Landing Velocity in Logs

hypertexthero

hypertexthero
Good day!

I love flying space ships in Elite and would be delighted if there was a “Landing Rate Log” that showed you how gentle or rough your last landing was in meters per second.

This could be toggled on and off in a text settings file, and ideally the information would be written to a text file like the Player’s Journal.

Cheers!
 

varonica

varonica
hypertexthero said:
Good day!

I love flying space ships in Elite and would be delighted if there was a “Landing Rate Log” that showed you how gentle or rough your last landing was in meters per second.

This could be toggled on and off in a text settings file, and ideally the information would be written to a text file like the Player’s Journal.

Cheers!
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How would they determine a landing from a crash though? Presumably anything you hit while landing gear extended would be registered as an attempted landing and since some ship regularly miss things like the mailslot that could be an issue.
 

hypertexthero

hypertexthero
varonica said:
How would they determine a landing from a crash though? Presumably anything you hit while landing gear extended would be registered as an attempted landing and since some ship regularly miss things like the mailslot that could be an issue.
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If the ship explodes, it is a crash.

For the second point, perhaps only log the velocity when the landing gear is extended.
 

varonica

varonica
hypertexthero said:
If the ship explodes, it is a crash.

For the second point, perhaps only log the velocity when the landing gear is extended.
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A) They don't always explode, and most ships have landing gear extended when docking and still hit the station at times.

B) Often on planets I am flying low enough to the surface with landing gear extended that my ship scrapes the odd outcrop, I rely on my shields for preventing hull damage.

Not saying it's something they shouldn't do, just not sure how....also why?
 

hypertexthero

hypertexthero
varonica said:
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Not saying it's something they shouldn't do, just not sure how....also why?
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I realize there are situations that would make it tricky and would probably involve a lot of work. One way to record it as a landing would be rules checking that... 1. Landing Gear is extended and resting on something, 2. Ship has stopped moving relative to the closest body, 3. Engines are off.

I like flying as if I am a real pilot listening to space ATC and responding, and doing my best to land smoothly. Having the velocity recorded would be a nice addition to a pilot’s logbook, which could be visually represented in a graph showing at a glance how careful or reckless or accident-prone a pilot one is.

Also, for admittedly selfish reasons, I want to use the functionality on my streams so viewers could make a guess of the landing velocity before I touch down, like in Microsoft Flight Simulator.
 

varonica

varonica
hypertexthero said:
I realize there are situations that would make it tricky and would probably involve a lot of work. One way to record it as a landing would be rules checking that... 1. Landing Gear is extended and resting on something, 2. Ship has stopped moving relative to the closest body, 3. Engines are off.
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At that point there's no data to record, you would need to be continuously recording data just in case the ship landed anywhere so that the data is already recorded and you can go back in time in the data record to extract the required data, so it could indeed be done with some work, but I am guessing most players would turn it off, don't need to be continuously writing to the disk for just those occasions where you land.
 

Greasetrap42

Greasetrap42
hypertexthero said:
could be visually represented in a graph showing at a glance how careful or reckless or accident-prone a pilot one is.
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There already is a graph that shows how reckless a pilot is.

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hypertexthero

hypertexthero
varonica said:
At that point there's no data to record, you would need to be continuously recording data just in case the ship landed anywhere so that the data is already recorded and you can go back in time in the data record to extract the required data, so it could indeed be done with some work, but I am guessing most players would turn it off, don't need to be continuously writing to the disk for just those occasions where you land.
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Having the data only record if a flag is set in a configuration text file and the landing gear is down would be enough, I think, but I know nothing about how the game is made and how difficult this would be, so this is just a suggestion :)
 
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