I have a question about EVA while moving. When I leave my moving ship I instantly stop relative to the ship. Following Newton's First Law of Motion I should remain at the same speed as my ship, and be able to do an EVA regardless of velocity i.e. 2001 a Space Odyssey. Will this ever be an option in the game?asked by Byetor
TL;DRChris Roberts says the team has debated this, and the likely approach is that players inherit the parent ship's velocity, reduced to a controllable speed, without necessarily allowing exits at very high speed.
This is something we've debated internally. The conflict with it is, we want to cap your individual player velocity so it doesn't become too big to control or arrest. For instance your EVA pack doesn't have nearly the amount of fuel or thrust power that say, for instance, your spaceship would necessarily have. Although the other flip side of that, is that you should inherit the velocity of your parent object. So if you step off a Freelancer that's going 200 m/s, I should probably be flying 200 m/s, or moving at 200 m/s.We sort of go back and forth on our debate on this because essentially what happens is the EVA system has several thresholds. One, it has a normal one which is 15 m/s, and then it has the "boost" one, which is 50 m/s maybe 100 m/s, I honestly can't remember what that is. Those are the ranges that it caps you in, in the same way that ships themselves are capped.Don't forget that there is only a certain amount of thrust on your EVA pack. So there's a certain point where, just for instance if you were like designing it so people couldn't get themselves in trouble, you probably would cap how fast you would let them accelerate to because they would need to have enough thrust available for them to decelerate back down to zero; or else you would get up to a certain speed and you would never be able to stop unless someone else stopped you. As an individual in an EVA suit, getting stopped when you're at a fast speed would either be very painful, fatal, or would take someone a lot of care to do. That's kind of it. We sort of have the trade off. I would think that what we would probably do, is if you went out EVAing at speed, you would go out at speed and it would bleed your speed down to a more controllable amount, but you should inherit the velocity of your parent ship. I don't know whether we'd let you open the airlock doors and get out when you're in cruise or anything really fast. At precision mode, definitely, SCM, again that would depend on the speeds you were doing.