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Well, yes, of course.. but I was just pointing out the hole in Ahruman's handwavium..El Viejo wrote:That would be kinda fun - but no, if the player ejects, then they find themselves back at a station after - what is it - ten, twenty seconds?Diziet Sma wrote:As it means if you eject from a ship moving away from the planet at high speed, you're doomed to drift in deep space forever.
No, just for quite some time. After all, the escape pod does have a tiny engine, and it does counter the initial velocity.Diziet Sma wrote:Ahh.. so the tiny little engine is powerless against the initial vector imparted by the ship it was launched from.. that makes sense. Sorta. As it means if you eject from a ship moving away from the planet at high speed, you're doomed to drift in deep space forever.El Viejo wrote:This was the reply to my query about it.
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At least this one is easily answered: Elite's/Oolite's ships don't burn fuel in normal flight, as evidenced from your own fuel usage during normal flight (= 0, if you don't use injectors).Diziet Sma wrote:and how many hours of burn does it have before the engine is out of fuel?
I don't know about canon, but I've always assumed that it's some sort of reactionless drive which interacts with the substance of spacetime. There was some musing on it a long time ago here, memorable (to me, at any rate) for Aegidian's comment thatDiziet Sma wrote:Yeah.. I've always wondered about that.. is there any Canon/handwavium about it?
aegidian wrote:Oolite - normal space - drives burrow through the semi-rigid phlogiston leaving glowing subspace channels that heal at a constant rate, like hot boiled prunes through icy jelly.
Yeah, that has always stuck in my mind too... good old phlogiston!Disembodied wrote:aegidian wrote:Oolite - normal space - drives burrow through the semi-rigid phlogiston leaving glowing subspace channels that heal at a constant rate, like hot boiled prunes through icy jelly.
I don't know if this would be possible and is certainly outside my area of experience at the moment <waits for one of the scripting boffins to advise>Duggan wrote:I am very fond of this OXP, I do look forward to further escape vehicles if any are in development. Further escape pod models are indeed under development including a rare but fast luxury pod which will be much more difficult to scoop.
I generally work on one of these additional pods between larger more time consuming projects in order to break things up a little.
I wondered if it was possible , that the better the escape pod scooped could in any way be reflected in the insurance/bounty payout on docking ?
