really high gravity?

[Jamie Lee Curtis]

so, do I just have to have xxl thrusters on everything to ensure that I'm able to leave lava planets?.....caaaaaauuuuuuse....the gravity here is absolutely ridiculous. I'm trying to do the polaris missions, which require me to go to a lava planet, and I dont like using cheats, for the most part, but I kinda said "♥♥♥♥ it" and used godmode to leave the planet.

[Jamie Lee Curtis]

also, wondering if maybe I should just start working on a small lightweight ship with just the basics, for the sake of exploring and escaping these planets.

[BlazeD]

You can see the gravity of the planet on the sector screen before you try to land on it. If you can't get off a planet its your fault for not checking.

[Tarc Novar]

Originally posted by podopo:

so, do I just have to have xxl thrusters on everything to ensure that I'm able to leave lava planets?.....caaaaaauuuuuuse....the gravity here is absolutely ridiculous. I'm trying to do the polaris missions, which require me to go to a lava planet, and I dont like using cheats, for the most part, but I kinda said "♥♥♥♥ it" and used godmode to leave the planet.

I had problems with the high-gravity planets in the past. Made me realize quickly that my SV I thought was pretty spiffy was not as powerful as I thought.

For early-to-mid game, I use a smaller, less powerful SV. For late-game, I have an SV loaded for bear when I head to lava planets. Makes surviving much easier.

[Jamie Lee Curtis]

Originally posted by Tarc Novar:

Originally posted by podopo:

so, do I just have to have xxl thrusters on everything to ensure that I'm able to leave lava planets?.....caaaaaauuuuuuse....the gravity here is absolutely ridiculous. I'm trying to do the polaris missions, which require me to go to a lava planet, and I dont like using cheats, for the most part, but I kinda said "♥♥♥♥ it" and used godmode to leave the planet.

I had problems with the high-gravity planets in the past. Made me realize quickly that my SV I thought was pretty spiffy was not as powerful as I thought.

For early-to-mid game, I use a smaller, less powerful SV. For late-game, I have an SV loaded for bear when I head to lava planets. Makes surviving much easier.

what kind of ship would you recommend for being able to deal with the gravity? are yours small and lightweight?

[Tarc Novar]

Originally posted by podopo:

Originally posted by Tarc Novar:

I had problems with the high-gravity planets in the past. Made me realize quickly that my SV I thought was pretty spiffy was not as powerful as I thought.

For early-to-mid game, I use a smaller, less powerful SV. For late-game, I have an SV loaded for bear when I head to lava planets. Makes surviving much easier.

what kind of ship would you recommend for being able to deal with the gravity? are yours small and lightweight?

I tend to make them lightweight, but when I need a stronger ship, I go with my better armed and armored one that has many thrusters.

[Jamie Lee Curtis]

ah, alrighty.

[The Waffle that Lurks]

You can build very large SVs with a lot of thrusters.

About 60m/s^2 will get you off a 4Gs planet. If fuel efficiency becomes an issue just rig up your thrusters to a switch to turn most of them off when not needed and you won't blow through as much power/fuel.

[Jamie Lee Curtis]

Originally posted by dragonraider1000:

You can build very large SVs with a lot of thrusters.

About 60m/s^2 will get you off a 4Gs planet. If fuel efficiency becomes an issue just rig up your thrusters to a switch to turn most of them off when not needed and you won't blow through as much power/fuel.

I've noticed the bare minimum to slowly go up is about 40m/2. so, now I'm kinda remodeling my main sv to see what I can do using jet thrusters.

[HurtfulPlayer97]

Yea, the bare minimum is about 10m/s per G of planet gravity.

[Jamie Lee Curtis]

Originally posted by HurtfulPlayer97:

Yea, the bare minimum is about 10m/s per G of planet gravity.

That makes sense.

[The Big Brzezinski]

Assuming the gravity of the planet is given in honest Gs, you can calculate whether or not you can fly on it by multiplying that rating by 9.8 (which is Earth's gravity, or one G). If the result is lower than your up acceleration, your thrusters will push harder than gravity will pull, and you're off into the fiery red yonder.

So say you got a 4G lava planet. That means gravity wants to accelerate you to the surface at 39.3m/s^2. As long as your lifting thruster acceleration value is greater, you're golden. 60m/s^2 would be just dandy.

I have no idea of that lift acceleration value takes cargo mass into account. I recommend not finding out the hard way.

[Jamie Lee Curtis]

Originally posted by The Big Brzezinski:

Assuming the gravity of the planet is given in honest Gs, you can calculate whether or not you can fly on it by multiplying that rating by 9.8 (which is Earth's gravity, or one G). If the result is lower than your up acceleration, your thrusters will push harder than gravity will pull, and you're off into the fiery red yonder.

So say you got a 4G lava planet. That means gravity wants to accelerate you to the surface at 39.3m/s^2. As long as your lifting thruster acceleration value is greater, you're golden. 60m/s^2 would be just dandy.

I have no idea of that lift acceleration value takes cargo mass into account. I recommend not finding out the hard way.

Me neither. I'd rather just go with, armor, food and a gun or 2. XD

[Palladin888]

Originally posted by podopo:

so, do I just have to have xxl thrusters on everything to ensure that I'm able to leave lava planets?.....caaaaaauuuuuuse....the gravity here is absolutely ridiculous. I'm trying to do the polaris missions, which require me to go to a lava planet, and I dont like using cheats, for the most part, but I kinda said "♥♥♥♥ it" and used godmode to leave the planet.

LOLOLOL I think we have all made that mistake.When I did it I was in my Bastion SV. It's a great little ship for up to 1g. On a 4g planet if can not even get off the ground when totally empty.

I also crashed right in the middle of a zirax base complex and was totally obliterated ship and all in about 15 seconds. I rage quite that game and deleted it. Now I know better, so the next time I will check before going into atmo and I will have a ship capable of lifting at least 10 times what my empty ship weighs. Lat time I looked the game does not convert your ships 1g weight to 4g so it can be tricky.

Remember this thought. On a 4g planet your vessels will guzzle fuel like mad. If you go to a 4g planet take 10X the fuel you think you need.

[Jamie Lee Curtis]

Originally posted by Palladin888:

Originally posted by podopo:

so, do I just have to have xxl thrusters on everything to ensure that I'm able to leave lava planets?.....caaaaaauuuuuuse....the gravity here is absolutely ridiculous. I'm trying to do the polaris missions, which require me to go to a lava planet, and I dont like using cheats, for the most part, but I kinda said "♥♥♥♥ it" and used godmode to leave the planet.

LOLOLOL I think we have all made that mistake.When I did it I was in my Bastion SV. It's a great little ship for up to 1g. On a 4g planet if can not even get off the ground when totally empty.

I also crashed right in the middle of a zirax base complex and was totally obliterated ship and all in about 15 seconds. I rage quite that game and deleted it. Now I know better, so the next time I will check before going into atmo and I will have a ship capable of lifting at least 10 times what my empty ship weighs. Lat time I looked the game does not convert your ships 1g weight to 4g so it can be tricky.

Remember this thought. On a 4g planet your vessels will guzzle fuel like mad. If you go to a 4g planet take 10X the fuel you think you need.

Oh my god. XD I bet taking off on a normal planet is terrifying. Just zoooooom right on up. Also just wish they had curved inclined shutter windows. I like them as sort of a vent looking block.

[The Waffle that Lurks]

Originally posted by podopo:

Originally posted by Palladin888:

LOLOLOL I think we have all made that mistake.When I did it I was in my Bastion SV. It's a great little ship for up to 1g. On a 4g planet if can not even get off the ground when totally empty.

I also crashed right in the middle of a zirax base complex and was totally obliterated ship and all in about 15 seconds. I rage quite that game and deleted it. Now I know better, so the next time I will check before going into atmo and I will have a ship capable of lifting at least 10 times what my empty ship weighs. Lat time I looked the game does not convert your ships 1g weight to 4g so it can be tricky.

Remember this thought. On a 4g planet your vessels will guzzle fuel like mad. If you go to a 4g planet take 10X the fuel you think you need.

Oh my god. XD I bet taking off on a normal planet is terrifying. Just zoooooom right on up. Also just wish they had curved inclined shutter windows. I like them as sort of a vent looking block.

I have a CV with a 122m/s^2 upward thrust and just tapping space bar shoots my ship into orbit on a plant with <1G