So planetary landings all well and good, how the hell are we going to do planetary takeoffs?
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Hey, found a Youtube video of that landing sequence of that old game.... In elite style it might feel cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxhxwHD28ys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxhxwHD28ys
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Yes that was already established on page 2, has moved on since then.
Sure, if you play in arcade mode it is. It has 2 more modes though, realistic and simulation.
Warthunder, lol. Try a proper flight sim like dcs and then your realise that simulation in warthunder is anything but.
In Frontier: Elite 2, gravity on some planets was stronger than the thrust power of certain ships, thus leaving you crashing towards the surface and unable to take off. Only solution was returning to a previous save.
I wonder how FD will handle these aspects. I suppose reality will take a back seat to enjoyable gameplay, as it should.
I wonder how FD will handle these aspects. I suppose reality will take a back seat to enjoyable gameplay, as it should.
In Frontier: Elite 2, gravity on some planets was stronger than the thrust power of certain ships, thus leaving you crashing towards the surface and unable to take off. Only solution was returning to a previous save.
I wonder how FD will handle these aspects. I suppose reality will take a back seat to enjoyable gameplay, as it should.
That would simply mean your maximum thrust was less than your take-off weight. Shouldn't happen really!
My bet on transition at the moment would be that they lower the top speed of supercruise gradually until you're 10km above the surface. Taking off would be thrust up to that altitude then engage supercruise if you want to.
Gas giants could have an air density ceiling before emergency drop out. I'd suppose they could work like rings with gas extraction sites to drop out at.
Since they'll now be cloud tech in the game fuel scooping could also push closer to star surfaces. So long as scooping takes the same time itd be awesome.
I'd love it if they could use the predictability of reentry to load you into a planet instance while it's happening. The supercruise transition matchmaking time is my least favorite part of the game atm
Gas giants could have an air density ceiling before emergency drop out. I'd suppose they could work like rings with gas extraction sites to drop out at.
Since they'll now be cloud tech in the game fuel scooping could also push closer to star surfaces. So long as scooping takes the same time itd be awesome.
I'd love it if they could use the predictability of reentry to load you into a planet instance while it's happening. The supercruise transition matchmaking time is my least favorite part of the game atm
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my DREAM would be (a third flight mode in atmospherics) .... SCRAMJET
(ie. not supercruise but faster than norm space flight, as we have now, for sightseeing round planets)
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Well depends on the Planet.
The Heaviest Metal Rich world in the UC record is nearly 1400 earth masses.
Ignoring how we landed in one piece in the first place, & its surface temperature and pressure, I don't see any ship having the TWR to take off from it.
http://universalcartographics.org/records/heaviest-high-metal-content-planet/
An extreme example but I'd say there will be a lot of places one ought not land, as the ship might not be able to lift itself to land safely let along get back into orbit, even with no atmosphere
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Plz plz no. I want landings like demonstrated in No Man's Sky. If there is a cutscene or loading screen like when hyperspacing or going to supercruise Im done.
Someone mentioned a railgun launcher, which would be awesome until someone found your ship and had to spray the back of the cockpit to clean you off it.
Wow, yes, that is an extreme case. You prob couldn't take off from this - but as you say, you prob died on landing anyway!
Escape velocity only applies when you have one initial push and no further thrust; continual thrust would allow us to escape easily, so long as the gravity is not too strong
A rough calc for this planet, given its huge mass, but larger radius would put its grav field strength at about 230 x Earth's. So take off weight x 230. And a 75kg astronaut would have a weight corresponding to a mass on Earth of over 17 tonnes.
Felix < 40km. Edge of space, officially 100km. A long way short.
Yes he jumped out at 39km ... but what if he didn't? I don't think there was an invisible barrier that only let's you pass* if you're going above a certain speed.
* = You. Shall. Not. Pass!