G-force limit exceeded

Defect0r · May 22, 2015

777Driver said:
I'm not talking about FSD, just normal space & boosting. Hey it's all fantasy & just a game, but honestly, no point point trying to make rational excuses, maneuvers in these ships would kill anyone made of flesh and blood. G loading in these ships are beyond extreme..

Yes, sorry I was just trying to surmise why we have any G loadings at all and don't have some kind of dampers.

Unlike on Earth, at idle there would be 0g, right? So presumably the only force being exerted would be just inertia, like the stations? If don't know, my head hurts!

SirAdelaide · May 23, 2015

No, on Earth you experience 1 G, ie 1 normal gravity acceleration of 9.81 m/s^2.

430 m/s after 2 seconds boost implies an acceleration of 215 m/s^2, which is 22 G.

Wikipedia says a human can withstand that sort of acceleration for a second or two.http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Human_linear_acceleration_tolerance.svg

AlexRyder · May 23, 2015

Gforce effects are good and all but if you can manouver at FTL speeds surely they are irrelevant?

SteveMallam · May 23, 2015

Happened to me for the first time yesterday too (and I've been playing a couple of hour a day, on average, since beta 1)

Pitched down hard at max speed in my Vulture and started to red-out.

Hard to believe I've never done that before!

Defect0r · May 23, 2015

AlexRyder said:
Gforce effects are good and all but if you can manouver at FTL speeds surely they are irrelevant?

Yes, but as per above, you are not actually traveling FTL during supercruise etc.

Interesting stuff though.

kafolarbear · May 23, 2015

I got this last night. I was waiting to 1v1 someone in my vulture so I decided to explore the station. (It was one of those geometric ones, can't remember what the shape is called). So I go into a crevasse right between on of those large buildings and a metal plate. I end up being stuck underneath with my screen turning red with the g force warning and me losing sheilds (I was glitches so I was bumping all over the place) at some point my screen was almost completely red and I had to log out because I only have 1 mil creds on me atm and was afraid my pilot would pass out. I logged back in and was 8km away from the star port. But this has only happened to me 2-3 times before while dogfighting and never to this extent. And since there is very little gravitational influence in space so very little g force.Admittedly the first time that happened was turning in combat near a star.

Sorry for for bad grammar and such. This was all written on a phone.

-CMDR Kbear

Bebe · May 23, 2015

Ever lost total control of your ship for a few seconds ?

Judz · May 23, 2015

I've done this a few times in combat, FA off, boost, pull back or push forward and put the throttle into the middle for best manoeuvrability (all at the same time obviously). The first time is a dubya tee eff moment, after that its oh!!. Its still not as hairy as having ghosting on your HOTAS in a combat zone. Hearing a Shield Cell start to fizz, then Boosting, then hearing Landing Gear Deployed and then Silent Running when your in the middle of a furball with an elite Anaconda, multiple Pythons and then a few Eagles tearing you a new 1...now that's a trip.