Player Features and Ideas Discussion

And your immersion won't be just as broken when you bounce off a planet?

Because planets are larger than a single grid, even with the super expanded grids they have added. The largest planets I believe would require 125 grids worth of size just to model the single collision sphere.
They might be able to work out some nice tech trick to get around that issue of course, but making a neat tech trick takes more Dev time than simply using an existing solution.

If you want immersion then your idea is still useless because in real life your ship would not simply bounce off. In real life you have to maintain an orbit at a specific speed depending on distance from the planet or your ship is pulled into the gravity well which would pull you closer and closer to the surface ultimately ending in a crash with the surface where your ship and pod explode into a big fire ball, provided of course they survived the intense heat of an uncontrolled re-entry. This could very easily be handle in game by simply telling you that your ship was caught in the gravity well of the moon / planet and then exploding your ship and pod after giving you as few moments to try and warp off, which based on a random thing may or may not work.

In the end this is a game and our ships do not interact with planets in a way that is even close to reality, so I say why waste the time and effort with your idea. Instead I propose that you simply pretend that planets and moons are solid and that you cannot fly through them and then do not ever fly through them again.

The warp exit point for a planet has always been outside the planet. If you're warping to a planet and landing inside it, that's a bug and should be reported.

Warp drive lore leads to the ship being removed slightly from the current dimension, creating the tunnel like effect you see that allows you to warp though matter.

Other than that, the only way to actually fly into a planet or moon is to slow burn from the warp in to the planet. Stop doing that, and you won't be flying into planets again.

Actually for my immersion I would prefer to fly through some type of atmosphere (or no atmosphere) toward a proper surface where I can land.

As for not being allowed to warp into a planet, we have a mechanic already where the server checks your landing coordinates and makes sure you're not in a spherical object (called a warp disruption bubble). It's shaped just like most planets omg!

Make planets act like bubbles and call it a gravity well issue or something. Now they have some presence in the player's mind instead of being shiny christmas ornaments.

2017. **** this is going to happen for the next month

Our ships are not capable of safe atmospheric flight. The plating of which they are made has a small habit of burning in an atmosphere from chemical reactions, and well, have you seen the aerodynamics of our ships, Air resistance would tear them apart.

And shielding.

If we can withstand the head of an antimatter explosion to our shields, we should be able to mitigate friction heat.

One time I had this thread where I wanted to have landing on planets, but in a form of jumping into a spot on surface, by jump generator on the orbit, ship would appear in the base of some sorts. This was only to dock on surface. This way we would had planetary landings without gravity physics implemented and without any delays.

About the ships combusting, why was there planetary flight demo on one fasfest then? Planet had no oxygen? Composition of atmosphere?
I have seen more technical details retconned in history of gaming. Lets pretend some new research happened and now they use alloys that dont combust when touching oxygen atoms? Some groundbreaking thing would have to be added to a game, like maybe PI remake to justify that. But everyone, well mostly everyone, accepted the way PI is now.

welp it's true I read the lore and it says we can't have planetary gameplay, clear as day. So much for that.

Lore isn't make-believe in response to the gameplay or anything.