OK i admit defeat i have now lost my canopy for the 19th time and for the 9th time it was a ventral aft attack that popped it in a cobra mk III...whats the point of having a hull that can laugh off nukes if a hit from underneath can pop the apparently glass canopy,take out your displays and force you to dis-engage i could maybe understand if it was cumulative damage but its happened after 4% damage and most of the time around 20%..Anyone else suffering from this rather annoying problem?
Glass canopys?
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Your glass canopy can be shattered ? O_O
Never happened to me in my viper.
Never happened to me in my viper.
I thought mandel hypernautics fighter pilots were the most tenacious fighter's in the galaxy? 
Even my 10 yr old asked why we don't have emergency force fields on the canopy. He said "Dad..isn't that kind of stupid to fly around in space with a glass canopy?"
Elite community would prefer the game to not be easy
No joke, Scotty gave us the formula for transparent aluminum way back in the 80's...
Personally I really like it, it gives another dimension to think about while in a dogfight. Much like aiming for the FSD on larger ship to take it out faster. It's a concept you have to be careful of yourself and be ready to take advantage of anytime you can. It's not a simple fly around and shoot the hull of a ship and wait for its HP to hit 0, you have to think through some fights.
Sargon
Banned
Heh.. not sure.. ask NASA... besides it isn't the same glass that they use on our microwave ovens.
But yeah.. kids will come up with the smartest commentary, and they're generally right too!- - - - - Additional Content Posted / Auto Merge - - - - -
Haha... "HELLO CoMPUTER?"...."Hello Computer".... LOL loved that movie.
It's called your life support module. Upgrade that, you may live longer after the glass breaks.
Because this is Elite and in the 1980's noone had heard of flat screens or transparent aluminium so canopies were made of glass (or more likely plexiglass), and once lore is established it's hard to change.
Or maybe just coz David Braben likes glass canopies Cobras.
Besides which, if you're going to argue that it's stupid to have glass canopies because it's not realistic, let's also talk about ships magically slowing down when you turn flight assistance off and even when you turn off the thrusters, and asteroid particles and shipping containers that also magically stop despite having NO thrusters, or ship engine heat that magically gets transported away by opening vents to let the "air" in, or space ships that fly like airplanes... and the list goes on. Which particular unrealstic parts would you like to focus on first?
It's a game folks. Glass canopies are there to make it interesting, not coz they're realistic.
Or maybe just coz David Braben likes glass canopies Cobras.
Besides which, if you're going to argue that it's stupid to have glass canopies because it's not realistic, let's also talk about ships magically slowing down when you turn flight assistance off and even when you turn off the thrusters, and asteroid particles and shipping containers that also magically stop despite having NO thrusters, or ship engine heat that magically gets transported away by opening vents to let the "air" in, or space ships that fly like airplanes... and the list goes on. Which particular unrealstic parts would you like to focus on first?
It's a game folks. Glass canopies are there to make it interesting, not coz they're realistic.
Sargon
Banned
Is it glass, for sure?
Just because it's clear, and can be shattered doesn't meant it is.
Perhaps you'd prefer a solid wall of.. something, that you can't see through instead
Just because it's clear, and can be shattered doesn't meant it is.
Perhaps you'd prefer a solid wall of.. something, that you can't see through instead
more likely quartz glass not plexiglass (which is a brand name btw)
quartz glass was used in all the of the NASA space craft
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fused_quartz
I don't know man... the last spaceship I flew IRL... it had a glass canopy also..
Did it look like this?
Sargon
Banned
Did it look like this?
Hey.. so that was you wearing the pink shorts taking pictures of everything?
I like picking glass out of my face when Im on the hutton run, gives me something to do.
Is it glass, for sure?
Just because it's clear, and can be shattered doesn't meant it is.
Perhaps you'd prefer a solid wall of.. something, that you can't see through instead
This. My first thought was polycarbonate or some sort of polymer.
It might not be realistic, considering there are already aircraft being developed without windows, and instead will have screens with camera feeds from outside.
But it sure makes the combat more exciting when you have a chance to lose your atmosphere and have to get back to a station quick-like to avoid suffocating. It's one of the reasons I always get A-class Life Support.
Sargon
Banned
Is that the same technology that uses cellular cameras across the entire fuscelage? The ones being developed for visual cloaking?