Station Tracking?
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About navigational system we have some discussions on Starbase Construction Recommendations Discord server (not a faction, this is a community server).
We expecting to have navigational buoys all over the space, so you will know your position relatively to them.
Navigation system will be created and maintained by several factions like Cardinal Guild, STAR Industries, Cylon (not a faction), The Collective, SkyJack Industries.
Stations probably will post their coordinates using same system.
We expecting to have navigational buoys all over the space, so you will know your position relatively to them.
Navigation system will be created and maintained by several factions like Cardinal Guild, STAR Industries, Cylon (not a faction), The Collective, SkyJack Industries.
Stations probably will post their coordinates using same system.
We learned a bit more on them from Lauri and quite surprised visually 200km and later on 1000km
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That being said you can use Transmisters / Radio's for location finding. I'm hoping that Stations themselves will have really high range to the point they kind of spread far enough to get create a GPS system in space to some degree till our own property can load in space and we can create say a GPS network.
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That being said you can use Transmisters / Radio's for location finding. I'm hoping that Stations themselves will have really high range to the point they kind of spread far enough to get create a GPS system in space to some degree till our own property can load in space and we can create say a GPS network.
I just hope it won't be too difficult to manually navigate by seeing little specks that are stations all over the place
"hmm which is ours?"
"That one?"
"okay lets go"
Goes across the galaxy in the wrong direction missing proper navigation
haha would be fun to see this happen but not fun to happen to yourself, but I believe this will turn out just fine.
"hmm which is ours?"
"That one?"
"okay lets go"
Goes across the galaxy in the wrong direction missing proper navigation
haha would be fun to see this happen but not fun to happen to yourself, but I believe this will turn out just fine.
You can use celestial bodies for navigation. Eos, moons and the belt. So even without built-in coordinates, it will be easy to calculate your position with simple Yolol code and 3 turrets.
My guess is that common agreement will be:
Starting stations will be 0,0,0
Line from starting station to Eos will be X-axis,
Line perpendicular to the belt an X-axis will be Z-axis, with positive values towards more sunny side of the belt.
Line perpendicular to X and Z axis will be Y-axis, with positive values towards left.
+ maybe some more precise local coordinates in areas of denser population (megastations, moons). Those can be done with transmitter/receiver nav.
My guess is that common agreement will be:
Starting stations will be 0,0,0
Line from starting station to Eos will be X-axis,
Line perpendicular to the belt an X-axis will be Z-axis, with positive values towards more sunny side of the belt.
Line perpendicular to X and Z axis will be Y-axis, with positive values towards left.
+ maybe some more precise local coordinates in areas of denser population (megastations, moons). Those can be done with transmitter/receiver nav.
Likely a combination of both. The map is probably going to look a lot more like a wormhole chart from EVE if you've ever done wormhole stuff there. Not very much ingame info but a dedicated mapping organization can triangulate your position based on your distance from beacons and put you on a map contained on a website. You type in three beacons and your distance, it puts a dot on the map to show you where you are and where nearby beacons are so you have something to orient to.
If history is any indication, any faction that can do this successfully and remain militarily neutral gets something really special in the sandbox: Diplomatic Immunity
Even in the most hostile games, if you find a way to make yourself useful to everyone, and attack no one, you can actually achieve a peaceful existence. You just have to be REALLY useful.
If history is any indication, any faction that can do this successfully and remain militarily neutral gets something really special in the sandbox: Diplomatic Immunity
Even in the most hostile games, if you find a way to make yourself useful to everyone, and attack no one, you can actually achieve a peaceful existence. You just have to be REALLY useful.