What kind of tools will we have to reduce purchase risk of various items?For instance, I want a tool that lets me enter in specs for suit/ship/engines/position in ship and have it spit out the % throttle the person in that position in the ship will black out.This will help me buy the suit/ship/engine that best suits my flying and purposes without having to randomly experiment by buying everything.asked by SilentRuin
TL;DRChris Roberts doesn't think there will be a tool calculating blackout thresholds; item descriptions will convey trade-offs, and he expects the community to work out the specifics.
Yeah, I'm not sure we're gonna have a tool that will do that.I think you're going to know when you're purchasing some of this stuff, it will say like "this is a space suit for extreme maneuvering" and it's got a higher g-tolerance. Or "These are bigger thrusters" so the up side is you can turn faster, the downside is you can black out much quicker. And that would all be contained in the description in the fiction.But I don't think we're gonna have anything that would specifically say "You can have your throttle at this percentage and you won't black out, but this percentage it will."I'm assuming that what will probably happen is the community itself will break all that down, 'cause that's usually what happens so there's not really a tool for you other than the community being your resource and just the way we describe the items. There you go.