Ownez wrote:Duh, it was just a thought anyway, it wont affect gameplay in any way. I would still like to see it as a feature you can enable or not

That is actually a great idea. Have a radio button that allows you to enable different physics concepts that only effect visuals. Good spot Ownez i hope someone is listening!

Thanks Naxtor

I think it's very possible it'll make it in. Most of the game can be customized - Mr. Parnell thinks of everything. The amount of customization is extensive enough that it can almost be thought of as modding.

I for one am a huge fan of the fluid medium universe. I mean, theoretically, in infinite universes, there has to be at least an infinite number of parallel universes that are full of "stuff" instead of void. Right?

I actually hope that Josh plays with it some in the game lore. Perhaps wormholes are explained as being whirlpools in the Aether, or the intra-system highways, we saw in the early dev videos are massive naturally occurring currents in the infinite ocean of space! Space kraken anyone?

So, What happens if you go too fast within a fluidic medium? Friction with the fluid heats your craft beyond the tolerances of any metal, plastic, glass, what have you; and after a time, your ship explodes in a plum of molten slag and debris!

I would love to see this fluid universe really come to life in ways such as tearing the wings of fighters if they push it too hard and try to pull too many g's! Or capital ships actually shaking apart from traveling too fast for too long (represented for gameplay purposes as slow degrade of systems, hull integrity?).

Perhaps this Aether can silence the qualms some seem to have with shock waves in space

The Spelljammer universe works about like that.

HoratioScumdog wrote:I for one am a huge fan of the fluid medium universe. I mean, theoretically, in infinite universes, there has to be at least an infinite number of parallel universes that are full of "stuff" instead of void. Right?

Yeah but Species 8472 killed everything else in it, didn't they?

Rather than imagine space as being fluidic, I would rather just imagine that spaceships use a propulsion technology that makes them act as if they're moving through fluid (with justification for why they favour such technology over conventional thrusters, ofc.).

HoratioScumdog wrote:Perhaps this Aether can silence the qualms some seem to have with shock waves in space

Are there going to be any shockwaves in LT?

ThymineC wrote:

HoratioScumdog wrote:I for one am a huge fan of the fluid medium universe. I mean, theoretically, in infinite universes, there has to be at least an infinite number of parallel universes that are full of "stuff" instead of void. Right?

Yeah but Species 8472 killed everything else in it, didn't they?

Rather than imagine space as being fluidic, I would rather just imagine that spaceships use a propulsion technology that makes them act as if they're moving through fluid (with justification for why they favour such technology over conventional thrusters, ofc.).

Hey I like this too

HoratioScumdog wrote:Perhaps this Aether can silence the qualms some seem to have with shock waves in space

Are there going to be any shockwaves in LT?

JoshParnell wrote:Missiles (will) have a blast radius. They are the only weapon planned to have that effect (mines would also be considered, but mines are not slated as a release feature).

(And keep in mind that torpedoes & missiles are unified from the game's perspective)

Granted, the usefulness of AOE at these scales is a different question. But it will exist

Judging from this I would say to some extent yes. Now I just need to convince josh of proximity fuses for Battleship guns

HoratioScumdog wrote:Judging from this I would say to some extent yes. Now I just need to convince josh of proximity fuses for Battleship guns

Just because missiles do AOE damage does not mean they have a shockwave. It could be a burst of radiation or shrapnel or possibly even something more futuristic that that.

ThymineC wrote:

HoratioScumdog wrote:Judging from this I would say to some extent yes. Now I just need to convince josh of proximity fuses for Battleship guns

Just because missiles do AOE damage does not mean they have a shockwave. It could be a burst of radiation or shrapnel or possibly even something more futuristic that that.

Sure, that works too

ThymineC wrote:Just because missiles do AOE damage does not mean they have a shockwave. It could be a burst of radiation or shrapnel or possibly even something more futuristic that that.

However, if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, but you call it something else, people are still going to associate it as a shockwave.

I don't see any point of saying "Oh, that thing you see? It's shrapnel, not a shockwave" will just get into arguments of semantics.

A shockwave is just a lot of really really small molecules of shrapnel. =P

Gazz wrote:A shockwave is just a lot of really really small molecules of shrapnel. =P

Mind blown.

ThymineC wrote:

Gazz wrote:A shockwave is just a lot of really really small molecules of shrapnel. =P

Mind blown.

With a shockwave, at that!

DWMagus wrote:With a shockwave, at that!

Yeah that was part of the joke.

Naxtor wrote:That is actually a great idea. Have a radio button that allows you to enable different physics concepts that only effect visuals. Good spot Ownez i hope someone is listening!

It would probably be better to be able to have that be available as a modding option, rather than in-built into the game.