What does it mean when the station has arms?

Warmaster Will

Warmaster Will
I just saw a new station the standard orb but with arms sticking out.
Is this just for looks or does this show it is a super station with great trade,ships,mods?
 

Robert Maynard

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Robert Maynard
The ends of the arms would have high(er) centripetal force induced gravity than the skin of the station - beyond that, I can only guess as to why the station has the arms fitted.
 

Ceekay

Ceekay
It means you really really need to remember it had arms when you're leaving, I lost a T6 to one of those :(
 

Hank

H
Ceekay said:
It means you really really need to remember it had arms when you're leaving, I lost a T6 to one of those :(
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^^ this
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Those have been around since early beta. I stopped off at one and when I left, my destination was opposite the mail slot side of the station. I totally forgot about those arms and as I turned and headed to the back of the station ... BAM!!! I got hit. Scared the c r a p out of me then I realized what it was that hit me. Did not destroy my ship though but my pride was hurt that I was so dumb..
 
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Elpapo

Elpapo
Someone who lives on these stations likes higher Gravity at ends of these. Other known uses are for trolling cmdrs in T6, who foget about them.

Yup, Noobhammers its fitting name for them.
 
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Sapyx

Sapyx
To sum up: yes, they're purely cosmetic. They add nothing in terms of extra benefits at stations that have them. And, as others above have stated, they're a navigational hazard if you're travelling to or from the region behind the station.

Why are they there? Aesthetics, plus a graphical tribute to the way Coriolis space stations looked in the previous version of the game (Frontier: Elite 2). They usually had four arms back then, one on each spinning face.
 

Raith

Raith
As mentioned earlier the long arms would have a much higher simulated Gravity factor, I would assume that they are used for acclimatizing people for work on say a high-G world or for either High-G science experiments or even the extraction of elements from various compounds which are easier to separate under some conditions (think those little blood separating machines).

That's all assuming that the extremes of a Coriolis port is at simulated 1 G... I'd have to math things but given their spin rate and size I expect that they don't revolve at a full G, probably closer to 0.75g, the inner docking area is meant to only be 0.1g or 0.2g. That would then make the arms a full G simulator.

They could also be a type of power converted, theirs some old design concepts from NASA I think about building long armed stations that spin and interact with magnetic fields from jovians to generate power or something...
 

ShoeHash

ShoeHash
Raith said:
As mentioned...long armed stations that spin and interact with magnetic fields from jovians to generate power or something...
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Oh my god! Such simplicity. A station with EM shielding, tumbling, like a leaf amongst the heaviest stones. It went like this: the fires on earth burned but only to the ninth degree and oh how simply many of us understand now. We'llall throw our lead into the mold amongste the nonprofit grinding bass driven keytar tones of the 1980s. The apple 7 triumphed because we only had apple 7 left. And we played elite. But we all have to let go of something.

In the year 2080 i will surely be dead, so I just bought a vr controller fir mi tv set.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k1cyzM7UqyM
 
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