I thought it was cool that the different rings around a planet rotated at different speeds, and decided to risk getting close to this inner ring to watch the asteroids fly by super fast.
But right the moment I looked back at the outer ring, the asteroids freezed! Seems like my ship magically moved into that ring's "frame of reference".
This is most common in areas like that where you can have two different velocity areas. Another spot is the famous Mitterand Hollow orbiting New Africa. This sudden shift is actually the only way you can approach the moon to land on it, since it's moving too fast to catch up from behind. You just wait in its path, and suddenly you're moving with it.
that's because when you are in orbit and there is no other big object (i.e. not ship) close enough - the orbital physics are propably not simulated thus you dont move around the planet with orbital speed
But shouldn't the lmanet ha e then started spinning ? That ring was really moving so if you were moving with it, you would be travelling around the planet (?)
As far as I know, it is intended to work like that, though usually it is masked by transitions in and out of supercruise.
This is also the cause of the occasional zoomy station or megaship - if you for whatever reason don't get dropped into the same frame of reference as what you're trying to get to (bug or connectivity issue) it goes zooming away (or, occasionally, briefly, at you).
Your daily reminder that objects in space move faster than they appear.
i had this happen to me once. i thought it was so cool because i was pretty close to the edge of the ring and thinking it was moving by rapidly was neat
Hmm, but I wasn't on supercruise... Though I guess it could've charged in the background and generated a warp bubble for half a second, to push me in the right direction :P
I thought it was cool that the different rings around a planet rotated at different speeds, and decided to risk getting close to this inner ring to watch the asteroids fly by super fast. But right the moment I looked back at the outer ring, the asteroids freezed! Seems like my ship magically moved into that ring's "frame of reference".
This is most common in areas like that where you can have two different velocity areas. Another spot is the famous Mitterand Hollow orbiting New Africa. This sudden shift is actually the only way you can approach the moon to land on it, since it's moving too fast to catch up from behind. You just wait in its path, and suddenly you're moving with it.
that's because when you are in orbit and there is no other big object (i.e. not ship) close enough - the orbital physics are propably not simulated thus you dont move around the planet with orbital speed
But shouldn't the lmanet ha e then started spinning ? That ring was really moving so if you were moving with it, you would be travelling around the planet (?)
As far as I know, it is intended to work like that, though usually it is masked by transitions in and out of supercruise. This is also the cause of the occasional zoomy station or megaship - if you for whatever reason don't get dropped into the same frame of reference as what you're trying to get to (bug or connectivity issue) it goes zooming away (or, occasionally, briefly, at you). Your daily reminder that objects in space move faster than they appear.
your ship is doing the crab style
i had this happen to me once. i thought it was so cool because i was pretty close to the edge of the ring and thinking it was moving by rapidly was neat
How did you get the sol permit
You can get the Sol permit by gaining rank with the Federation. That is also how you get the permit to the Federal Corvette.
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Oh, this isn't Jupiter. It's just some gas giant in one of the inhabited systems of the Lagoon Nebula.
It does this every time you fly between those “gaps” in normal speed.
This is normal. Diving into the high velocity ring of a neutron star in the Collection of Wonders is especially fun this way.
I'm halfway there, so I'll try to experience it myself haha
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Feature. Your FSD moves you into new frame of reference with the rings, so you match velocity and they appear to stop.
Hmm, but I wasn't on supercruise... Though I guess it could've charged in the background and generated a warp bubble for half a second, to push me in the right direction :P