So..... There I was, just minding my business on a mining run....
And kept having to correct for drift.
Checked my controls, trim, etc. and was puzzled for a few moments until I checked my instruments and saw the gravity readout registering a gradually incrementing number...
I was being pulled into a sideways drift by the gravity well of a nearby star.
I completed my mining operation while having to correct for the grav field continually and smiling the whole time.
I had to post up my geek moment and give another thumbs up to Vice for the great work. Epic really.
As much as I would love true gravity in evochron I don't think it's really possible given the way the engine operates. Even if it was made possible it would require a lot of dynamic updating of nav component's to determine where things are going to be at any given time.
With orbiting that throws in another element. "Time". Everything in relation to one another in reality is the fundemental basis of time. It would be amazing but it would get very complex very quickly. Especially considering nothing is to scale.
Originally posted by Aures
Nah the asteroids are stationary, nothing orbits anything in Evochron.
The real geeks among us have noticed that gravity in Evochron is nothing like reality. Still, it is nice that there is at least a nod towards it.
The navigation system relies on everything having a static location and it would be a massive overhaul to make planets rotate and orbit stars. But the way gravity works in Evochron could be changed to allow ships to orbit planets etc.
With gravity you would never know where a planet was around its star or where a station was (unless it was in geostationary orbit) around its planet. Asteroid fields would have condensed into loose rubble balls as the asteroids attracted each other or would have formed very very thin rings around a star or a planet. Docking at a space staion in orbit around a planet would be very difficult - as you increased velocity to move towards it you would move into a more distant orbit around the planet!
Do the particles making up planetary rings move? perhaps they are in a geostationary orbit!
[Edited on 3-11-2010 by DaveK]
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