Pretty sure ships have gotten significantly faster by abusing the gravity bug, or even those shock mines.
e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob7Kb8hY0EY
Fastest in an SRV though, little doubt.
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Pretty sure ships have gotten significantly faster by abusing the gravity bug, or even those shock mines.
e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob7Kb8hY0EY
Fastest in an SRV though, little doubt.
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Broke his phone.
well, to be fair, he got his SRV to 1300 m/s under its own power by itself, without any shock mines or force shells or any other bug. just driving it as hard as it would go. so, technically its still the fastest thing outside of supercruise, or any "hacks" or whatever. [haha]
Here are some highlights from my runs:
https://youtu.be/kEBj7e-5J2E
hope you enjoy.
Sorry about probably low quality, been a while since ive made a proper video and using a new bit of software.
https://youtu.be/kEBj7e-5J2E
hope you enjoy.
Sorry about probably low quality, been a while since ive made a proper video and using a new bit of software.
Pardon my ramblings, but I'm still awe-struck by those sub-10 min times... and I went and did some quick calculations (**may contain mistakes, since I failed maths in school**)
Distance of Lopez from Kings Holdings - 67 km (rounded)
Example of a sub-10 min time - 6 min 13 secs
If I were to travel at 67 km/h it'd take me 1 hour to reach Lopez (18 m/s)
But Nookie reached in just 6 mins 13 secs (373 seconds)
His speed would have to be 179.6 m/s to reach Lopez in 373 seconds (67km / 373 seconds)
His ground speed would have to be (179.6 *60 *60), ie 646.5 km/h
Bloody heck! That's faster than many propeller planes, and faster than even some jet-engine planes!
Distance of Lopez from Kings Holdings - 67 km (rounded)
Example of a sub-10 min time - 6 min 13 secs
If I were to travel at 67 km/h it'd take me 1 hour to reach Lopez (18 m/s)
But Nookie reached in just 6 mins 13 secs (373 seconds)
His speed would have to be 179.6 m/s to reach Lopez in 373 seconds (67km / 373 seconds)
His ground speed would have to be (179.6 *60 *60), ie 646.5 km/h
Bloody heck! That's faster than many propeller planes, and faster than even some jet-engine planes!
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Gets even more impressive: that's just his average speed. Assuming constant acceleration (which I know probably didn't happen) gives a top speed of 360m/s or 1300km/h, which as a side note is just over the current land speed record (1228km/h) and the speed of sound in air (1235km/h).
oh the joys of low gravity and a lacking atmosphere. be interesting to see how srvs behave differently when we get atmos planet landings.
edit: looking back at posts realised this has already been covered under the max speed posts. thought that was from a different event.
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Also the joys of collision detection / damage that's a bit of a dice roll.
Hitting the ground above 300 might instantly pulverize you, do no damage at all, or anything in between. It's a factor that can be influenced, but not entirely controlled. Also the joys of collision detection / damage that's a bit of a dice roll.
not sure how broken it would be if they introduced hovering srvs. travel faster, take less damage/go over obstacles, maybe with shorter range and less of a boost up?
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I figured somebody ought to post this for those that haven't actually seen it ...
[video=youtube_share;-3lqEUbQY48]https://youtu.be/-3lqEUbQY48[/video]
P.S. Nitrogue ... really looking forward to seeing your highlights video but I'm not back to decent wifi until Sunday.
[video=youtube_share;-3lqEUbQY48]https://youtu.be/-3lqEUbQY48[/video]
P.S. Nitrogue ... really looking forward to seeing your highlights video but I'm not back to decent wifi until Sunday.
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dont get your hopes up
saw a ghost giraffe video where they also got into orbit, by climbing the galaxy's tallest mountain. it reaches supercruise height and physics get a bit weird at that point.
Yeah, mount Neverest (as it's known) is cool. Alas it's been nerfed slightly as the top is no longer outside the exclusion zone.
Those were fun times [big grin][up] Also your ship is faaast
Pity it slammed into the ground in the race :/oh that's a shame, kind of had that on my bucket list
Those were fun times [big grin][up] Also your ship is faaast
yeah they were. thanks, ship is fairly fast, and not optimised, might consider it as a base for a racing ship. it is a shame about smashing it, but kind of hare and tortoise, evened the playing field. if I wasn't too concerned about sticking to the height limit, having a higher height limit, or generally being more careful (not boosting going into a crater) might have had a different result. would also have been interesting having my ship against nookie's srv.
LOL - so many different ways to screw up!
did have another one where I crashed into the solar panels at the start, unfortunately couldn't find the clip. any particular favourites?
glad you like it.
The timing of the mid-air repair fail was a classic, crashing into the skimmer pretty funny and as for the hamster ball ... don't try that in VR kids! [wacky]
well glad you liked it
the mid air happen several times, think computer lagged out sometimes and didn't register the pressing of the button to activate it
in hindsight, the skimmer was completely avoidable, probably just got tunnel vision and didn't see it
and the last point I'm guessing the technical term is filling the bucket?