The Chieftan is annoying

Redomus

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Stealthie said:
Oh yeah, it's not something I lose sleep over.

It's just a bit of a shame when these things could have been even better if somebody with a bit of technical expertise had a chance to provide some input early on in the design process.

Besides, I don't have time to get upset about the landing gear on the Chieftain.
I'm still too busy raging about those bloody stupid, ugly, half-baked hardpoints built into the nacelles on the iCourier.
Why, oh why, couldn't those hardpoints have been fitted into the underneath of the wings, somewhere, instead?

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To play devils advocate and unleash my inner engineer - probably because one of the ship designers would say because you wanted an extra 10T of cable for all the lighting functions to make the ship look pretty, so theres no room sorry its here or back to the drawing board for the ship. Sales vs engineering working as intended.
 

The Replicated Man

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Bounder, Thanks for that "OMG" particle. I did research and it sounds really cool and nerdy!
 

popuptoaster

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Ydiss

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I might be wrong but I'm sure that the leg of the landing gear doesn't just virtically slide up into the module. It appeared to rotate from a horizontal angle as it extended, meaning it would fit quite snuggly in the lower half of the engine housing, with the "foot" flush underneath, leaving a lot of space for the engines themselves (for which the volume of space required to house is entirely unknown to us).

Not only do I think that we're not being asked to suspend disbelief too much for this, there's a history in aviation of landing gear being housed in the same area as the engines.
 
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Chris Simon

Chris Simon
Ydiss said:
I might be wrong but I'm sure that the leg of the landing gear doesn't just virtically slide up into the module. It appeared to rotate from a horizontal angle as it extended, meaning it would fit quite snuggly in the lower half of the engine housing, with the "foot" flush underneath, leaving a lot of space for the engines themselves (for which the volume of space required to house is entirely unknown to us).

Not only do I think that we're not being asked to suspend disbelief too much for this, there's a history in aviation of landing gear being houses in the same area as the engines.
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You are right, of course. There is a telescopic strut that rotates down. And on top of that, the landing "foot" itself isn't even hidden in the nacelle. It's underneath it even in the up position.
 

operant

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777Driver said:
Oh please stop this nonsense, a simulation can be a recreation of a hypothetical situation. It does not need to be based on reality or current technology. ED, is a space simulator, using the word simulator doesn't solely apply to desktop simulators like DCS or Orbiter, those simulators are replicating training platforms.

The terms simulator and game are not mutually exclusive.
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Calm down dear.
My beef is only with the notion it is a simulation - of real space/space travel. (See my post.).
It is a game. A video game. Nothing more and nothing less.

EDIT:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/simulation

I guess I has (3) in mind.
 
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h347h

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operant said:
Calm down dear.
My beef is only with the notion it is a simulation - of real space/space travel. (See my post.).
It is a game. A video game. Nothing more and nothing less.
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Calm down? He just explained that simulation can be more than what people are acting like in this thread.
 

Tiny_Rick

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And there I was, assuming that the first Chieftain whinepost would be by some white knight with 1/563th Cherokee heritage screeching about how the name is offensive.

You consistently surprise me, community!
 
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operant

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h347h said:
Calm down? He just explained that simulation can be more than what people are acting like in this thread.
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OK. I will bite.
I reacted to the 'stop this nonsense' comment.
My comment was that ED is not a simulation of our universe or space travel - or, in my view, possible space travel.
I am afraid I do not understand your last sentence.
 

IndigoWyrd

IndigoWyrd
Guess you overlooked the center of the landing strut being all hollow and stuff to allow for thruster bits inside the engine pod.
 

IndigoWyrd

IndigoWyrd
Tiny_Rick said:
And there I was, assuming that the first Chieftain whinepost would be by some white knight with 1/563th Cherokee heritage screeching about how the name is offensive.

You consistently surprise me, community!
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Except that Cherokee's aren't the only tribal peoples who were led by chiefs or cheiftains. Nor is this sort of societial organization unique to the native peoples of the Americas. This can be traced back to the very origins of social structure so nobody gets an exclusive right to complain here.
 

Ian Skippy

Ian Skippy
Dbrn47 said:
Can't things just be cool or fun sometimes? Does every little detail in a science fiction game need to be believable?
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No, central ideas such as instant respawn upon death are totally fine if they make as little sense as possible. Us nerds only freak out when the most pointless detail isnt 'realistic'. :D
 

popuptoaster

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Those players arguing that they don't care about realism are shooting themselves in the foot, if you don't care then why would it bother you if we got more realistic ships?

It would make the rest of us happy and you lot don't care one way or the other so you don't lose out on anything just because we get what we want.
 

Henri

Henri
popuptoaster said:
Those players arguing that they don't care about realism are shooting themselves in the foot, if you don't care then why would it bother you if we got more realistic ships?

It would make the rest of us happy and you lot don't care one way or the other so you don't lose out on anything just because we get what we want.
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Everything is up to scale and designed with realism in mind.
You would not want to open that door in the back of the cockpit when we get spacelegs and walk into an srv bay now would you???/
 
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