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Will all ships have artificial gravity? If so, how does that affect the g-force system you spoke about for dogfighting?asked by Holo-san Voidrax

TL;DRNot all ships will have artificial gravity, mainly bigger ones; g-forces still apply during hard turns, and bigger ships likely can't maneuver as hard as smaller ones.

So not all ships will have artificial gravity, most of the bigger ones where you walk around probably will have artificial gravity. I'm sort of playing with the idea that maybe on some ones you would just have more magnetic boots because we are actually modeling for our first person combat artificial gravity and zero-g combat so we're going to have all those options and one of the things that potentially you could be something that would be fun would be to disrupt borders would be to disable your artificial gravity and all this sudden you're in zero-g. How it affects g-forces, well I mean really not so much. You know, pilots fly around here on earth and they're experiencing the gravity of earth, yet they still deal with g's as they pull tight turns, and the same would definitely be true in space if you have artificial gravity in your ship and you start to really pull a really hard right turn you will, since you're not statically bound to the object that's turning right, there will be an equal and opposite force on you and you'll be getting pushed, and so you'll probably still have some level, I mean you'll still have obviously g-forces even when there's artificial gravity, but generally the other thing to I think remember is the bigger ships that you would more likely have the artificial gravity. So for instance the Hornet doesn't really have artificial gravity cause you're strapped in, but the bigger ships, you probably won't be able to pull as hard of maneuvers as you would necessarily in say some of the smaller ships, which is again part of the trade-off/balance between big ships small ships. Big ships have more armor, more weapons, but then again they can't move quite as quickly and all the rest of the stuff, so I hope that answers your question.

10 for the Chairman›Episode 05 (2014.01.17)·
Published on this date.17 Jan 2014
EpisodePhysicsShips