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

TL;DRNot all ships will have artificial gravity, mostly larger ones, and it won't much change G-forces, since pulling hard turns still pushes occupants, with zero-G also modeled.

Chris RobertsCEO / Game Director

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 sort of 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 as options. And one of the things that potentially could be something that would be fun to disrupt boarders would be to basically disable your artificial gravity and then all of a sudden you're in zero-G. How it affects the G-force system? Well, really not so much. Pilots fly around here on Earth and they're experiencing the gravity of Earth, yet they still deal with Gs 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. 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. So you'll still have, obviously, G-forces happening even when there's artificial gravity. But generally, the other thing to remember is it's the bigger ships that would more likely have the artificial gravity. So, for instance, the Hornet doesn't really have artificial gravity because you're strapped in. But the bigger ships, you probably won't be able to pull as hard maneuvers as you would necessarily in, say, some of the smaller ships, which is, again, part of the sort of trade-off balance between big ships and 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 the question.

Wingman's Hangar›ep053 . January 17, 2014·
Published on this date.17 Jan 2014