Yeah, clockwise=anticlockwise just looked at from a different direction.

here are few pics showing what I mean, obtained from a simulator (Celestia). from pic1 to pic3 we can see Io transit in fron of Jupiter from left to right, while Jupiter itself rotate around its axis in the same direction.

danilo

Yeah, gotta get that "reality" stuff down, to make conquering a galaxy with a bunch of alien races using FTL technology believeable

Yeah, uranus is wierd.

To Stardock You know what, DONT SPEND TIME FIXING THIS!

To the dude who noticed, Turn your monitor upside down if it bothers you or do a clean install or Windows, and reformat your harddrive while you're at it and let the developers develop something worth while.

It's a game not a space sim.

Let's get our terminology right: it's "widdershins" and "deosil" (or "deiseil").

The request for the fix was an honest request based on data presented in a decent format. For the neigh sayers, please remember that for every one person who asks for something another dozen have thought of it but are to afraid to ask.

I personally have seen some outrageous requests made by many more other folks in these forums. If you feel that the request for the item to be changed is not worthy of time perhaps you should suggest things in a more orderly fashion that you feel should be fixed first.

IMO (which is never humble) everyone has a right to ask for a fix on something, however, the right to be ridiculed over it is never someone elses place to give, despite what some folks think and believe.

W/R
Suralle Straykat
Kat Lord @ Large

I'll admit I my post came out quite a bit more harsh than silly (the latter being the intention, of course), and for that I apologize. The truth is that I figure it's a valid enough suggestion, if only because it would be trivial to implement, and would serve to enhance the immersive quality of the game for those who are aware of that sort of thing; it's just that the vast majority of people would either never notice, or wouldn't care about it either way.

One does have to admit, though: because of how the last sentence or so of his original post was worded, he unwittingly set himself up for being read as though he thinks it's a problem that's as serious as a gameplay-related bug (as opposed to the trivial cosmetic inconsistency that he really knows it to be). It's the sort of thing that can easily give a reader the wrong idea.

Given that reasoning, I think we can ultimately scratch all this off as being an accident due to the language barrier and the inherent limitations of the textual format.

The theory is that solar systems form in a swirling mass of dust and gas. Once you have that angular momentum going, it's difficult to alter it. So all the major bodies in a given solar system are likely to exhibit similar characteristics. And consequently, any bodies which formed as satellites of those major bodies are likely to toe the line too.

Of course not all the bodies in the solar system follow the rule. But over millions of years the leftovers from the creation of the solar system are likely to wander around in less predictable orbits, pushed around by various gravitational influences. When they eventually smash into things or even have a near miss, they can cause radical changes to the bodies they encounter.

The OP is correct that if all the moons revolve the wrong way, it's mostly inconsistent with what we understand about the mechanical energy in a system being conserved. I'm not saying that it desperately needs changing, but if it's just a case of reversing a simple animation, how long is that going to take?