Forum:Longitude error

When you look at a sphere or planet from a proper distance you see about half of it. It's called a hemisphere. If you count the longitudinal lines (the vertical ones from pole to pole) when you are scanning a planet for minerals, you will see about 18 lines and 18 regions making up the 180 degrees of the hemisphere you are looking at. It is the same on a globe or atlas map. The longitudes are separated by 10 degrees. That is as it should be.

Now scan and stick to one latitude, say the equator, and count the longitudinal lines as you scan around the globe. There are 50 of them in Mass Effect 2! But there should only be 36 for a 360 degree circle. The extra 14 are almost as much as an entire "third hemisphere". No wonder the scanning is so slow. I much more enjoyed the Mako in Mass Effect. It was fun to drive and fire. It hooked me on the game. I really hope they replace probing things like Uranus, and go back to driving something like the Mako in ME 3. Does anyone know if they will?