Pretty much all there is to it ^ Hopefully FD will add some drama to it for gameplay reasons, although completely unnecessary considering the capabilities of our ships.
What would atmospheric entry look like?
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Pretty much all there is to it ^ Hopefully FD will add some drama to it for gameplay reasons, although completely unnecessary considering the capabilities of our ships.
Where's the damn beacon?
And when we're in glide what is slowing the ship downdown, we're in hard vacuum or barely trace atmospheres at the moment in an unpowered descent?
Which is why I believe the "glide" was invented with atmospheric landings in mind, but has been adopted for airless planets also. It was a long long time ago that we first had planetary landings, and for whatever reasons, it seems that atmospheric landings have been considerably delayed. The "glide" suggests that to me, at least.
I imagine it will be much like the mechanic we already have. The addition of a correct glide path would be great with damage when straying off it.
Interesting take on glide mechanics. Hadn’t considered it... but yes, it makes sense.
Since ships in Elite have the thrust that they could enter an atmosphere at a low speed where shock heating is not an issue.
They can hover so don't need forward momentum to generate lift so have no minimum forward speed.
Ignoring what ever protects them from Stars when fuel scooping.
I would imagine for expediency for the player, a similar "Glide" will faciliate a quick reentry, and the Planetary Approach Suite will have an Upgrade for Atomsphereic entry.
I'd imagine the first Atmospheric flight won't be landing on planets but flying in the upper atmospheres of gas giants
They can hover so don't need forward momentum to generate lift so have no minimum forward speed.
Ignoring what ever protects them from Stars when fuel scooping.
I would imagine for expediency for the player, a similar "Glide" will faciliate a quick reentry, and the Planetary Approach Suite will have an Upgrade for Atomsphereic entry.
I'd imagine the first Atmospheric flight won't be landing on planets but flying in the upper atmospheres of gas giants
Not really, glide was put it as technical requirement - game terrain engine needs throttling/approach vector & speed limiting to avoid visible mesh & texture popping.
Ship must me kept with certain trajectory and speed so terrain engine able to catchup with terrain generation (which happens continuously as you fly).
E.g. it wouldn't be able to keep up with certain approaches (e.g. vertical landing from orbit). Hence the enforced "glide trajectory".
Stargate ships kick asp over anything we have in elite dangerous. Lol. 1 single puddle jumper could take down a capital ship.
From my understanding, the glide is the ship gliding on the FSD wake, as soon as the wake goes, you are not bending space so it looks like you are slowing down. You are actually not though it's just that you are not warping space and time around you anymore. I would like to see the glide mecahanic be used for coming out of supercruise at rings and space stations/outposts too.
To be fair, ships have very good cooling systems, to be able to dissipate many MW of heat
Just turn your broken canopy away from the star, you'd be fine (with only minor radiation sickness/sunburn which probably easy cure by future medicine)
Yep, which is why a 32T life support system that only needs to supply oxygen to 1 (or if you care about your NPC, 2 people) runs out of oxygen in 7m30s, perhaps.
I think the reasoning behind the huge life support systems is that it supplies life support for the entire ship, even though there's only one person on the ship.
But how you get oxygen from iron and nickel is beyond me.
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That vid you found is sooo cool.
I think a glide like the Space Shuttle would be fine.
Maybe you would need to purchase Atmospheric Shield Upgrades, or Atmospheric Hull Mods, or both?
You get oxygen from iron oxide which you can get from iron ore.
The life support module is actually a cage for a goblin with alchemic powers. You give him shinies and he makes them into air.
That sill doesn't explain where the oxygen comes from. Note, in your link, two oxygen atoms are bound to an iridium atom.
There is no IrO[SUB]2[/SUB] in Elite's formula, further, compounds don't exist in the Elite: Dangerous universe.