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Our ships are not designed to be inside of planets, it's like putting wheels on the USS Ronald Reagan and make it move in the ground, it was not made for that.

If we are going to have some interaction with planets, other than the feature we already have, CCP will create the machines for it.

Hi to all, and sorry for any misspellings

I think many people have put forward good ideas. I like Vincent Athena point (here). I hope I can explain.

As he said, our ships and all orbital object dont react to gravitation fields. As he said, they dont need have energy (Centrifugal force) to keep in orbit. Which means like he said. If you, in a gravitation field of a planet, 1m above or 100m or 1000m doesnt matter. Which implies their is some sort of gravity nulification system. Moreover if we look into bigger gravitation fields, like a sun or blackhole/wormhole. Ingame we can stay in front of a wormhole all day and dont get influenced by its energy/mass.


As he said: "Most every ship in the game can accelerate faster than 1 g (10 m/sec/sec) so they should be able to support their weight via thrust. But do they have to?" As I see it, with a gravity nulification system horizontal or vertical movement on a planet OR ANY OTHER GRAVITATION FIELD doesnt matter. What I mean with it? It means, a Spaceship moving from A to B -- 100m -- along the horizon of a planet or a Spaceshop moving from 0 to 100m above the ground doesnt matter. They need both the same energy.

I can see that ingame.... If you fly towards a sun -- a massive gravitation field -- you dont get influence by it (aka "suck in"), or you fly along/next to a sun; it doesnt matter, you need for both the same energy.





As for the point of "The main difference with flying in space and flying above the surface of a planet is that there is gravity and air that causes friction and all kinds of other troubles." Which I which I split in two: (1) gravitation field of a planet (2) friction. As for (1) As other already mention, the gravitation field of a planet is nothing, to suns or wormholes, so if a spaceship hasnt any problems with those, it should have for sure not have a problem with a flimsy planet. The same counts for point (2). When I can jump in and out of a gravitation anomaly (aka Wormhole), without even get red shields I should with ease go in and out of an atmosphere. Both are movements which spike energy (which means also friction, etc...) as they "go through"/"cut through" gravitation field lines/mass, but those are really on a different scale. If a ship can survive a jump through a wormhole, then it can survive for sure that bit of atmosphere. As already told by others, I think the shields should do just fine.

As for the point: About "bricks" and "aerodynamics". As Vincent Athena alredy said, all comes down to if a object is able to support its weight via thrust. What many people dont know is that actually our military airplanes are flying bricks... or lets say flying rockets......and their anhedral wings mean that no human can control them*. They are control by a onboard-computer, and the monkey on the stick is just that, a moneky on a stick. I know I can already here you people: "Dude why they have wings?" The wings are less a control thingy, and more a support for their heavy weight (and our ships dont need that, as they have engouh thrust).

But this discussion is actully not needed, if we go out from the fact that all ships have a gravity nulification system**. As I said, then they just need energy to move from A to B.


Your
-PV


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P.S. Again sorry for any misspellings.
*they are the opposite of dihedral wings. Dihedral wings counter a rolling moment, because the surface of the lower wing gets bigger, which means a increase in stability. Anhedral wings are the opposite.
**A gravity nulification system could be also a cheap cop out for the case that our ships are getting slowed down (just make something up ). What I mean with it? Example, when we turn of a Afterburner we loss speed like if we were in a submarine.

As someone already mentioned CCP actually did do this at one point. I have no idea why it ended with the demo but linking it here for those that havent seen it before.

No need, I can tell you. It's just one of those things CCP thought would be cool, they spent a fair bit of resources for it, until someone higher up decided it was outdated or something else was cooler and it was promptly abandoned with all due haste because that one word is law. /bittervet

See: All other things they have demoed before, such as the WiS wreck exploration thing, WiS in general. /bittervet2

Gravity does not exist in EvE.

This aspect of planetary life that in our real lives we have come to view as a normal and inescapable law of nature, governing various principles of mass and matter, simply does not exist in the parallel universe that contains New Eden.

This is why planets do not maintain orbits around their suns, and why you can sit at any distance from any of the celestial objects of varying degrees of super massive without any silly vertiginous accumulation of retrograde or as otherwise motion.

Forget your antigrav machines... those thrusters on Drops Ships are for sexy drive by's during he odd lull in corporate greed.


At any time in which you feel that gravity is somehow affecting you, be that in station or playing DUST, take the time to reconsider your erroneous assumption.

*cue Twilight Zone Title Music*