When will planets start orbiting?asked by pengu4life

Hey, here's at least one thing I get to say at least does not depend on icache haha. No in the end there's many smaller issues that crop up when you turn on orbiting (which we've been able to do for years actually!), as it causes problems in many gameplay systems. One example: Navigation. Imagine you want to plot route to from a satellite to an outpost on a moon across the solar system. Depending on your ship this may take quite a while and by the time you get part way through the jump the route you took can become invalid as it may be blocked by something that moved into view. This isn't an insurmountable problem and we have plans on how to deal with it, but we just haven't done the work yet.