If we were to get atmospheric landings.....

[IamMe]

Normal speed at start but with higher altitude speed should increase a bit (not too much).
NO FSD until you leave the atmosphere, and dramatic/challenging re-entry.

 

[wrmiller]

Right now, when taking off from a planet or moon, you have to exceed 2km before the mass-lock light goes out. Once that’s gone the FSD can be used to go into SC or jump to another star (if you’re in line-of-sight with it).

Atmosphere would change that (I would think). I know this’ll be guesswork, but what do people think of taking off from any king of atmospheric world: should we still be able to activate the FSD at 2km+ altitude, or should the disruption of the air require us to actually get out of the atmosphere before the mass-lock light goes out?

Remember: this is a “what if” topic. Thoughts?

I did not read the thread (tl;dr), but my first thought after reading the OP was: There are so many goofy rules already (in the name of gameplay...) that FD could just keep things the way they are now, i.e., jumps out of a atmosphere would be no different than jumping away from a dead rock. Who cares? It's not like this game models anything remotely real-world anyway.

Just my thoughts on the matter. I'll see myself out...

 

[CMDR John Luke Paperbone]

good news!

you can just continue to fly with normal thrust until your 200km out, or even 1ls out whatever takes your fancy., you can even fly from one planet to the next without even touching your FSD!

what a time to be alive, the rest of us will probably stick the FSD on at 2km above though...

Why are you so hostile ? I don’t think I’ve insulted you in any way.

 

[Patrick_68000]

I wonder if Frontier is doing the atmospheric planets, if it must to engage in too technical conditions.

Perhaps it would be better to simplify the navigation without taking into account all the parameters of an atmosphere, a climate etc ...

 

[nmcobalt]

Yes its just a game. They could just make up some new fangled devise for atmospheric landings.

There was such device, long time ago, in Elite Frontier 2, called Atmospheric Shielding...

 

[VR SenseiMatty]

Mass lock is a function of mass and distance. How would adding an atmosphere change that? You get far enough away from a object of significant mass, you can open an Einstein-Rosen bridge to another star system.

Atmosphere (gas) has a mass. Even if the density is negligible compared to a ship, your ship is still surrounded by matter.