Weigh stations? srsly?

[agrimes]

How in god's name does anyone justify the existence of weighstations in spaaace? dear god they're annoying...

[CryptiC]

I see you have no idea about physics. Even in space, weight plays a role. Weight is mass and masses generate gravity. So maybe it's important to check this after all. Besides, it's a game. And therefore simply a gameplay element!

[PajamaBanana]

It's a game, about space trucking and we're in a spaceship that actually looks like an old school semi truck and you think weight stations are the thing that's out of place?

[agrimes]

If the law of universal gravitation was in effect, then Haze way would have collapsed into a planet ages ago. =|

[RekoHart]

Hey at least there isn't space highway patrol making sure we are filling out our space log book to make sure we are getting proper space rest cycles

[Konsaki]

Originally posted by RekoHart:

Hey at least there isn't space highway patrol making sure we are filling out our space log book to make sure we are getting proper space rest cycles

Having done that in real life, minus the space aspect, I can tell you that paper logs are a ♥♥♥♥♥... easy to 'massage' but a ♥♥♥♥♥ to keep annotated.

[Uriel]

Originally posted by CryptiC:

I see you have no idea about physics. Even in space, weight plays a role. Weight is mass and masses generate gravity.

Weight isn't mass. Weight is derived from mass and the gravitational constant, and in space you have no gravitational constant, so no weight. Your own gravity is negligible.

However, mass maters for inertia. A space truck with too much mass would have more inertia, thus would turn and brake with more difficulty. So, safety reasons :P

[lefty1117]

They probably should call it the mass station

[Datucis]

The real issue I have with the weigh stations is that you can just lie in them lol. If you simply take the weight out over your ship at the opening you can reclaim it right afterwards. So you can technically have however much you want in the cab and anytime they want you to weigh you ship just dump a bit. This makes the entire mechanic pointless imo.

Either need to add a penalty for sell/dumping before hitting a weigh station or just get rid of it entirely.

[BattlePants#2233]

Originally posted by CryptiC:

I see you have no idea about physics. Even in space, weight plays a role. Weight is mass and masses generate gravity. So maybe it's important to check this after all. Besides, it's a game. And therefore simply a gameplay element!

I don't think you understand we're pulling triple trailers and mini asteroids even, but having an extra can of fuel in cabin is too much weight for the truck, at the weight station...
I repeat, they have mini asteroids as cargo that weight 250K+ kg. All your theories make 0 sense, just like the weigh station.
It was clearly put to limit the amount of trade supplies you can have in the cabin... To make the game even more punishable....

[Kerovan]

So I came across this by accident and bad timing, I saved my game right before I went in the weight station, then went in and was over. I gave my gas away cause you know Jerry cans are heavy...

My wife asked me to go to the store so i shut down forgetting to save after the weigh in. When I got back to the store I reloaded my game back up and it was just in-front of the weight station but the quest to get weight was no longer there.. so I went on about my business with my Jerry Cans safely tucked away on my shelf... I have replicated this many times since and it has worked every time.

It makes them no big deal anymore just save right before, then load the save and the request for a weight in will be gone. At least until a dev sees this post and patches the game.

[Omence072]

You're upset because you have to do truck stuff in a truck game lol