Simple, if a ship could jump via witchspace to anywhere, you would never see another player, whether real or NPC, nobody would move in SC. And it could be a lot worse, instead of having the system's Nav Beacon act only as a receiver for high wake jumps, image how bad it would be if we could only jump out of a system when within the small radius of a Nav Beacon!
Things in the game you've always wondered about
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Simple, if a ship could jump via witchspace to anywhere, you would never see another player, whether real or NPC, nobody would move in SC. And it could be a lot worse, instead of having the system's Nav Beacon act only as a receiver for high wake jumps, image how bad it would be if we could only jump out of a system when within the small radius of a Nav Beacon!
Because the FSD doesn't work when there is too much mass nearby.
Doesn't happen on my end.
Fireworks.
Probably.
Don't try to reason with the Engineers.
Ask the creators of the wiki or edit it yourself.
Until you are dead.
Simple: Someone wants to see them destroyed.
1. You slow down in Supercruise rather than speed up because your ship is not flying through normal Newtonian space. High-gravity objects bend spacetime. The Frameshift Drive also operates by bending spacetime. Operating a frameshift drive too close to an object with mass (like a planet, space station or even another large spaceship) creates extra work for the drive, because it has to first unbend space before it can re-bend space again to send you off in the direction where you want to go.
2. A space station is actually rather massive. Especially the ones made of nearly-pure palladium; we had a CG to build one over a year ago, requiring various metals to be delivered, but since palladium was the most valuable metal the CG offered, everybody in the CG brought palladium. About 27 million tonnes of it. To me, the bigger question is: how can a tiny handful of spaceship debris in a USS have enough gravity to cause a slowdown?
8. I'm pretty sure it's the grooms forgetting their vows, not the brides.
9. This is purely a gameplay decision. Otherwise, staying for several hours in a CZ, RES or Nav Beacon would fill up your radar screens with piles of debris.
10. Again, gameplay. "WWII dogfighting" is only possible if ships are moving at more or less identical speed. "Realistic" space combat in Newtonian space, with ships that are capable of 30G acceleration, would involve jousting at each other from thousands of KM away, passing each other in the blink of an eye while travelling at a modest fraction of lightspeed, and relying on automated weapons fire because human reflexes would be nowhere near good enough to make a hit. There are space games out there that simulate that kind of realism. Most of them are not renowned for their exciting combat sequences.
14. Weight (or more technically correct, mass) is the most important factor in considering spaceship behaviour. Commodities are therefore all shipped in standard-sized containers that always weigh exactly 1 metric tonne when full. It allows the automated cargo loading/unloading machinery to always know exactly where to put a piece of cargo in order to balance the load, without having to figure out how much each container weighs or how big each container is. Yes, shipping 1 tonne of gold in a shipping container which is mostly empty space is not the most efficient use of space. Efficiency is less important than predictability in the ED universe.
23. You will notice that the stations that allow you to drop in within 5000km rather than the usual 1000km are all quite remote from massive objects, like planets or moons. They may be in deep orbit of a planet, or they may be orbiting the star all by themselves (or orbiting an as-yet-invisible comet). Which relates back to the answer for question 1: space is less "bent" way out where these stations are, so there is less interference - the space station itself is the only significant gravitational object in the area, so the FSD can more easily lock onto it.
25. Strict galaxy-wide anti-AI laws mean that fully autonomous miniature space vehicles, like limpets, cannot be programmed with meaningful levels of sentience. For example, they are not allowed to be smart enough to pass a Turing test. They certainly aren't allowed to be smart enough to be programmed with a sense of self-preservation, since that implies a high level of recognition of a sense of "Self". In that sense, those limpets are relying on you to be their sense of self-preservation, by not firing them towards danger in the first place.
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I wonder where the cargo I rob mysteriously disappears to ...
Yes, it's ALSO used as a 'slow the heck down you're going to overshoot' warning.
Try flying past a planet in fast Supercrusie sometime and you will note that when it says 'Slow down' your ship actually slows down due to the gravity, then accelerates as it clears it. You can use gravity assisted braking to reduce time spent in SC.
Because [and this is such a bad lore choice that it hurts] they are not members of the Pilots Federation. Only PCs are, which is why we have hollow triangles and CMDR. We are special snowflakes and NPCs are scrums.
I pretend that lore does not exist.
Didn’t read all the replies, but why piracy exists? At all?
Quadrillion tonnes of unclaimed, free precious metals and rocks floating everywhere in space, just begging to be picked up easily and quickly.
But no. Mr Pirate needs 2T of food cartridges right now. Ok mate, enjoy cold hard vacuum.
Quadrillion tonnes of unclaimed, free precious metals and rocks floating everywhere in space, just begging to be picked up easily and quickly.
But no. Mr Pirate needs 2T of food cartridges right now. Ok mate, enjoy cold hard vacuum.
What are the blue rings in supercruise for around planets?
Aren't they the boundary between supercruise and orbital cruise on landable planets?
I mean those rings that appear several times that get smaller and smaller as you get closer.
Oh I have a few
- In SC, seeing the warning SLOW DOWN pop up every time you get near a planet etc. Hey FD, if we had that astronomical body selected, we would slow down, if we were on a collision course with it, we would slow down or deviate around it. But why in heaven's name do you have to tell us to SLOW DOWN every damn time we go within scope range of something in space!
I think I've worked that one out. SLOW DOWN is not telling you to slow down. It is saying that you are in a volume of space where you are slowing down due to the nearby mass. If you look at your speed it will be reducing when the message shows and starts to increase when it goes away.
The one that baffles me is that I can scoop fuel from the corona of a star with or without shields yet someone's lasers can damage the hull.
I don't know their intended purpose, but I use them for sling shot, if a body is almost in line with my destination, I go at max speed keeping just outside the rings, this quickly takes off a few light seconds travel.
Railguns. This an essentially useless weapons system unless either a) the target stands still, or b) it is backed by some seriously sophisticated target acquisition, tracking and prediction software/hardware. And that's today. So why, in 330x, are they fixed-mount only?
Erm, what? It's hyperelocity, so easier to target with than - say - cannon, or even plasma.
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When approaching a station, why do I get labelled for speeding when I go over 100 m/s but the docking computer can go well over 100 and not be warned.
Why don't I have a pop up window for a rear view camera and downward facing camera (in the HUD) like my wife's 2015 SUV. (not talking about the vanity camera)
Does everyone but me speed when leaving a station? I exit the slot and stay below 100 m/s, but all the other ships I exit with zoom off leaving me in a cloud of space dust and exhaust fumes.
Follow on: are there consequences to speeding ?
What is our cockpit glass made from ? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_oxynitride) ?? (sorry, a bit off topic)
When I hire crew, where do they stay or sit ?. I have nice chairs for them on the bridge but my seats are empty.
Why don't I have a pop up window for a rear view camera and downward facing camera (in the HUD) like my wife's 2015 SUV. (not talking about the vanity camera)
Does everyone but me speed when leaving a station? I exit the slot and stay below 100 m/s, but all the other ships I exit with zoom off leaving me in a cloud of space dust and exhaust fumes.
Follow on: are there consequences to speeding ?
What is our cockpit glass made from ? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_oxynitride) ?? (sorry, a bit off topic)
When I hire crew, where do they stay or sit ?. I have nice chairs for them on the bridge but my seats are empty.
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Why do I telepresence to my SLF but not to the SRV? If I'm actually in the SRV, why is getting destroyed in it no different than getting destroyed in the SLF?
they are just there to make it easier to spot planets at high supercruise speeds.
thats what a dev wrote on the forums somewhere this year