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The Universe Within 12.5 Light Years

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266 points algorithmista | 1 comments | 05 Sep 25 22:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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arkaic ◴[06 Sep 25 02:14 UTC] No.45145988[source]▶
For getting the feel of the milky way, I think there's nothing that is better able to simulate it than a video game, ala Elite Dangerous. I loved to navigate its galaxy map. The size of the Milky Way, the numbers of stars and distances between them are of scale in there if I recall correctly.
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1. Martin_Silenus ◴[06 Sep 25 17:53 UTC] No.45151410[source]▶
Everything in "Elite: Dangerous" is about getting scales right, contrary to most of its concurrent games. That was amazing from the beginning for planets scale, to systems scale, until you realize it is also right at galaxy scale.

To me, it's a pitty that Braben finally dropped realistic newtonian physics (limited velocity is simply a plague in 99% of space games, period... and sure, I don't talk about FTL travel) in such realistic scales. Complete paradox.