ninsegtari
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 Posted: Tuesday, 03 November 2009 02:29PM |
By using Solar System Live and setting it to the proper year (2183), you can see the predicted position of the planets. It is a VERY minor detail, but never-the-less it was somewhat disappointing to see that the solar system in ME1 was inaccurate. For instance, Uranus and Neptune should be opposite of Jupiter and Saturn.
There is also the "issue" of the Kuiper Belt (an trans-Neptunian asteroid belt which contains Pluto). It was missing from ME1.
Probably nit-picking, but I'm a stickler for those mundane-details. |
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NKKKK
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Posted: Tuesday, 03 November 2009 02:48PM |
Hey it's cool bro, I was a littled uunerved too, but I had to fight flying things that were shooting me so W/E.
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armass
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Posted: Tuesday, 03 November 2009 03:00PM |
Who cares, really.
There was no asteroid belt either between Jupiter and Mars.. |
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ahather
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Posted: Tuesday, 03 November 2009 03:02PM |
i can't say i noticed - i wouldn't have thought to look it up - hay what did you use to find out
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Mr. MannlyMan
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Posted: Tuesday, 03 November 2009 03:10PM |
That would have been pretty cool if they had done that... but I guess their attention is better spent on the actual gameplay rather than minor details.
I mean, the people who've commented so far have said "Who cares?" and "Whatever?". I bet you that if Bioware had actually picked up on that minor detail and a poster had pointed it out to other forumers, the response would have been more like "That's cool!" and "OMG Bioware pays so much attention to detail it's amazing!".
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GmanFresh
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Posted: Tuesday, 03 November 2009 03:16PM |
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meh we barely had any missions in the luna system |
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Beerfish
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Posted: Tuesday, 03 November 2009 08:20PM |
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The Mass effect fields caused a fundamental shift in how things advance. That and the fact that the Reapers blew away a few things thus any extrapolation from now to the date of ME1 is meaningless because many things change along the way. |
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Ieldra2
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Posted: Tuesday, 03 November 2009 08:25PM |
Quote: Posted 11/03/09 20:20 (GMT) by Beerfish
The Mass effect fields caused a fundamental shift in how things advance. That and the fact that the Reapers blew away a few things thus any extrapolation from now to the date of ME1 is meaningless because many things change along the way.
Some "solutions" are even sillier than the original problem.... Better let the very minor flaw stand with no better explanation than "it's a mapping mistake".
BTW, I'm firmly in the camp of those who say: if Bioware had addressed that minor detail, it would have been way cool. But as inconsistencies come, there are bigger fish to fry in the ME universe. Very much bigger ones.Edited By Ieldra2 on 11/03/09 20:29 |
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Stanley Woo
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Posted: Tuesday, 03 November 2009 09:09PM |
A space wizard did it. 
That's the "fiction" part of science fiction.
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scyphozoa
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Posted: Tuesday, 03 November 2009 10:05PM |
yeah i don't really see the need for accuracy in the solar system. i love space telemetry and the position of planets and a lack of asteroids didn't hamper my enjoyment of the game in the least. meh
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PiercedMonk
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Posted: Tuesday, 03 November 2009 10:20PM |
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I'd never really thought about that, but it would have been really cool had the development team taken that little extra step. Something most people would never notice if it wasn't pointed out to them, but very cool none the less. |
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Wydraz
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Posted: Wednesday, 04 November 2009 12:15AM |
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Meh. |
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Andorfiend
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Posted: Wednesday, 04 November 2009 04:10AM |
I dunno, I'd say that's actually fairly minor compared to the fact that the Earth is on backwards.
Seriously. Next time your on Luna take a look up. The last time I checked the Baja Peninsula is on the west coast of North America, not the east... |
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Shotokanguy
Joined: 21 Dec 2008 |
Posted: Wednesday, 04 November 2009 04:14AM |
Quote: Posted 11/03/09 15:00 (GMT) by armass
Who cares, really.
There was no asteroid belt either between Jupiter and Mars..
Yes there was.
I don't care about it. That's something you have to go out of your way to see, and I don't enjoy looking for flaws.
Now that we've mentioned it, they'll probably fix it in ME2 if they need to. |
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Sursion
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Posted: Wednesday, 04 November 2009 04:26AM |
Quote: Posted 11/03/09 15:00 (GMT) by armass
There was no asteroid belt either between Jupiter and Mars..
Fail. There certainly was. |
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