Crashing into the station and escaping

Helvellyn · Post by **Helvellyn** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 12:56 am

In an attempt to see a spectacular crash, I ran at the station with witchfuel injectors running, and launched my escape pod. There was a big enough flash that it looked like the station had gone, and when I re-launced after docking I was flying out of the solar system at some ludicrous speed that I seemed unable to change. That speed remained after hyperspacing to another system. I've managed to repeat this a couple of times, so it looks real.

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 1:11 am

Yes, the station can get launched at a ludicrous speed as a result of a big crash.

That the player can inherit that speed as his new reference speed, however, is new to me.

(And a question to the game logic: How could your escape pod follow the station anyway???)

julyy · Post by **julyy** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 9:53 am

I have done this a few weeks ago, with the same result. But I kept it as a secret

Post by **Cmdr James** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 7:27 pm

I think that the way to fix this is to change colision behaviour for stations. As stations cannot be destroyed I think they should be movable either.
There are too many odd things that can happen, like nudging the station into the planet, then what? If I understand the code the the station does get destroyed.
Pretty much any change to the stations location is a bit of an issue for the game.
Its very non real physics, but so is the whole game

We could change ShipEntity.m someplace around line 5870 (5886 and 5899 I think) or so to check if one of the entities is a station, and if so just not adjust it.

Alternatively, I guess we could add "manouvering jets" to the station, and have it gradually correct for being knocked about?

Incidentally, 1.69.1.1 when I tried this trick, I found the station gone, and my escape capsule was in a rock hermit or a dredger.

TGHC · Post by **TGHC** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 11:21 pm

Cmdr James wrote:
Incidentally, 1.69.1.1 when I tried this trick, I found the station gone, and my escape capsule was in a rock hermit or a dredger.

Now that is interesting, are you sure you weren't suffering from amnesia?

nijineko · Post by **nijineko** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:13 pm

maybe 'e didn't sell the liquor to the rock hermit after all.... ;p

Wiggy · Post by **Wiggy** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:55 am

I, for one, welcome momentum-flinging space stations.

It adds to the open-ended feel of the game, and it's nice thing to try when you have some spare time.

The station will be restored the next time you visit the system, anyway.

Helvellyn · Post by **Helvellyn** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 9:04 pm

A little followup - if I eject in a planet's atmosphere, I start getting the cabin temperature rising as soon as I re-launch; it looks like the game still thinks I'm in the atmosphere.

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 9:16 pm

Confirmed. Note added to a related bug ticket.