Posted by: SteveAlt
« on: June 13, 2008, 06:13:45 AM »Quote from: "ShadoCat"
OK, someone had to ask it....No you will need to specify it. As LPs move I really don't want to have to get into calculating the relative positions of planets and LPs at some point in the future and estimating the best option.
In the future, will the movement orders take into account the LP?
If you set a destination to a planet and the shortest time is through an LP, will the ship head to the LP or will you have to specify it?
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I don't think you need WP theory to use them since you might end up there anyway looking at trapped asteroids (look at Jupiter's L4 and L5).I agree
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That brings out the question: what happens to the asteroids in the L5 position (or do we assume that SJs don't trap asteroids)?At the moment Aurora doesn't generate Trojan asteroids although it is something I have considered. They tend to cluster around the L4 and L5 points in our own system without all being in a group at the exact point so it would be possible to add some and it might give some added interest to the new Lagrange points if there were some asteroids around their location.
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Odd thought: if Jupiter can capture asteroids, could a SJ capture a habitable planet? If so, would it bounce between multiple SJs LPs?
This is something else I have considered. I am not an expert but the idea of a trojan planet at the L4 or L5 point of a large gas giant sounds plausible (astronomy experts please jump in here to correct me). I like the suggestion Erik made further down the thread that powered flight is necessary for accessing the lagrange points as that would neatly explain why system bodies didn't jump.
I think I will probably take a look at adding some oddities to the system generation at some point and maybe we can have a thread on suggestions for that.
Steve