Asteroids also to Track Fleet movements ect.... the possiblites are endless if this was added to STO !
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    only five years until we "see" first(ish)hand beyond the heliopause.

    exciting.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Pacifica- wrote:
    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

    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.
    Pacifica- wrote:
    We need Astrometric Lab just like this added to the game for us to Explore the Star systems and read up on the planets, History and Cultures of all the different races....

    That would be bad@$$.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Amazing as usual.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Pacifica- wrote:
    We need Astrometric Lab just like this added to the game for us to Explore the Star systems and read up on the planets, History and Cultures of all the different races....

    even track Comets, Asteroids also to Track Fleet movements ect.... the possiblites are endless if this was added to STO !

    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...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Here's one you can add to your list of cool space tools.

    http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/Home.aspx
    WorldWide Telescope (WWT) enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world. Experience narrated guided tours from astronomers and educators featuring interesting places in the sky.
    A web-based version of WorldWide Telescope is also now available. This version enables seamless, guided explorations of the universe from within a web browser on PC and Intel Mac OS X by using the power of Microsoft Silverlight 3.0.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    GlobalTaxi wrote: »
    Here's one you can add to your list of cool space tools.

    http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/Home.aspx

    I CALL BS!!!!!!

    There are no lollipop sticks holding up the planets!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Voyager 1 and 2 will just bump into the zone wall any day now and be transferred to sector space. This proves nothing!!!

    ( Great stuff. )

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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Englebert wrote:
    I always though sector space should have no grid lines. No popsicle sticks or planets and not show their orbits with rings. It would just show a star a little smaller than the ones now. When you got to the star it would ask you if you wanted to enter if possible.

    *FACEPALM*
    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
    :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    superlink1 wrote: »
    *FACEPALM*
    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
    :D

    Exactly, also bump the thread! :P
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    noo noo it will be PURE Awesomeness than this! >.>
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Gargoyle wrote: »
    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.

    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 :confused:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Ummmm, I hate to tell you guys this, but I'm already running without grid-lines, Popsicle sticks. :p No glowy systems either. :) I did choose to keep the trade routes thought. Kinda looks neat with those still in.:D
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