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Simple Space... The final frontier

32.7k Wakescar  8.7 years ago

A few months ago Deth were talking about how cool it would be to have a reachable simple moon for our space-type craft. Now with the addition of glorious night and a stunning moon, it seems perfect.
Just a small sphere with less gravity that you could land on and take off from without the complex order of operations seen in simple rockets.

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    1,535 humangrenade

    @Wakescar call NASA for a free trial of the moon but we aren't paying for the rocket. Darn, that would be to good to be true, and why would NASA advertise that?

    8.3 years ago
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    1,535 humangrenade

    @Wakescar call NASA for a free trial of the moon but we aren't paying for the rocket. Darn, that would be to good to be true and why would NASA advertise that ugh

    8.3 years ago
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    37.2k Rohan

    Or less.

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    37.2k Rohan

    And fingerprint still works on it, and even camera and microphones are protected! It only adds like 2 pounds af weight!

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    37.2k Rohan

    Man! That sucks. When you get a new iPad, get the Griffin Survivor case. I have the air 2 and it works brilliantly with it! It protects against drops from up to 6 feet! (Could Probably do more but I don't want to take a chance.) It's a heavy duty military case that's also Sandproof, wind proof, water resistant and dirt proof! Highly recommend! @Wakescar

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    32.7k Wakescar

    @Rohan I'd actually been planning on postings a few projects this week that I'd been working on over the summer. Unfortunately that won't be happening. Last week my iPad was destroyed
    at work! D: All prototypes with it!! D8 So I suppose I'll be out at least another month or two :( I hope to be able to start posting regularly again towards the end of November. I'm loving the new parts...

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    37.2k Rohan

    When do you come back?

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    1,501 elsanto9000

    AWESOMEEEEEEEskjdbkzxhjdosoajjd error 927-2 too excited about the idea...!

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    @Wakescar thank you very much. I really appreciate your kind words and your support. Popular or not, I like this idea a lot. Being able to launch from space and re-enter and land would be awesome.

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    32.7k Wakescar

    I suppose I should include how much I am thoroughly enjoying the existing addition to the map. Love what the devs have done with the place. The staggeringly vast expansion of terrain is what prompted me to suggest this as a possibility at all.

    8.7 years ago
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    32.7k Wakescar

    @TheLatentImage Thanks man! Didn't turn out to be as popular of an idea as I had hoped. There is a lot of change happening in the simple world right now so I suppose interplanetary travel isn't really a priority. Lol. Congrats again on the red tag!

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    I don't think that this idea is out of the realm of posibilites. Perhaps have a third "island" in the sky. As our altitude increases the effects of gravity diminish. Then there is zero gravity, and as we approach the 3rd upside down island in the sky, we are pulled in by it's gravity. Technically it would be a challenge, but I think that it is doable. Depends on how the devs have set up the foundation of the code I suppose. Great idea though.

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    3,757 PuhBuhGuh
    @AgDynamics oh be quiet with all your unity stuff. Just belive!
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    34.0k AgDynamics
    @PuhBuhGuh You could send a boat with a large fuel capacity away from the island in a straight line. If the world is a sphere, the boat will arrive back at the same island eventually. Or you could read up on the Unity engine and learn why it's not feasible for the world to actually be round.
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    3,757 PuhBuhGuh
    @AgDynamics how will you prove it? They removed the invisible walls when they implemented a new island...
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    All they need to do is let our planes work on simple rockets
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    32.7k Wakescar
    @AgDynamics Thanks for the comments and upvote! You're right, I'm probably asking a lot. Maybe something simpler then. Forget gravity reduction and make it closer and smaller. Similar to a third island but in the air. I think it would be great even if it were, say, a sixth the size of the original island. I suppose it would still need its own sphere of influence to enable you to land on all sides though. So I'm probably still aiming high, but space kicks ass. Lol. What do you think?
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    34.0k AgDynamics
    @PuhBuhGuh That's the game rendering the world in a sphere around the cockpit. The curve you see is not the curve of the earth, but rather the rendering "horizon." The game world itself has no curvature.
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    3,757 PuhBuhGuh
    @AgDynamics We can prove that the world is round already. Fly really really high and look at the curve of the planet. Killing off the cockpit people things for SCIENCE
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    34.0k AgDynamics
    We could finally prove that the world is flat! Really though I'm not sure it's feasible. May run into issues in terms of the scale. It would be pretty cool if there were a custom map with a rocky lunar landscape and moon gravity, but I have a feeling that removing the atmosphere and changing the gravity would wreak havoc on the flight physics.
    8.7 years ago