PLEASE stop the way space stations ROTATE

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I can't stand it anymore. It makes me cringe everytime I drop out of SC and see a station.
THIS DOESN'T WORK!!!

You can't have space stations rotate like they do AND have the entrance point in the general direction of the planet they're orbiting.

It will not work! The entrance will be, after half an orbit, opposite of the planet.
Which would, by the way, not change a thing as when you drop out of SC it's always a gamble where the entrance is - it definitely is NEVER where you expect it.



Solution is simple:
Have them rotate perpendicular to their orbit plane.
And please, for heaven's sake, add a second entrance. Lots of problems solved (except for occasional drafts of space winds with two doors open..).

 

[h347h]

I can't stand it anymore. It makes me cringe everytime I drop out of SC and see a station.
THIS DOESN'T WORK!!!

You can't have space stations rotate like they do AND have the entrance point in the general direction of the planet they're orbiting.

It will not work! The entrance will be, after half an orbit, opposite of the planet.
Which would, by the way, not change a thing as when you drop out of SC it's always a gamble where the entrance is - it definitely is NEVER where you expect it.



Solution is simple:
Have them rotate perpendicular to their orbit plane.
And please, for heaven's sake, add a second entrance. Lots of problems solved (except for occasional drafts of space winds with two doors open..).

Is this a joke thread or are you serious?

 

[CrustyGoth]

Perhaps when they set the rotation they also gave the station a carefully calculated amount of "top spin" to make sure it did always face the planet...

 

[X-Terminator]

Target the station and it has arrows on the icon. It does not bother me nor most that it may be slightly off axis to the planet. Some do not have a planet at all. Just learn to fly
I fancy having optional pads around other parts of Coriolis stations but not the square ones.

 

[bend_r]

THIS DOESN'T WORK!!!

You can't have space stations rotate like they do AND have the entrance point in the general direction of the planet they're orbiting.

Wow, never though about it. But from a physics standpoint you are correct

They do it like this because the original did it like that

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Perhaps when they set the rotation they also gave the station a carefully calculated amount of "top spin" to make sure it did always face the planet...

That doesn't work when it's already spinning on some other axis.

 

[Windscreen Smudge]

Of all of the personal problems about vidjya games that could have been aired out on the forums....

 

[Alex Brentnall]

I did think this before having played Kerbal Space Program quite a lot, but the red faces on your post don't really help...

I'd be in favour of space stations with varied entry points and orbital mechanics provided the hologram when targeting from supercruise also rotated so you could align your drop out.

Edit: Although I don't think this is the most pressing issue in the game at the moment.

 

[MissMeYet]

I can't stand it anymore. It makes me cringe everytime I drop out of SC and see a station.
THIS DOESN'T WORK!!!

You can't have space stations rotate like they do AND have the entrance point in the general direction of the planet they're orbiting.

The Moon does it. Why can't a space station?

 

[Pendra]

IIRC comm sats manage to point toward the same spot as they orbit around Earth.

 

[CrustyGoth]

That doesn't work when it's already spinning on some other axis.

Ok, then they clearly have a number of small thrusters that fire occasionally to keep the entrance aligned with the planet.

I'd like to think that in the future these could be entirely powered by the energy farmed from people ranting on the internet over entirely pointless stuff...

 

[shoom]

Geo stationary?

 

[Monk]

Orbit and rotation can be set independent of one another. It is trivial to ensure that you have an rotation that always faces the same way relative to the surface below. You know, like all the sattelites we have where they msut remain pointed at Earth (telco, weather, military, GPS...etc)...

Also, I wouldn't want the entrance pointed at open space...who knows what might come flying in...at least with it generally pointed at the planet your are physically and gravitationally protecting the opening.

 

[Muffindrake]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosynchronous_satellite

 

[Stigbob]

Given the surface area of a station they've got plenty of room for solar panels and a few ion thrusters.

 

[Bacalao]

The Moon does it. Why can't a space station?

The moon isn't spinning along the axis that intersects it and the earth as well, so there isn't a 1:1 comparison here. (I am a chemist, not a physicist so forgive any misunderstanding of the laws of motion, it has been a few years.)

 

[bend_r]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosynchronous_satellite

Those rotate around another axis, taking 24h for one 360 degree turn.

Try spinning those up for gravity the way the ED space stations are, and have the axis always point towards earth.

Not going to happen.

 

[Samosa]

Can we make this thread similar to this one, please?

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=163810

 

[Apos]

Are you implying that if an object is rotating around its X axis I can't apply force to it and create a rotation around the Z axis as well?

Because that's very much possible.

 

[bend_r]

The Moon does it. Why can't a space station?

Because the moon isn't also spinning along _another_ axis to create artificial gravity.

 

[babelfisch]

Could someone please explain it for idiots? Because I don't get the problem.