I vaguely recall they went to great efforts to develop a proper flight model for the ships, realised that combat was just flying past other ships at speed and none of the ships were very flyable because the models were developed without thinking how they would move, and so they stuck a bunch of thrusters on everything to make it like a bad imitation of WW2 dogfighting
I vaguely recall they went to great efforts to develop a proper flight model for the ships, realised that combat was just flying past other ships at speed and none of the ships were very flyable because the models were developed without thinking how they would move, and so they stuck a bunch of thrusters on everything to make it like a bad imitation of WW2 dogfighting
That is true, yes. The developers (that are not the Roberts family and their immediate cronies) did their best with what they had to work with but the aging gamedad playerbase found the “FIDELITY™” that they demanded to be unacceptable in the spaceship combat, so it was removed by popular demand and now the FIDELITY™ is about bedsheet wrinkles.
I vaguely recall they went to great efforts to develop a proper flight model for the ships, realised that combat was just flying past other ships at speed and none of the ships were very flyable because the models were developed without thinking how they would move, and so they stuck a bunch of thrusters on everything to make it like a bad imitation of WW2 dogfighting
That is true, yes. The developers (that are not the Roberts family and their immediate cronies) did their best with what they had to work with but the aging gamedad playerbase found the “FIDELITY™” that they demanded to be unacceptable in the spaceship combat, so it was removed by popular demand and now the FIDELITY™ is about bedsheet wrinkles.