Skellybones posted:

Ok so I'm mad about the gravity generators

They have at least one ship and space station that use rotating sections to create a simulacrum of gravity in parts, that's cool, that's how it would work IRL and in some stations in Elite

But everything has gravity generators so there's no point in having spinners

Let alone on the loving launch pads. A ship trying to take off has to actually hit an escape velocity to launch, in space. Then once it exits the gravity field it has to compensate for the engines being at 100% with suddenly no resistance slowing it down.

That's not a terribly huge issue as long as there is nothing above the launch pad that the ship could conceivably rubber band into.

But landing? What a nightmare that would be. You're floating towards the pad in 0g, nothing to it. Then you hit the invisible gravity zone and your ship is assailed by 1g punching you down directly into the deck plating. You don't even have atmospheric resistance to slow you down. You're forced into an unpowered crash every time you want to land.

And how does the station gravity interact with the ship gravity? Does a landed ship have 2g worth of gravity? Is that why the ladder climbing is so slow?

And what the gently caress happens to the rotating section ship when it lands and takes station gravity