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In reality, there is (almost) no force to reduce speed in space.

It was quite unituitive to me in the beginning that when I boost the spaceship, it works lke a car on earth rather than a spaceship. I'd have liked the spaceship to continue to gain speed when either the boost was applied or you continue to throttle the engine. They could have kept a fuel limit to keep the speed in check.

What are your thoughts on this? Would you have liked this to be more based in reality or prefer the familiar car based speed/acceleration that's in the game?

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It's the same in most space-based games, and whilst disappointing for fans of physics, it would be far too difficult to properly simulate, as funky things happen in physics engines when ludicrous speed is achieved.

[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It would be easier to simulate, since not only is the physics known and easy, not doing anything (no deceleration) is also very easy.

That's not how physics engines work, mate.

[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

They have a tick speed, which is how often they update the values for objects being simulated, if you're going too fast, you jump too far between ticks, and can skip collisions and such entirely, it ends up far too janky, and is why otherwise accurate games have top speeds.

[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The maximum speed is not what we are discussing here, it is the automatic deceleration, which has to be calculated each tick. The maximum speed is the same in both cases.

Yeah no, I got confused, I shouldn't discuss things in the early hours lol

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