Aboot Capital Ship Piloting...

[NKato]

https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/comment/5187176/#Comment_5187176

At one rotation every 31.7187 seconds you're looking at 1g of acceleration at 250 meters out and 2g at the ends - 50% of the ship would have an easier time walking on the walls than the floor, which is made dangerous by that fact that if they did so they'd be experiencing 2g of negative vertical acceleration - just a bit below the point where they're going to start blacking out after long term exposure. Any faster and you're going to start losing crew at the extremities.

TL;DR = "Hard 'a port, maximum speed." "Aye aye, hard 'a port, maximum speed." *thirty seconds pass* *THUMP THUMP BAM WHUMP SPLAT* "CREW KNOCKED OUT."

</War Thunder>

 

[WarrenPeace]

Fortunately, flying into the sun only requires one turn and no further inputs.

 

[shadowvinez]

Fortunately, flying into the sun only requires one turn and no further inputs.

YOUR SIG HAS A TYPO my instead of may just sayin

 

[WarrenPeace]

YOUR SIG HAS A TYPO my instead of may just sayin

My sig has Glorious Leader's original phrasing, AS IT SHOULD BE

 

[AntiSqueaker]

REALISM!!!!!

Yeah, I doubt even an Idris is going to be that "labor intensive" to pilot. Much easier to just let a computer do the numbers and select the most optimal acceleration curves and shit and not have half your crew be brained against a wall.

I will be shocked if "combat speed" for a Bengal or Pegasus is more than 30 m/s, because after that point you will have so much inertia it will be almost impossible to turn quickly enough to position yourself.

 

[RedjackQuisterJr]

Capital ships does not like HOTAS!!

Mouse and Keyboard FTW!!

 

[AntiSqueaker]

Capital ships does not like HOTAS!!

Mouse and Keyboard FTW!!

I mean, if you wanna get technical, all the flying on Star Trek was done via touchpads/keyboards, so theres a bit of precedence!

 

[RedjackQuisterJr]

I mean, if you wanna get technical, all the flying on Star Trek was done via touchpads/keyboards, so theres a bit of precedence!

lol

 

[AntiSqueaker]

lol

 

[WarrenPeace]

lol

 

[Kersakov]

So we don't get to do Bengal Barrel-Roll...?

 

[Black Sunder]

I say we open a few bottles, sit on the bridge of the ship and watch as it gloriously falls into the sun. The tears we reap from the community for destroying such a valuable ship will be incredible.

 

[EpilepticCricket]

So.... what I'm taking from this update is that the best way to incapacitate a cap ship for the purpose of capturing it as undamaged as possible, is to get a few of the fastest moving tug boats to anchor to the nose or tail of the enemy ship... and spin that bitch like a merry-go-round until everyone on it is dead. Then we just walk in and take it.

We dun goofed when we voted for the hospital ship.

 

[ThomSirveaux]

I say we open a few bottles, sit on the bridge of the ship and watch as it gloriously falls into the sun. The tears we reap from the community for destroying such a valuable ship will be incredible.

Don't worry. We'll get insurance on it. And by "insurance" I mean stealing CORP's carrier to replace the one we crashed into the sun. Then crash THAT one into a different sun, and then steal ADI's Carrier to replace that one. And then crash again, to show dominance, and then steal one of our own, just to show that we wanted to.

 

[Black Sunder]

Don't worry. We'll get insurance on it. And by "insurance" I mean stealing CORP's carrier to replace the one we crashed into the sun. Then crash THAT one into a different sun, and then steal ADI's Carrier to replace that one. And then crash again, to show dominance, and then steal one of our own, just to show that we wanted to.

Stealing our own carrier? When do we start?

 

[ThomSirveaux]

If you didn't start a week ago you're already too late.

I propose that we all get drunk and raid RussianJ's stream.

 

[Halvix]

The proper way to pilot a capital ship is from the cockpit of my Aurora that I've just crashed into the bridge of said capital ship.

 

[Adiran]

Can't wait for capital ship piloting.

 

[Fenrig]

The proper way to pilot a capital ship is from the cockpit of my Aurora that I've just crashed into the bridge of said capital ship.

You mean a la the mining pod/necrocraft in Guardians of the Galaxy?

 

[Halvix]

You mean a la the mining pod/necrocraft in Guardians of the Galaxy?

Yeah... like that... except with a beer in hand...