Would an anaconda float?
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New ship with the planetary landing expansion:
Designed specifically for exploring water worlds.
New ship with the planetary landing expansion:
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Designed specifically for exploring water worlds.
Yay for the Yamato!
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I didn't know it was that long, where can we find the dimension of other ship, I'm curious for the smaller ones like viper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4bEQlVvUvI
or
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=146710
Will give you a good idea
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Well, this one doesn't have the Anaconda on it but this image is supposedly to a scale of 1 pixel=1 meter, which is where I got the dimensions for the Federal Dropship from (though since it's a top down view, obviously it gives us no clue about the height).
It's huge, so I'll wrap it to save screen space for people scrolling past.
Honestly, I was expecting all the ships in Elite to be much smaller than they are given their mass and the fact they only have one pilot. For an amusing bit of trivia, an actual 400 ton (ish, it could get up to a little over 600 tons fully loaded) ship is the Bainbridge-class destroyer from a bit before the first World War. It was 76m long and 7m wide, a skinny twig that one, and had a crew of 75 (3 officers and 72 enlisted).
An example of a roughly 1000 ton ship is the Sampson-class destroyer, 96.1m long and 9.3m wide.
Edit: Though note that for the purpose of calculating displacement, I didn't measure the Dropship's wingspan. Which is why my estimate for the width is likely lower than other sources.
Not that it matters much, our little space brick only has to displace about 1-2 feet in order to float. You could float it in a swimming pool, if you found one wide enough.
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A Dropship would probably sink
Nah. The Dropship is so ugly the water would reject it and the Dropship would appear to hover with only its landing struts touching the surface.
I think Pioneer Space Sim has this about right, There are planets with atmospheres so dense that your ship almost floats on it. It takes thrust to move toward the ground at a reasonable speed, it also allows you to approach the planet at much greater speed than normally possible. Unfortunately, this mechanic doesn't really fit with supercruise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4bEQlVvUvI
or
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=146710
Will give you a good idea
Yep, also: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/36lv0t/3d_models_the_ships_to_scale_a_gallery/
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Nah, actually I was thinking of it write a ficitonal logbook entry! I'll post it here when done. Won't be buying any expansions until they fix the basic game
Day3
Distancefrom Sol: 2,378 LY
standard apols for the way it strips spaces out of anything I paste at random!
Iput my head down and made some distance. Since I left I haveovertaken radio transmissions announcing the birth of the Alliance,Empire, and Federation; the departure of the first colony ship; thelaunch of the first satellite; the invention of radio itself. Itfeels like going back in time. In another few days, it will be as ifI’m piloting a ship while Buddha is still sitting under his tree. Beyond that, if I had a large enough telescope, I might see the firsthumans put a tentative foot out of Africa. Having a frameshift drivefeels like cheating.
Evenmore bizarrely, signals sent since I left have overtaken theseancient ones to reach me, bringing a nice farewell from LegateAndariel and friends. Relativity is odd at the best of times, butadd frame-shift weirdness and you get something truly mind-bending. The speed of light in vacuum has to be observed as constant whateveryour frame of reference, even if space is squished up around you. Sowhen you supercruise you get to see the rest of the system almost inreal time, even though the light from them would not reach someonenext to you in normal space for many minutes. It also means that anysignals sent while you are frame-shifting can cross light-years inseconds. All ships automatically collect and relay such information,and carry it in their data banks. Thus humanity is kept in sync.
Therange isn’t infinite, though. I am passing beyond the range ofeffective communication. There is some chance that news may catchup, especially if another ship travels past me, but it can’t becounted on.
Ihave found more life. There were macroscopic ceatures visible on thesurface of one planet, but the gravity was too high to land. No signof technological intelligence, but one day, they may develop it. Iwanted to leave them something, so I found an asteroid orbiting theirplanet. My armament is very light, but I managed to carve it into apyramid shape. I considered nudging it out of orbit to crash to thesurface, but assuming it survived and something intelligent didbehold it, they might start religious wars over it or something. SoI left it there to find if they discover space travel, a message theyare not alone. It might be a comfort or a warning, that’s up tothem.
Forthe night, I set down on a water world, again with life. Anacondasare designed to be amphibious, which makes sense given how many oceanplanets I’m finding compared to Earth-type ones (nil so far) andhow much easier it is for some colonies to stick a crane by a lake orsea than to build a conda-sized pad.
Ifirst checked to make sure there were no nasty storms due or giantwaves sloshing about [ you Interstellar and Prometheus!]. Thetrick is to come in at speed like an ancient flying-boat, don’t tryvertical or your jets will foam up the water and you might submerge,which would be uncomfortable if not dangerous; the hull has doubleseals for internal and external pressure, but a ’conda isn’t aMoray. Still, when Nephthys was down she made a decent boat, albeitriding a bit high and uneven thanks to her light load-out and havingonly my provisions to shift about as ballast. I’ve always thoughtshe looked a bit like a u-boat anyway, don’t tell her I said that.
Islept well, rocking gently on the waves of a tropical ocean. Whenthe sun rose I took a lounger out on deck, needing only abreathing-mask. Some of the creatures had left the ocean, thingslike aerial manta rays and cuttlefish soaring overhead or skimmingthe waves. Katzenstein gnashed his teeth at them; he was in a badmood because he had to wear a lanyard in case he fell in, but after awhile he stretched out in the sun with me. I considered improvisinga fishing line, but it struck me that would be bad manners.
WhenI launch, I will partition this planet’s data to be private. Humans might terraform this place; the changes in gas balance wouldexterminate all but their hardiest bacteria. I won’t beresponsible for that.
TheEmperor’s wedding is tomorrow. For a moment I feel tempted to turnback so I can pick up the news, but I’m relaxing now. I’m sureit will go fine and everything will still be there when I return.
Distancefrom Sol: 2,378 LY
standard apols for the way it strips spaces out of anything I paste at random!
Iput my head down and made some distance. Since I left I haveovertaken radio transmissions announcing the birth of the Alliance,Empire, and Federation; the departure of the first colony ship; thelaunch of the first satellite; the invention of radio itself. Itfeels like going back in time. In another few days, it will be as ifI’m piloting a ship while Buddha is still sitting under his tree. Beyond that, if I had a large enough telescope, I might see the firsthumans put a tentative foot out of Africa. Having a frameshift drivefeels like cheating.
Evenmore bizarrely, signals sent since I left have overtaken theseancient ones to reach me, bringing a nice farewell from LegateAndariel and friends. Relativity is odd at the best of times, butadd frame-shift weirdness and you get something truly mind-bending. The speed of light in vacuum has to be observed as constant whateveryour frame of reference, even if space is squished up around you. Sowhen you supercruise you get to see the rest of the system almost inreal time, even though the light from them would not reach someonenext to you in normal space for many minutes. It also means that anysignals sent while you are frame-shifting can cross light-years inseconds. All ships automatically collect and relay such information,and carry it in their data banks. Thus humanity is kept in sync.
Therange isn’t infinite, though. I am passing beyond the range ofeffective communication. There is some chance that news may catchup, especially if another ship travels past me, but it can’t becounted on.
Ihave found more life. There were macroscopic ceatures visible on thesurface of one planet, but the gravity was too high to land. No signof technological intelligence, but one day, they may develop it. Iwanted to leave them something, so I found an asteroid orbiting theirplanet. My armament is very light, but I managed to carve it into apyramid shape. I considered nudging it out of orbit to crash to thesurface, but assuming it survived and something intelligent didbehold it, they might start religious wars over it or something. SoI left it there to find if they discover space travel, a message theyare not alone. It might be a comfort or a warning, that’s up tothem.
Forthe night, I set down on a water world, again with life. Anacondasare designed to be amphibious, which makes sense given how many oceanplanets I’m finding compared to Earth-type ones (nil so far) andhow much easier it is for some colonies to stick a crane by a lake orsea than to build a conda-sized pad.
Ifirst checked to make sure there were no nasty storms due or giantwaves sloshing about [ you Interstellar and Prometheus!]. Thetrick is to come in at speed like an ancient flying-boat, don’t tryvertical or your jets will foam up the water and you might submerge,which would be uncomfortable if not dangerous; the hull has doubleseals for internal and external pressure, but a ’conda isn’t aMoray. Still, when Nephthys was down she made a decent boat, albeitriding a bit high and uneven thanks to her light load-out and havingonly my provisions to shift about as ballast. I’ve always thoughtshe looked a bit like a u-boat anyway, don’t tell her I said that.
Islept well, rocking gently on the waves of a tropical ocean. Whenthe sun rose I took a lounger out on deck, needing only abreathing-mask. Some of the creatures had left the ocean, thingslike aerial manta rays and cuttlefish soaring overhead or skimmingthe waves. Katzenstein gnashed his teeth at them; he was in a badmood because he had to wear a lanyard in case he fell in, but after awhile he stretched out in the sun with me. I considered improvisinga fishing line, but it struck me that would be bad manners.
WhenI launch, I will partition this planet’s data to be private. Humans might terraform this place; the changes in gas balance wouldexterminate all but their hardiest bacteria. I won’t beresponsible for that.
TheEmperor’s wedding is tomorrow. For a moment I feel tempted to turnback so I can pick up the news, but I’m relaxing now. I’m sureit will go fine and everything will still be there when I return.
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My first reaction to this thread:
Just thought I'd point out, the minute you opened your airlock you introduced a zillion potentially invasive bacteria, fungi, and viri to that planet.
Might as well score some credits off the data.
You also might want to swing by the medbay to make sure you and your clothes didn't pick up any unpleasant hitchhikers.
I guess the game lore has to take precedence but the odds of molecular structures being compatible enough for viruses to infect anything from a different planet seem pretty low to me. If life has advanced as far as flying animals, the odds of any bacteria, fungi or algae being better adapted to local conditions than the indigenous seems pretty low as well--I thought I'd chance it! Of course, we'll have to wait a LONG time to find out what aliens are like...
Thank you all for the links, I'm quite amazed by the size of all this, I didn't realize ^^
I understand now why some people want to walk on their ship, you could have a lot of crew members working in an anaconda.
I had the same wow when I realize there is 1000+ people working inside the battleships of Eve.
I understand now why some people want to walk on their ship, you could have a lot of crew members working in an anaconda.
I had the same wow when I realize there is 1000+ people working inside the battleships of Eve.
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I bet the orca would swim majestically nose first straight down to the ocean floor.
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It's practically the same topic. That's why it was merged.