EVE General Discussion

At least planets and moons spin with proper day and night phases, also clouds and gas stripes are moving.

I agree that the advanced mechanics and physics involved in zero-g and orbital situations would be incredibly counter-intuitive if fully simulated, and left up to players to learn and manage.

If the planets, moons, POS, and structures did move, I would be ecstatic. Perhaps there is a way to add these dynamics without completely and utterly having to change the game. Maybe not. I simply wanted to present to CCP and the community.

Perhaps CCP could add only physics principles they found beneficial to players. I.E hiding behind a distant moon to avoid being picked up on sensors, or using planets and artificial gravity wells to slingshot yourself around battlefields. I am certainly not requesting or even complaining about any part of the game. I just found it funny that I had never given thought to the fact that the planets and structures in EVE do not move.

Just to point it up: our ships have computers and we operate (generally) in well know systems. When we make a bookmark the ship computer can keep it updated, adjusting it to the motion of the star, planet, moon and structure to which it reference (remember, even the stars move).
Even if we bookmark a location in an unknown system, I really hope that our computers and onboard sensor system can track the relevant astronomical bodies and adjust for movement.

Traveler (the pen and paper RPG) had some rule about that stuff, but essentially it boiled down to what I depicted above: you either had a database with all the object in a system and a comprehensive list of their movements or you had a exploration ship with the ability to detect most objects and do the necessary calculations.