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Inconsistencies not explained by lore
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I've already done that and outlined a lot of the mechanics but i think they are "happy" with the short sighted solution they picked.
This. Over and again. This.
Anything else is sheer laziness and sloppy work.
Elite always had this. Up until 2017 when it didn't anymore.
Cheers,
Drew.
I did the math in another thread and came out with a result saying that the number of crew needed for any of the ships in ED is less than or equal to the number of seats in the cockpit:
And 2016 was when the downward trend really started accelerating.
A lot of times you think about how light and mass and velocity would behave for this FTL stuff and you think about things in classical terms. So what I was thinking when it comes to the FSD is that it doesn't operate in any classical sense either newtonian or relativistic. It is a quantum-level device. It basically uses quantum-level interactions to tell the universe that your position in it is different. So it doesn't matter what light is doing anywhere else because this effect happens faster than the newtonian universe's "clock signal" so to speak. Basically the poll rate of the FSD is higher than that of the newtonian universe. But you only witness the phenomenon in the manner which you are capable and at the speed at which the newtonian universe functions. So it appears as though the universe is moving around you.
So you're not moving in any kind of classical sense at all really. What you're really doing is bending spacetime and telling the universe, "I'm here now. Okay now I'm here. Now I'm here". This happens faster than you can perceive, but you perceive its effects in real time, so you can see light and movement normally because that light is there at that point in spacetime when you are there to witness it. Now whether the FSD preserves your own universe inside the ship without interference or not I dunno. Who can say if its needs to? I don't think it makes much difference to light coming at you from outside the ship unless that light would do something as it hit some kind of barrier between the FSD's "bubble" and the universe outside of it. It could be that that is what you see when you start the FSD before it's fully engaged, and then you are no longer capable of perceiving it anymore. Maybe this is also why the FSD has a minimum speed.
So you're not moving in any kind of classical sense at all really. What you're really doing is bending spacetime and telling the universe, "I'm here now. Okay now I'm here. Now I'm here". This happens faster than you can perceive, but you perceive its effects in real time, so you can see light and movement normally because that light is there at that point in spacetime when you are there to witness it. Now whether the FSD preserves your own universe inside the ship without interference or not I dunno. Who can say if its needs to? I don't think it makes much difference to light coming at you from outside the ship unless that light would do something as it hit some kind of barrier between the FSD's "bubble" and the universe outside of it. It could be that that is what you see when you start the FSD before it's fully engaged, and then you are no longer capable of perceiving it anymore. Maybe this is also why the FSD has a minimum speed.
one more....why do you sit in a witness stand?
Some of the things I have personally concluded are:
1. Telepresence is a farce: You actually pilot the SRV - dismissing the ship activates the autopilot or if landed the ship sits idle - when your ship dies, you should have to be picked up by an NPC or a player that will be rewarded the same as the occupied escape pod.
2. Data Courier: Haven't solved the HyperSpace transmission problem - Physically, ships can hyperSpace - (a light second is actually 1 radio energy second - and "most" stations are too far away for practical communications - especially between star systems).
3. Players should only be able to communicate in the same system or during the login page to chat, locations, and instructions as suggested by item 2.
4. Intransit Missions: Missions should be for that specified system faction instead of random - Mission alerts should be issued at the origination point or at the NAV beacon of the receiving system instead of enroute.
5. PowerPlay item deliveries should not be considered cargo and available for distribution from any station controlled by that certain SuperPower. - This would increase powerplay usage.
6. One Limpet Controller to control them all - Have both options, Individual and a Master Controller ( Cost - The total cost of all controllers minus 25%).
1. Telepresence is a farce: You actually pilot the SRV - dismissing the ship activates the autopilot or if landed the ship sits idle - when your ship dies, you should have to be picked up by an NPC or a player that will be rewarded the same as the occupied escape pod.
2. Data Courier: Haven't solved the HyperSpace transmission problem - Physically, ships can hyperSpace - (a light second is actually 1 radio energy second - and "most" stations are too far away for practical communications - especially between star systems).
3. Players should only be able to communicate in the same system or during the login page to chat, locations, and instructions as suggested by item 2.
4. Intransit Missions: Missions should be for that specified system faction instead of random - Mission alerts should be issued at the origination point or at the NAV beacon of the receiving system instead of enroute.
5. PowerPlay item deliveries should not be considered cargo and available for distribution from any station controlled by that certain SuperPower. - This would increase powerplay usage.
6. One Limpet Controller to control them all - Have both options, Individual and a Master Controller ( Cost - The total cost of all controllers minus 25%).
Delivery missions could just have a bit of changing in the text to make it clear it is a package.
Please deliver this Encrypted storage drive containing Election poll Data/Military plan/Confidential reports/Personal effect to our Faction contact in XYZ
Just as they did in the first iteration of delivery missions, as there was ones for delivering Urns of deceased to their families and things like that.
Please deliver this Encrypted storage drive containing Election poll Data/Military plan/Confidential reports/Personal effect to our Faction contact in XYZ
Just as they did in the first iteration of delivery missions, as there was ones for delivering Urns of deceased to their families and things like that.
Yes. So much yes.
Telepresence needs to die in a ditch. No amount of convoluted lore can save it IMHO. As far as I can tell its sole reason for existence is to justify players Multi-crewing with others without having to travel to the same location. Multi-crew must surely be one of the least used features in the game because by all accounts I've seen it's fundementally broken and hardly ever works properly. Does anyone use it? FD should just kill MC and take Telepresence along with it.
OP here, just a quick thank you to all that have responded to this thread - to think we have managed to keep this quite civil, in DD that is a miracle lol
It is funny how actions or event can become Lore or Canon for sometimes the most obscure reasons. I remember watching a Doco on Star Trek (the original series) where it was stated that the transporters were only 'invented' to save on production costs of having to model and film shuttles. With one simple 'invention' of the transporter beam suddenly the actors err crew could get in and out of damn near anywhere and changed the way the world imagines the future.
It is funny how actions or event can become Lore or Canon for sometimes the most obscure reasons. I remember watching a Doco on Star Trek (the original series) where it was stated that the transporters were only 'invented' to save on production costs of having to model and film shuttles. With one simple 'invention' of the transporter beam suddenly the actors err crew could get in and out of damn near anywhere and changed the way the world imagines the future.