Oolite Bulletins

Since we’re talking about physical realism here, there’s no such thing as “not moving”. To be precise "not moving relative to the target". Which is completely NP. And as I mentioned before, the "game" NP implementation should not go as far as having orbits and moving stations. A...

As many of you already said, NP-less fighter has much lower chances to survive. Ill give an example taken from HomePlanet game (the one which in my opinion is just spot on between being a game and a simulator). A ship has 2 modes of flight Inertial mode : In this mode the ship is totally under contr...

Well, the problem you have by saying that they "improve" the space ship by removing the Newtonian law is slightly misleading. Exploiting newtonian physics gives a very big advantage in fights. As an example, in a simple shooter, you can either run straight at your enemy, or you can strafe ...

You do have a right point that the ships will barely meet in that case. On the other hand, going further and implementing orbits and trajectories is in the category of a hardcore sim. All is needed, is an unlimited speed and friction-less space. Of course the amount of fuel you carry will never let ...

Sorry for necroing the topic, but I would just like to add 2c. I was browsing the net for quite a while in the search for another space-sim (and sim in the sence of it being friction-less space) game. And ought to say that most games are indeed taking it either way TOO far into the realism, or its b...