Piloting Question
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They were talking about still attempting to figure out how to pilot the capital ships given their size and complexity and one of the possible ways was with clicking and creating a way point the ship navigates to.
you could use 1 side of your split throttle to control Prospector mining laser operation.. if you are going to do mining that is.
Just a thought and who knows how many more uses such a split throttle may have in the future.
My understanding with the new flight model is that we’ll control both throttle and acceleration independantly. Each mapped to the two throttles i would think would work great.
I'm not super interested in mining, but that would be a great way to control a tractor beam. I've no idea when that is going to be enabled, but there is a Tractor listed for the Kore, and there are half dozen other ships that would certainly benefit from one or two--Reclaimer, Vulture, BMM, all the Hull series, etc. I'd like to think there would be one in the bay of the Carrack, Polaris, Idris, etc.
I do recall discussions about how smaller ships can't tractor larger ones without doing themselves damage, so I know it is planned to be a thing. I haven't heard word of tractor dynamics in game in ages, but who knows, maybe we'll see something with the next patch releasing the other Reliants?
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A 180 degree turn... is actually possible.
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You know, after watching that video clip... it should be possible to do that in SC. The turn is the only hard G's... but we can do that already in uncoupled mode. The acceleration in the other direction doesn't occur until the turn is complete. I don't think you need a main engine reversal to do that either, right now we can turn pretty quickly as long as the retro's aren't ruining your surprise. I don't think I'd casually hold on to something at ~ 400 Mph or so, but that's artistic license in a movie. The game's physics don't appear to be broken by that move.
G-force is a concern no matter how close you are to the center of a turn. That's what dizzy is. Just the couple of millimeters from a turn's center you are still subject to bigger than enough G forces to cause a reaction.
BUT!
You know, after watching that video clip... it should be possible to do that in SC. The turn is the only hard G's... but we can do that already in uncoupled mode. The acceleration in the other direction doesn't occur until the turn is complete. I don't think you need a main engine reversal to do that either, right now we can turn pretty quickly as long as the retro's aren't ruining your surprise. I don't think I'd casually hold on to something at ~ 400 Mph or so, but that's artistic license in a movie. The game's physics don't appear to be broken by that move.
Well dizzy you will get based upon your rate of rotation, and that can get to a virtual pilot! but the actual forces that cause blackout are inertial, so you can't expereince them from flying online, and they're a linear function with the radius of the curvature, so the further you are from the center of rotation, the more forces you will experience.
This is also why I don't like the HammerHead. Most SC ships make sense in some measure. Even the alien ships make sense after a fashion, you just need to understand the guiding principles. The HH really does not make sense. The center of rotation is where you want the bulk of your mass in a ship, so it can be caused to rotate easily. Moving it out (larger than neccessary radius) makes all that mass resist rotation as a linear funciton of the radial distance. So where you want your mass for good rotation rates, the HH has none, and where you do not want it, is where the twin hallways and other wasted space is.
I would rather have had a Scimitar, and really the HH was stolen from the Scimitar. I think they gave it the twin hallways and dopey layout to hide the fact they were stealing. Someone tell me, would you rather have the HH or this?
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This is also why I don't like the HammerHead. Most SC ships make sense in some measure. Even the alien ships make sense after a fashion, you just need to understand the guiding principles. The HH really does not make sense. The center of rotation is where you want the bulk of your mass in a ship, so it can be caused to rotate easily. Moving it out (larger than neccessary radius) makes all that mass resist rotation as a linear funciton of the radial distance. So where you want your mass for good rotation rates, the HH has none, and where you do not want it, is where the twin hallways and other wasted space is.
I would rather have had a Scimitar, and really the HH was stolen from the Scimitar. I think they gave it the twin hallways and dopey layout to hide the fact they were stealing. Someone tell me, would you rather have the HH or this?
I agree with you on maneuverability that you want the bulk of your mass as close as you can to the center of rotation. But on larger ships were maneuverability is already greatly reduced having the turrets located on arms adds to its capability by increasing their firing arc which on a anti fighter frigate such as the hammerhead is a good thing.