Could you briefly go over how coordinate spaces work in the Verse, per-system coordinates and galaxy wide coordinates?asked by Doc Tari
TL;DREach system uses its star as the origin with meter-based XYZ coordinates and pre-set nav points, while galaxy-wide positions would name the system; whether free XYZ travel is allowed and how orbits factor in is undecided.
So in terms of how things work in the setup we have right now, in the system we consider sort of this center of the star system to be the origin of 0000, XYZ. The unit space in the engine is setup on meters so one year is one meter, and the center of the solar system would be where the star that everything would orbit around, or the multiple star systems would orbit around and so right now in terms of flying around that like locations we kind of have a debate whether or not give you set nav points, okay here's arriving at this planet, or arriving at the asteroid field, So there sort of navigation points you can enter, and then also whether you could enter random sort of XyZ position to quantum to or we make you sort of fly to a cruise speed first basically enter that location into your nav computer and then you could broadcast it to your friends and it would be an entry, which is kind of sort of one of the explorer developer options so we're sort of playing around with that concept but you know we are going to allow you to sort of set or explore or find off beaten path places but you know have pre done navigation points. So it's almost like you would on a gps I guess. Then on the galaxy wide coordinates we would specify what system you're in, so you're in Stanton System, you're in sol system, you're in Tara system, so then you know we would be potentially sol system, earth, or sol system at this XYZ location and that will potentially see how it works because we've had some debates about actually having orbital mechanics, so obviously in XYZ position doesn't really work unless it's relative, because you know if you want to go to earth it's going to be at a different point, it won't be there. So those are kind of the things we need to flesh out. Right now in the large world map and multi-crew map it's XYZ, in meters and we give you pre determined nav points and you can sort of unlock more and more of them by exploring around and doing stuff like that.