Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Just drop a universal North on the tactical overlay. Adds another way to orient themselves over comms. Alternatively just make the north indicator on the HUD blue or easier to see. Thanks!

I think this is a great idea. The celestials in the HUD are already projected onto our tactical overlay in their horizontal heading from the ship already. A common north direction would be nice.

Space craft do this today by orienting to what is called the "First point of Aries" in what is called the HSEa - Heliocentric Solar Ecliptic (Inertial) frame. The other point of reference is the Ecliptic North Pole.

For EVE the first point of Aries, can be something like the location of Jita or something funny like that. Or maybe the location of the original EVE gate. Something out of lore would be neat.

The EVE version of the ecliptic north pole is already established because all ships seem to rotate to a common horizontal already.

I like that EVE does not have a galactic north. The idea of cardinal directions goes back to ancient explorers and no longer holds relevance in our modern world. To cling to this old tradition is laziness or worse, being misled. We operate at extremely relativistic speeds as we sail across the galaxy through warp drive and stargates. It is clear to our science that relativity dominates, that Euclid's view of space is archaic and useless.

That'd be the one :o) Thanks Rowells.