This discussion always comes up in the forums and what we are wondering is if planets, moons, etc will have properly simulated orbits in each star system?asked by TigerHeart

I have no idea, I've been stuck inside the ships, mostly in cargo stuff!Dan Tracey: I actually developed the early parts of the star-map, for the original prototyping of the PU. The prototype is there, though it's completely broken right now, but it's there and it did work. We have talked about this a lot with Austin and the PU team about how we're going to instance out certain sections of star systems so that was you have a local area which is instanced to a particular server, to set up a realistic scale. What we wanted to do is to extrapolate from the star system, so a bit like a top down view of a star system showing planets orbiting at different rates, then bring that into these individual instances realistically. This is going to be a headache to make, but we are going to do it, or at least try to, we'll let you know when we have more specific information. Right now it's a lot of setting up the back end servers, implementing double precision, but we haven't been able to thoroughly test beyond that, we're working on and looking at jump points with more priority. I don't want to say it's definitely possible, but we're looking into it and we'll let you know as it comes up.