So let me get this straight...
- Thread starter PANTHER STARFORCE
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We don't really know how its all going to work yet or what it will look like.
Logically, they should have artificial gravity in ED, or something that resembles gravity (other than magnetic boots and spinning stations).
Stations have a forcefield that stops air escaping through the mailslot. Our ships have shields that can stop bullets and explosions. So all you'd need is a weak forcefield generator that "scrolls downward", dragging everything towards the floor. Maybe it consumes more power than spinning a station would.
Stations have a forcefield that stops air escaping through the mailslot. Our ships have shields that can stop bullets and explosions. So all you'd need is a weak forcefield generator that "scrolls downward", dragging everything towards the floor. Maybe it consumes more power than spinning a station would.
futurama tubes would be awesome!
there’s really no difference between complete lack of variety and endless variety without distinction.
Hahahaha! There's no comeback for that one mate
Although I was disappointed that nobody went with the vanilla ice
Don't forget, those magical forcefields pick and choose what they block too. We bend space with devices that fit into what amounts to be a car. But we draw the line at applying that bending of space to mimic gravity (and what that would mean for the center of gravity for a ship in terms of flight characteristics).
Gotta stay real ...like in how real supercharging fuel is yet only getting one jump despite all of your fuel getting exposed to the same radiation.
The game is as "hard sci fi" as a 2 month old banana from a gas station. I would not oppose artificial gravity as a system that can be turned on and off at will but require significant power and can't be operated at the same time as Supercruise/jumps. Mag boots would be used in those situations (or in lieu of ag altogether).
(edit) Basically, the jump drive creates a field under the ship and disables the inertial dampeners that protect everything inside the ship from feeling the effects of supercruise. This below ship field is felt then by all things inside the ship (including the ship), and the ship opposes it with thrusters. So the ship's bottom thrusters must constantly accelerate at 1g to oppose the gravity field.
Boom, Give me a corp Fdev, I've invented artificial gravity within the game universe lore. Let me know when Sirius buys me out so i can deposit enough credits in my carrier to have it exist until the end of time without caring about upkeep.
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Hence my global need to bring him back to the limelight. Like MC Hammer.
Dang right.
Mag boots sounds cool on paper, but there is a reason why magnetic objects aren't allowed on aircraft even now. Its because it interferes with the flight instruments, so I don't know why people are even suggesting such a thing in a flight game just because 'The Expanse' series made it look "plausible", its really not.
If mag boots hurt space ship instruments.. you're gonna have a lot more problems than just mag boots. The magnetic flux from outer space would kill everything.
Unlike stupid airplanes that are under the protection of the earth's force field, space ships have to already protect their electronics from magnetism.
It would be perfectly safe.
Besides, Utopia's about to be a huge new player on the economic landscape.
Ugravitronics: A new Utopian led company utilizing cutting edge jump drive technology is going to market with a new device that will revolutionize the elite dangerous galaxy.
The refinement to the jump drive created by Ugravitronics re-directs what we know as the supercruise effect to be below the ship instead of in front of it while simultaneously dis-engaging the shielding effect the system has to the object within the "bubble" of it's compression and expansion. This creates a gravity-like effect below the ship and a slight anti-gravity like effect above it. The engineers at Utopia's Ugravitronics have fine tuned the system to allow multiple gravity settings. The ship's "bottom" thrusters are expertly tuned to compensate with the jump drive to create any gravity between fractions of 1g to multiple G's depending on the strength of the ship's thrusters.
Normal ship movement is possible. In this Gen 1 version of the tech, supercruise is not possible while the anti-gravity effect is active. However Ugravitronics engineers hope to be able to isolate the AG effect within the larger supercruise effect using a smaller secondary jump drive specifically created to only produce the low energy field needed for artificial gravity without destabilizing the primary jump drive.
While Ugravitronics is a private company operated out of Utopia, we are open to investments from interested parties in licensing our technology.
Ugravitronics: A new Utopian led company utilizing cutting edge jump drive technology is going to market with a new device that will revolutionize the elite dangerous galaxy.
The refinement to the jump drive created by Ugravitronics re-directs what we know as the supercruise effect to be below the ship instead of in front of it while simultaneously dis-engaging the shielding effect the system has to the object within the "bubble" of it's compression and expansion. This creates a gravity-like effect below the ship and a slight anti-gravity like effect above it. The engineers at Utopia's Ugravitronics have fine tuned the system to allow multiple gravity settings. The ship's "bottom" thrusters are expertly tuned to compensate with the jump drive to create any gravity between fractions of 1g to multiple G's depending on the strength of the ship's thrusters.
Normal ship movement is possible. In this Gen 1 version of the tech, supercruise is not possible while the anti-gravity effect is active. However Ugravitronics engineers hope to be able to isolate the AG effect within the larger supercruise effect using a smaller secondary jump drive specifically created to only produce the low energy field needed for artificial gravity without destabilizing the primary jump drive.
While Ugravitronics is a private company operated out of Utopia, we are open to investments from interested parties in licensing our technology.
What are Elite Dangerous ships using to protect against magnetism though? Where is the lore at for it? I'm sure they can make up practically anything since this is science fiction.
the same thing all space ships have to use for it. even today. The electronics are encased in faraday cages. It doesn't take huge magnets to be able to anchor a person and they're walking on floors. Floors which can be isolated from magnetic interference to any wires that may be utilized. Not that communication would be electric based in this time frame, it would all almost certainly be optical if wired at all. You're not walking on the control surfaces.
Don’t instance VR players with non-VR players. That was mind bogglingly tricky
I think the point is though, that this issue already exists with space ships. Fdev didn't and doesn't care about it. There's no reason to think they'd suddenly care when it came to walking around.
This is why you never see your avatar put their feet up on the control console, of course, even when left to do nothing in supercruise for ten minutes.
