A-L-E-X wrote:Source of the post I know it is being released on Steam but will it be released on the website at the same time?
Ziu wrote:Source of the post If i have to run Steam online, to use SE it is useless for me.
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HarbingerDawn wrote:A-L-E-X wrote:Source of the post I know it is being released on Steam but will it be released on the website at the same time?
https://www.reddit.com/r/spaceengine/co ... ther_faqs/Ziu wrote:Source of the post If i have to run Steam online, to use SE it is useless for me.
Steam has an offline mode.
A-L-E-X wrote:Source of the post I know it is being released on Steam but will it be released on the website at the same time? I like downloading things from here.
A-L-E-X wrote:Source of the post Two suggestions for a later release, if I may, is there any way to include an H-R chart of all stars in a field of view, so if I want to find a star of a particular type or luminosity, I can just click on its representative pixel dot in the H-R chart and it will be highlighted in the FOV or vice versa? That would be the easiest way to find the most luminous stars in an FOV or stars with unusual characteristics (white dwarfs, neutron stars, etc.)
A-L-E-X wrote:Source of the post The other suggestion was that I see you are including a separate area for real exoplanets, which is great. Will the program include all 3,840 exoplanets discovered as of November 1? And is there any way to do regular monthly updates of exoplanets which will run on program start up and automatically update with new exoplanets that have been discovered and assign them a type, terrain and size automatically based on the data we have on them?
A-L-E-X wrote:Source of the post Thanks HD, so there will be two versions if I understand correctly? The free planetarium version which is how SE is right now and the game version which will be available for a small charge? I wouldn't mind a yearly fee if it meant that a new version comes out every year! 20/yr is very reasonable!
A-L-E-X wrote:Source of the post Thanks HD, so there will be two versions if I understand correctly?
HarbingerDawn wrote:A-L-E-X wrote:Source of the post Thanks HD, so there will be two versions if I understand correctly?
Where did you get that idea from?
SpaceEngineer wrote:A-L-E-X wrote:Source of the post I know it is being released on Steam but will it be released on the website at the same time? I like downloading things from here.
No. This would require implementation of DRM protection and auto-update system. Maybe in future, if I decide to go out from Steam.A-L-E-X wrote:Source of the post Two suggestions for a later release, if I may, is there any way to include an H-R chart of all stars in a field of view, so if I want to find a star of a particular type or luminosity, I can just click on its representative pixel dot in the H-R chart and it will be highlighted in the FOV or vice versa? That would be the easiest way to find the most luminous stars in an FOV or stars with unusual characteristics (white dwarfs, neutron stars, etc.)
This is really interesting suggestion, thank you! I will consider implement it for the next version.A-L-E-X wrote:Source of the post The other suggestion was that I see you are including a separate area for real exoplanets, which is great. Will the program include all 3,840 exoplanets discovered as of November 1? And is there any way to do regular monthly updates of exoplanets which will run on program start up and automatically update with new exoplanets that have been discovered and assign them a type, terrain and size automatically based on the data we have on them?
Yes release will have updated catalog. But automatic update is impossible, because no online database exist. I mean normal database, without errors, in a computer-friendly format, and with all possible data known about stars. When I updating exoplanets catalog for SE, I always making a huge work manually checking errors, adding missing data by searching in other sources, adding orbits of binary stars if planet belongs to binary system. I use two databases - NASA exoplanet archive and exoplanet.eu, with a program which processes downloaded database files, but they have a lot or typos and errors, so manual work is needed.
But thanks to easy update system in Steam, I will be able to make monthly updates for exoplanet catalog. Monthly update is muck easier than annual, because less new planets were added to databases. Some interesting discoveries I can add immediately and push update to Steam just by a few clicks.