Guardian SLF - magic ships?

[CMDR Zadian Lichtfrost]

There some sort of wiggly swirly intangible thing holding the wings in place in the trailer, so it's clearly just force field tech like in the letterbox that no one complains about.
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Little do you know about how often I think that those force field at the entrance corridor of space stations are stupid. I was very close to add those as an example in my first posting.
Yes, very stupid force fields being able to hold back gas while being completely non existent for space ships.


All that said. It's a game. So I guess everything is good and I just will frown a bit if I see some "illogical"* things in the game.


*) as in not aligned with the axioms of the game reality or not to my liking (aka, things I can't ignore)

 

[Dutchman141]

Now that we get fighters made out of floating parts I wonder when Fdev will introduce Medichlorians.........

 

[Vardaugas]

Little do you know about how often I think that those force field at the entrance corridor of space stations are stupid. I was very close to add those as an example in my first posting.
Yes, very stupid force fields being able to hold back gas while being completely non existent for space ships.

You could explain mail slot force fields by being a magnetic bottle holding ionized or dipole gas at enough pressure to separate the atmosphere inside from the vacuum of space. Ships can pass through that. Could also explain the weird sound you hear when you do go through the mail slot as magnetic interference. You can also see gas injected in cloudy bursts, which is probably replenishing the gas barrier as ships passing through carry some with them or allow a volume to escape while breaking through the bottle field.

 

[Mxpower76]

Seems appropriate and I'm hoping somebody gets it......

"If you're wondering how he eats and breathes
And other science facts,
Just repeat to yourself "It's just a show,
I should really just relax"

 

[JaskoMaughann]

Clark's Law applies here, I believe...

 

[Dan Dare]

Built from 100% Handwavium, simples!

 

[CMDR Zadian Lichtfrost]

You could explain mail slot force fields by being a magnetic bottle holding ionized or dipole gas at enough pressure to separate the atmosphere inside from the vacuum of space. Ships can pass through that. Could also explain the weird sound you hear when you do go through the mail slot as magnetic interference. You can also see gas injected in cloudy bursts, which is probably replenishing the gas barrier as ships passing through carry some with them or allow a volume to escape while breaking through the bottle field.

Good explanation - from now on I'll accept those force fields. (Still don't think that it could work, but close enough to ignore it and move on.)

Thanks for the reply.

 

[Stigbob]

Little do you know about how often I think that those force field at the entrance corridor of space stations are stupid. I was very close to add those as an example in my first posting.
Yes, very stupid force fields being able to hold back gas while being completely non existent for space ships.


All that said. It's a game. So I guess everything is good and I just will frown a bit if I see some "illogical"* things in the game.


*) as in not aligned with the axioms of the game reality or not to my liking (aka, things I can't ignore)

I've never given this any thought at all before, but why do our shields work in one direction only.

 

[Winterwalker]

Little do you know about how often I think that those force field at the entrance corridor of space stations are stupid. I was very close to add those as an example in my first posting.
Yes, very stupid force fields being able to hold back gas while being completely non existent for space ships.

Get what you're saying but 100 years ago humans could barely fly, yet in the 21st Century Boeing have a patented force-field-esque technology and there's this (electromagnetic) one too.

By 3304 all this might be old hat so I think it's good to see the aliens can still push the boat out a bit. Sci-fi, after all. [up]

 

[Makaan]

Get what you're saying but 100 years ago humans could barely fly, yet in the 21st Century Boeing have a patented force-field-esque technology and there's this (electromagnetic) one too.

By 3304 all this might be old hat so I think it's good to see the aliens can still push the boat out a bit. Sci-fi, after all. [up]

Yeah I agree, our own technology in 1000 years could be completely unfathomable to us in the present or certainly contain things we never thought possible.

 

[CMDR Zadian Lichtfrost]

I've never given this any thought at all before, but why do our shields work in one direction only.

I usually wonder why the shields are more effective against projectiles than against energy weapons.

But yes, shields are an other of those "yea, mostly magic" things in SciFi - that's not saying that something like shields isn't possible, but usually not in the way those force shields are shown in games/movies or novels.

Shields could be locally "dropped" to let lasers or bullets from inside the shield passthrough. Would require a highly advanced and extremely gradually deployed shield system, but … SciFi

 

[PhanttoM]

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All that said. It's a game. So I guess everything is good and I just will frown a bit if I see some "illogical"* things in the game.
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Yeah, especially if the alternative would affect gameplay — I mean imagine how tedious docking would be, if we had to;

1.- Fly into a room
2.- Wait for the outer doors to close
3.- Wait for the room to pressurize
4.- Wait for the inner doors to open

It would be like adding more of the landing pad lowering/raising animations. [knocked out]

 

[playfuldreamer]

ED is now one step closer to being STO.

 

[The Lawful]

I think they look cool, and if the attachable parts were drones, nobody would have any issues. Even now, Guardians have means of making plasma balls or whatever they are spin inside their data terminals, could be they applied that tech to their spacecraft as well. One day, we'll possibly understand how that works

O7,
[noob]

 

[Garris]

I really couldn't resist this. Had to find a clean version.

 

[jojon]

[video=youtube;zPqEEZa2Gis]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPqEEZa2Gis[/video]

EDIT: Oops, didn't notice there were four more pages to this thread.

 

[Iskariot]

Magnetism not magic.

Magitism.

 

[playfuldreamer]

All of these posts talking about magnets seem to be forgetting that in the zero-G vacuum of space, your magnets would repel those fighter's bits into infinity.

 

[Ophion]

I like them but there is a problem:

If humans have recreated this guardian technology and applied it to SLF, why not apply it to all sorts of things, old or new. like tractor beams, gravity generators, all other human ships etc.? The entire galaxy should look a lot different now so that's why this new addition doesn't make sense to me.

It would make more sense if we found some ancient guardian hangar full of their ships and decided to take them for a spin

 

[Lordxenu]

I like them but there is a problem:

If humans have recreated this guardian technology and applied it to SLF, why not apply it to all sorts of things, old or new. like tractor beams, gravity generators, all other human ships etc.? The entire galaxy should look a lot different now so that's why this new addition doesn't make sense to me.



It would make more sense if we found some ancient guardian hangar full of their ships and decided to take them for a spin

You're right I've figured it out!!!!!!!!!!!

Guardian fighters = artificial holdy together things
artificial holdy together things = artificial gravity
artificial gravity = space-legs!!

Therefore 3.2 = space-legs

Confirmed and guaranteed I will hear no different!!