look! a space station that orbit about 20 km above the planet surface. What a "sense of scale"!The forth is when you see tiny details far away and know how massive they are. Below the Hurston dynamics building seen from space and from the city
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You know, I’ve often wondered how much of that phenomenon is bad IPD settings, and the fact that our avatars are of a set height. My in-game avatar is almost half a foot taller than I am (14cm, to be precise), and things look too big to me, even though when I measure them, they’re their reported size.
Reminds me of after I got LASIK. I spent two months misjudging distances, thanks to severe astigmatism I used to have.
And to the PvPer as well. No need to try and identify who is a player. Its right there no your screen.
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The radar distinguishes normal civilian or military crafts (full icons) from fellow members of the Pilots Federation (hollow icons), not NPCs from humans. It just so happens that the only fellow members of the Pilots Federation are the human players.
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Orbit - or hover? afaik the planets and stations don't move in SC, never played it long enough to be able to tell on my own.
What happens when you take 3 elevators?
You feel the stale of the station.
(I think there's a reason why X4 has those huge stations with platform to walk on with elevators and belts to carry you around and those huge spaceships around which you can walk to reach the entran-oh let me fly the damn thing, Shift+D, teleport to cockpit/bridge, problem solved.)
Edit - just wanted to add that "what are you doing" is not mine but I totally approve of this mild swearing filter.
They do orbit as the planets rotate too. Planets themselves do not orbit the star. Also on scale kinda, as planets are about 1/6th scale so 20km orbit is relatively not too suprising. It's synchronous though, which should never be the case for a low orbit.
That's a good bit of handwavium, but I assume to make the lore work, its a sensor based thing and likely an implant my character has. If so, I'd love a way of removing it
That's a good bit of handwavium, but I assume to make the lore work, its a sensor based thing and likely an implant my character has. If so, I'd love a way of removing it
I think its built into the ships sensors. Not in the player's helmet or anything like that.
Well synchronous orbit in even 1/6 scale planets is way more far out than 20 km....
Well I have to say PVP in ED is most immersion breaking factor....
It was built in the ship sensors previously, but with the coming of Odyssey they had to update the tech, now Cmdrs are recognized via a RFID in the left bottom cheek.
Ooooh, hadn't thought of that.
The item I was showing in the screenshot was the Hurston building on the planet, not the space station...
The same building shown in the second screenshot.
It's ridiculously big. What purpose would such a chunky building have?
I'd say based on what we know of FDev and their design ethos that Sovapid's comments aren't exactly 'crystal-balling' but more reasonable assumptions based on the information FDev have given us thus far regarding Odyssey and their prior work on Elite as a whole.
Unless you're suggesting that you think there's a chance FDev will announce that an expansion for Elite Dangerous is an Open Only thing, which... well based on how entitled and vitriolic our little corner of the internet can be seems highly unlikely.
So CIG can say "look at the scale!"
Yeah, realistically, it would be unlikely anyone would build anything like that... although humans being humans, and some humans' love of doing crazy things, its not beyond the realm of possibility.
Imagine the janitors you'd need for that.So CIG can say "look at the scale!"
Yeah, realistically, it would be unlikely anyone would build anything like that... although humans being humans, and some humans' love of doing crazy things, its not beyond the realm of possibility.