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Do planets and moons rotate around a mother celestial body like the sun?

TL;DRPlanets and moons rotate but don't orbit yet, because orbiting would need a lot of physics work and bring many technical and design challenges that they expect to tackle eventually.

Todd PapyStar Citizen Live Game Director

They rotate. They don't orbit right now. Orbiting is going to take a lot of physics power and then it might require us to think how we do IFCS or things a little bit differently. It will bring in a fair amount of headaches that we will need to tackle. I know CR wants it, but obviously, if you think about traditional game design, traditional maps, it's not all of a sudden Germany's right next to the States and therefore makes a two-minute quantum jump versus a nine-minute quantum jump. But these are things that we'd have to take into account and balance. And then also what happens when players are flying into these things and then it's picking up. This planet's coming in and you're flying this way. Or you took off way back there, well, that planet has probably already passed. It presents a lot of challenges, not challenges that we're afraid of by any means. It's a lot of technical challenges. I mean, NASA's been dealing with this for quite a while and eventually we will.

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Published on this date.7 Jul 2018