Player Features and Ideas Discussion

well i thought i posted this before but it turns out i didn't so here goes again

can we have the planets so they orbit the stars you'll get nothin out of this other than eve would be slightly more realistic and it'd look cool you'd only need to update it either once a day and just move the planets along a bit after each downtime and it'd be really cool to watch the orbits of the planets of a year or two of your home system

The obvious solution is to refactor the bookmark system so that they're tied to the sun. The trouble with that is it would probably be an enormous amount of work and the team who messes around with legacy code is already extremely busy refactoring the game code from the ground up so that we can have nice things; better POSes, on-grid boosting, overall performance enhancements, et cetera, et cetera. Re-designing bookmarks can come later.

The other problem is that there are a vast amount of star systems in EVE. Each star system has at least one planet, many have several. Each planet usually has at least one moon and some have as many as twenty-three or maybe even more. Every moon has to orbit every planet has to orbit every star.

Let's not think about the computational requirements to advance the cosmos during downtime. I rather like it no longer taking an hour for the servers to come up.

In theory though, I support this notion and would even go a step further and say everything should orbit in realtime, even if it happens to be very slow.

Personally I would say make moons orbit the planets at a faster rate. As in RL if you watch Jupiter you will see it's moons pass over it's surface in real time (and what an amazing thing it is to see) so that could be a start BUT as mentioned above bookmarks would need reworking and etc etc.

Nice idea OP but one for the back burner while other things are worked on. Personally I feel that this should be done before WiS. More immersion less "Ta-dah!".