Yup, although that does have interesting implications for ships that have a crew of more than 8....
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Yup, although that does have interesting implications for ships that have a crew of more than 8....
Enemy within emergent gameplay confirmed.
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To be fair, realism in computer games is always discussed, regardless for what title. Even tho the fall-back excuse is "its a game" there are games out there which get very close to realistic conditions or at least hack it in such ways that its hardly noticable. Mostly "some aspects" of any given feature is realistic while the rest is bent due to the rule of cool or in order to allow gameplay in the first place. FTL travel and artificial gravity itself tho is purely theoretical and based on opinion. Current knowledge doesnt allow for either or makes any of them impossible to achieve but 200 years back people claimed that its impossible to fly or go faster then 50kmh so the next break-through might be just around the corner ^^
Copying Star Citizen's scanning/mining https://reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/8thioe/elites_new_scanning_concept_looks_strangely/
Maybe people wouldn't argue that much if CIG focused less on saying physicallized fidelicious physicallities...
Thats absolutely nonsensical. You can claim anything 'is purely theoretical and based on opinion' with that argument. FTL and artificial gravity is not realistic, period.
Jacques d'Orleans
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Artificial gravity is pretty realistic, albeit it surely won't look like in Star Trek, but is pretty good depicted in the ED moving station rings.
Interesting part starts at the 26 minute mark.
[video=youtube;mWj1ZEQTI8I]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWj1ZEQTI8I[/video]
What makes me SMH is when a game's universe offers artificial gravity, FTL travel, holographic displays and nipple jets, but hasn't automated the process of turning off a mining laser when some variable gets too high.
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That is what is called the entertainment part.
Nobody seemed upset with the movie Matrix as well, even though:
1. the machines could have done with geothermal energy just as humans did
2. even if machines needed humans for energy generation, why bother with simulation when you can keep them in coma?
If SC was ever to become a finished game that was worth playing, it would probably take someone 5 minutes to create a bot that automatically maximised the mining yield (free mod tools for everyone, remember!) Only the most perverse players would continue do it manually after about the first 5 rocks, if a more convenient method was available.
Jacques d'Orleans
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In every game like ED or EvE mining becomes a real pain in the a*s when you do it long enough. I don't think that it will be any different in SD.
But the biggest difference is, that I can mine with ingame currency bought ships (ED) or with a starter ship like the Venture (EvE) which you get for free after doing the tutorial missions, instead of dishing out 120/140 $ for a mining ship which is basically nothing else than a starter ship. [woah]
Sure, but that isnt what (as far as I know) is generally meant with artificial gravity: that is just gravity as we know it is, but 'artificially induced'. The SC version is 'we have a gravity generator module, now there is gravity in the ship. Destroy the generator and you'll have zero gravity.' I'm all for 'hard sci-fi' induced gravity, magboots etc.
Gravity is a theory. You cannot measure it. We only assume it exists.
Gravity is a theory that not only depicts the reality, but predicted things in reality we have experienced after the theory was crafted.
It is as real as it can get.
Existence is a theory. I cannot measure it. I only assume you exist.
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