Gravity, slingshot and engine autopilot off in supercruise.

StumbledOnThis

StumbledOnThis
Heya all,

Shouldn't the gravity of a planet pull you, rather than repel you? The moment you are affected by a stars gravity, shouldn't you travel faster towards it? In game I see the opposite. No matter which angle your approach has, the effect stays the same. Some would say that the engines autopilot is compensating on the effect, trying to save you from a rather fast accident you could have with the star. And if you continue to do it wrongly, it pulls you out of supercruise all together. Why rely only on your engines when there are larger power plants out there?

It would be nice to use the gravity for acceleration , through a slingshot maneuver around the objects outer ring. This will be fun to do, and also reduce with a proper way the time needed to travel to distant stars in the same system.

I would like also to have a gravity indicator, which could help me avoid or pursue a celestial body. Small mass stars should have a lesser effect, although I think this is already implemented. And what's this automatic deceleration? There should be none. You should be able to turn off your engines and retain the same speed.
 
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Kitiara

Kitiara
Within the game lore, you're not actually travelling normally when in supercruise. Instead you're rapidly shifting your inertial reference frame with respect to the star system. In essence, you're doing a series of very very short jumps between points in space.

When you get deeper into a gravity well, the distance you can cover in each jump declines, making your apparent speed slower when deeper in gravity wells.
 

simon terlecki

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In many cases, you are already traveling faster than gravity would be able to pull you, but what is actually happening, is that the gravity well from the objects in space are inhibiting your engine's capability to bend the space around the ship to make you move at speeds higher than normal.

Since your ship can't operate as efficiently, it effectively decelerates in relation to the world outside of your "space time bubble".
 

bootsam

bootsam
It feels like it squashes space time to me. The faster you go the more its compressed. As you slow down it feels like it expands on you. I like it. Its interesting. Its a bit like a zoom function.
 

StumbledOnThis

StumbledOnThis
simon terlecki said:
In many cases, you are already traveling faster than gravity would be able to pull you, but what is actually happening, is that the gravity well from the objects in space are inhibiting your engine's capability to bend the space around the ship to make you move at speeds higher than normal.

Since your ship can't operate as efficiently, it effectively decelerates in relation to the world outside of your "space time bubble".
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Thank you all for your responses. Are there any resources who explain the science behind the aspects of the game?
 

nbhamilt

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Special relativity is a place to start (and google)

The one subject in physics at Uni I absolutely loved and actually understood!
 

StumbledOnThis

StumbledOnThis
I meant from Frontier. Do they explain exactly what science they used for the aspects of the game? Like type of engine ships use for supercruise or normal drive, scanner and weapons technology etc.
 

Axelmathew

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Athanatos said:
Thank you all for your responses. Are there any resources who explain the science behind the aspects of the game?
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I guess studying some Einstein's handywork would explain it to you better but....

...I can try to explain it to you with my awesome paint skillz!

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As you can see in this picture, made by me, the space-time bends/warps easily becouse there is no disruptions.

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You get closer to big mass, like a planet or a star, its mass bends/warps the space and time.
Now when the space is already warped/bended, you need much more energy to bend it in same ratio, as in "flat" space.
You must have seen, "Frameshift drive disturbed by factor of 12: disruptive mass." or something like this, cant remember, too drunk.
Same reason it takes longer to charge then because some fat anaconda is tailing you in the space you are supposed to bend/warp to ditch that MF.
I'm not 100% sure about this, but something like 87.6%. This is what i deduced from what i know.

Thank you everyone for admiring my art. You may use it as you see fit. :D
 
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