Luclin returns..?

[Sweetened]

<a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v208/lostcomposure/?action=view&current=Luclinexplodes.flv" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">HERE IS A FRAPS VIDEO OF THE EVENT</a>You know, Since I began playing a couple years ago I have spend a lot of time watching that graphic of luclin in the sky.  Now I know it's weaved together and apart.  I also know it's looked together for a few seconds before it splits back apart again.However.  Things have changed.Luclin is together, one cataclysmic impact in motion.  It's exploding intensely along the line where it use to remain split, its surrounding debree(sp) has come closer together in a circular motion as scientists have reported planets doing for years.  Discovery channel for the win.  Take a look at the sky when next you can and let me know what you think.Is this our next expansion?

[Kane]

Look at it from a different zone.. you'll see it looks the same as it always has.. this question has been asked a lot of times in the past.. hopefully one day it will be true though <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img mce_tsrc=" />

[Sweetened]

I have, which is the only reason I posted this.  I've looked at it from Antonica, Commonlands, Everfrost, Tenebrous Tangle, Bonemire, Thundering Steppes and Barren Sky.  The graphic is very different.

[VladisSar]

<p>Some parts of Luclin must have survived!!!</p><p>I realy hope a little chunk of it still flying somewhere contaning Sssra and Vex Thal - my 2 favored raidign zones =)</p>

[Cusashorn]

<p>This is the same thread that pops up every week. LUCLIN ROTATES. You keep thinking the moon is changing because:</p><p>1. You're not used to looking at it from the current surface it's showing.</p><p>2. It's visual clarity differs from zone to zone. Qeynos is generally one of the better areas to observe it from.</p>

[Sweetened]

As I stated before, I have looked at it from different zones, I -understand- it rotated.  this is -not- rotation.  this is plain and simply EXPLOSIONS.  Look before you yell at me that it's rotating.

[troodon]

Seriously, people have been claiming this since the first month of release.  Luclin is not reforming.

[Themaginator]

<cite>Sweetened wrote:</cite><blockquote>As I stated before, I have looked at it from different zones, I -understand- it rotated.  this is -not- rotation.  this is plain and simply EXPLOSIONS.  Look before you yell at me that it's rotating.</blockquote>NO NO NO I promise you its rotating this thread really does pop up every week...LUCLIN IS NOT CHANGING PEOPLE GO BACK TO YOUR DAILY EQLIVES

[ke'la]

Someone please Fraps this to show people that it is NOT exploding it is just doing what is always does and is sometimes showing the side that is massivly cracked and sometimes showing the side that is hardly cracked at all and sometimes showing the side that is parsially cracked.

[Wilde_Night]

Luclin rotates?  Does it rotate more than the Earth's moon? If not then we should always see the same side facing us.  If it does, then Norrath itself has some wierd gravitational thing going on.

[Vanisher123]

<p>First, why pay attention to Luclin (though I do want it back) when there is a moon named after a dream diety yet to be discovered.</p><p>On the note of Luclin, did my graphics change in an update or somthing or has the chunk of luclin in crator pond gained a more green glow?</p>

[Sweetened]

<a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v208/lostcomposure/?action=view&current=Luclinexplodes.flv" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">HERE IS A LINK TO A FRAPS VIDEO OF LUCLIN EXPLODING</a>THERE ARE NO CRACKS LEFT, PEOPLE.  Stop coming in here and yelling at me when I -know- you haven't logged in to look first.

[Kamimura]

Huh.. I don't see that at all. Just did some porting around with my warden to check it out.. Luclin looks the same as ever in Tenebrous Tangle, Antonica, Qeynos, and the Commonlands.. Barren Sky. Thundering Steppes. Everfrost..I'm just not seeing the exploding like you are.Anyone else seeing exploding?

[Themaginator]

IT HAS ALWAYS DONE THAT gosh man its normal nothing has changed i promise you itd be extremely noticeable if something had changed people say this every [I cannot control my vocabulary] week     and its always the same stupid claim...either its exploding or its coming back together.what you are seeing is a graphical glitch with Luclin and lighting that may look like flashes...the rest is rotation or the angle of the view.  it has ALWAYS DONE THIS from day freakin one

[Wyrmypops]

<p>I saw Elvis in Antonica. <img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" /></p><p>I'd say though, whenever I'm a screenshot taking mode, I tend exhibity more wide spatial awareness than I normally do. Looking up and around for decent sunsets and backgrounds. But ain't noticed a change in the moon. I'd rather I had, but I ain't.  </p>

[Thoronve]

<p>Sweetened - I have watched that FRAPS video VERY carefully. Several times in fact. This is what I see - </p><p>I see the main core of Luclin growing brighter (and dimming also). I see the mouse moving around the core as if to say - 'watch here'.</p><p>I surmise this to mean that you think because of the change in brightness, then Luclin is exploding.</p><p>Let's forget for one moment that IF Luclin were exploding there would be massive gravitational impact on Norrath (as in the 'original' upheaval of all the lands). Let's forget for one moment that even our RL moon were exploding, you would not see any fast movement of Moon-chunks, because it is so far away (Although you may see a change in the albedo (brightness) IF it was Fire / Nuclear / Magical blast.....)</p><p>No - what I see in the video is... clouds. Clouds traveling across the face of Norrath, partially obscuring the view of Luclin - and just as in RL, this affects that apparent brightness! If you watch to the left of the main body of luclin you can see the cloud moving.</p><p>Personally, I think it's cool that the Devs put the mechanism for the clouds doing this.</p><p>But no - I don't see Luclin exploding I'm afraid.</p><p>-Thoronve-</p>

[Themaginator]

<cite>Thoronve wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Sweetened - I have watched that FRAPS video VERY carefully. Several times in fact. This is what I see - </p><p>I see the main core of Luclin growing brighter (and dimming also). I see the mouse moving around the core as if to say - 'watch here'.</p><p>I surmise this to mean that you think because of the change in brightness, then Luclin is exploding.</p><p>Let's forget for one moment that IF Luclin were exploding there would be massive gravitational impact on Norrath (as in the 'original' upheaval of all the lands). Let's forget for one moment that even our RL moon were exploding, you would not see any fast movement of Moon-chunks, because it is so far away (Although you may see a change in the albedo (brightness) IF it was Fire / Nuclear / Magical blast.....)</p><p>No - what I see in the video is... clouds. Clouds traveling across the face of Norrath, partially obscuring the view of Luclin - and just as in RL, this affects that apparent brightness! If you watch to the left of the main body of luclin you can see the cloud moving.</p><p>Personally, I think it's cool that the Devs put the mechanism for the clouds doing this.</p><p>But no - I don't see Luclin exploding I'm afraid.</p><p>-Thoronve-</p></blockquote>thread over lol

[shadowscale]

<cite>Sashtan@Mistmoore wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite></cite>thread over lol</blockquote>till next week when someone else claims to have seen something. unfortunaly its never over.

[Wilde_Night]

*Still awaiting an answer to her question on page one*

[Norrsken]

<cite>Aeviel@Venekor wrote:</cite><blockquote>*Still awaiting an answer to her question on page one*</blockquote>As an answer, satellites doesnt have to rotate in relation to the mass they hang around. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> Just look at our very own solar system for examples of that. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> We even have a planet rotating on its side compared to the others.

[Cusashorn]

<cite>Vanisher123 wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>First, why pay attention to Luclin (though I do want it back) when there is a moon named after a dream diety yet to be discovered.</p></blockquote><p>Morrell Thule, God of Dreams, does not have a moon named after him.</p><p>The lifeless, airless, atmosphereless dead rock up in the sky called Drinal is named after the Natural Spirit of Death (not a god.)</p>

[StormCinder]

<p>The three main pieces are definitely moving with relation to each other.  But, I agree that this motion has been the same since day one.</p><p>SC</p><p>If anyone from the government asks...you saw the planet Venus.  That's all...the planet Venus.</p>

[NANEEJE]

<cite>Wyrmypops wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>I saw Elvis in Antonica. <img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" /> </p></blockquote>Nope, that was just my "deflection dance" as I tried to outrun a heroic... sorry!

[steelbadger]

<cite>Aeviel@Venekor wrote:</cite><blockquote>Luclin rotates?  Does it rotate more than the Earth's moon? If not then we should always see the same side facing us.  If it does, then Norrath itself has some wierd gravitational thing going on.</blockquote>While it is true that most known moons are tidally locked to their respective planet there are a couple of reasons for a moon to be not tidally locked.  The first is that it could be too far away (Not the case) or that it (like Saturn's Hyperion) is being disrupted by other forces.  I'd probably count blowing up in the last few hundred years as a "disruption" <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />Also, the other moon (Drinal?) is probably about earth moon size as well, two such large satellites would likely have an effect on each other.

[Ardnahoy]

<cite>VladisSar wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Some parts of Luclin must have survived!!!</p><p>I realy hope a little chunk of it still flying somewhere contaning Sssra and Vex Thal - my 2 favored raidign zones =)</p></blockquote><p>Oh yes. Lets go back to a stupidly long and tedious keying process for VT. So then we can go and do some stupidly long and tedious VT raiding. I can't wait.</p>

[Zin`Car]

<p>Luclin blew up.  game over.  thanks for playing.  Nothing to see here.  These aren't the droids you are looking for.  Move along.</p><p>As for Aeviel's question:  Thinking Norrath and its satellites are the same as Earth and its moon is probably a bad assumption to make.  If you doa search, you will find a very extensive post (of mine) discussing the relation of our calendars and how drastically different they are.  Norrath nearly double (or something like that... have to dig up the post) the number of weeks as the standard 365 day calendar.</p><p>Thinking that anything in regards to Norrath has even the most remote relation to Earth simply should not be done.  Unfortunately, the confusion and misconceptions of such things tend to be further perpetuated due to the SOE staff implimenting events such as frostfell and so forth along the same timelines as when we celebrate similar holidays.</p><p>Bottom line, there should never be any consideration of a direct translation of what happens in real life and what happens in game.  If luclin is rotating at 45k rpms and our moon spins @ 2 (not correct so dont bother) then so be it.  There is no relation</p>

[Nogger]

<cite>Wyrmypops wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>I saw Elvis in Antonica. <img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" /></p></blockquote>Hmm I saw Elfis there before, but no Elvis.

[Leatherneck]

<cite>Ardnahoy@The Bazaar wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>VladisSar wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Some parts of Luclin must have survived!!!</p><p>I realy hope a little chunk of it still flying somewhere contaning Sssra and Vex Thal - my 2 favored raidign zones =)</p></blockquote><p>Oh yes. Lets go back to a<b> stupidly long and tedious keying process for VT</b>. So then we can go and do some <b>stupidly long and tedious VT raiding</b>. I can't wait.</p></blockquote>+1  I did that stupid VT key twice.

[sindarin]

lol..this thread reminds me of the van in that animated movie "cars" my son watches all the time. vw bus, and a jeep are looking at a blinking street light, and the vw bus (60's guy) says:"I'm telling ya man..every third blink is slower"

[hobi]

wellif you think about it in scientific terms the reason planets have gravity is due to a planets rotation. and if luclin is rotating as some people state then that would mean the moon will have a gravity field around it generated from the ratation and the gravity could in turn cause the moon over time to  pull itself back together  probably not into a sphere an more of a clump unless the gravity is strong enough to force  the debree  into a ball.  this has been proven to happen as scientist recently discovered with asteriods and what they call proto moons/planets  and explains one of the moons around mars. (science/nasa channels ftw)now if it wasn't rotating  and still exploding then that could not  happen and norrath would end up with a ring around  it similar to Saturn.curious thing about this  is if the moon exploded  it would be  small particles by now as the  would have happened very rapidly but since that hasn't happened and a large part of the moon is till seen and appear to rotate then that would support the theory/fact that luclin is in the process of reforming itself. and will eventuall be wjole again. but any  cities  and remains of civilization would be long gone due to the act of it being slit apart and reformed would have wiped everything out and who know if reformed it may not be habitable again as the atmosphere could have been destroyed in the process.but the point is there can be a case made to supports one day  we may return to luclin. it also supports the fact  we may never  be able to return.so this argument will be the one the dev's are gonna have to decide.