Not a bug, but an oddity

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You got the orbit of the moon right, but it orbits the earth so fast that an observer on earth will see it rise in the WEST and set in the EAST. It just looks weird to see the moon orbiting faster than the rotation of the earth... Not to mention that all life on earth would probably be wiped out by the enormous tidal stresses the moon would put on the earth... if the moon could somehow stay in orbit without shattering into a zillion pieces or go flying off into space.

Bill
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Sure the tides may be a threat, but not as much a threat as the ten hostile alien races whose home planets are within one-month's travel of Earth.

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Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Ah it's science fiction, imagination, it doesn't have to be real. In RPGs that have real-time a day passes in 24 min, not realistic but the only other option would be for it to be day time all day long.
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Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
by that time the moon would be so far from earth that it may not matter anyways

oh and the moon is flying off into space
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I understand also that the craters on the darkside are actually rendered 2km nearer to the northern lunar pole based off a baseline corresponding to the lunar equator.   
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
On average, high tides occur 12 hours 24 minutes apart. The 12 hours is due to the Earth's rotation, and the 24 minutes to the Moon's orbit. So pocket calculations say the Eather is spinning at about 30rpms (30 days) to the moons approximate 1 orbit monthly orbit around the Earth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tides