That's interesting. It's been a while since I played but I might have to fire it up and see how well that works. Nice tip.

You're aware that higher altitudes give you less fuel burn? There's also headwinds and tailwinds in the game so every now and then, blip the AR on to check winds and see if they're helping or hurting you.

That's probably exactly it. When you sell something at a location it takes a while before they're willing to buy more. (probably to keep people like me from setting up easy trade routes) I think each location is fixed on what they want to buy and sell and the supply and demand is simulated with timers. (buy something and you need to wait a certain time to buy more, sell something and you need to wait a certain time to sell more of the same) I've never seen a location that wanted a particular thing, then later on wanted something else other than the scripted stuff like food to hardmine once.

Making easy stuff complicated is pretty much all we've got to pass for gameplay while we're waiting on CIG to add some ACTUAL gameplay. Besides, it's not really about making it faster, it's about making it smoother than there you nose dive towards the ground, come to a stop in midair, rotate your ship level, then strafe down to slam your ship into the ground. You ever see them do that in a movie? Probably not since it looks stupid but is the standard landing practice in Star Citizen for a lot of players. This is only intended to smooth all of those into a single move that looks a little more professional and cinematic.

Given the pace of development I don't think they'll be making major changes to the flight model in the near future. (or even middle future. Distant future maybe if the games survives another 5 to 10 years) As for simulating atmospheric flight, I don't really see them doing that in a major way since that adds stalls and reduced control at low speed and other sim like behavior while everything else in the game seems to be dumbing down to console levels. They might make wings and control surface have effect, but most lift will always come from bottom thrusters since the entire game is built around VTOL and there's not a runway to be found anywhere.

@@the_omg3242 they almost mentioned that VTOL will be mandatory in the next update, as well as what I mentioned for the thrusters, so that the smaller aircraft would be more similar to a jet-plane. Therefore, flying close to the surface will be more interesting and seem more realistic, rather than drifting above the surface

@@the_omg3242 So when you take off, the transition from VTOL will be by moving away from the surface, moving forward and raising the front a little bit, just like the real AV-8B Harrier II can do.

Would it though? 100% stick deflection is still 100% control input so you should be able to strafe just as fast. This just gives you more precision for small control movements. That might not be an issue if you're using a full size stick for strafing, but I'm using a tiny controller size stick with my middle finger on my throttle so small strafe motions to thread between obstacles or lightly touch down when landing can be tricky. That's the main use for curves; small sticks or flying with a game controller.

Glad it was helpful. I started playing with curves because of the little analog stick on my throttle that I use for strafing up/down, left/right. Wasn't very good for fine control till I'd spent some time playing with the control curves, but works much better after some tweaking.

I picked up Stormworks on a Steam sale at one point, but haven't actually tried it yet. (too many games, not enough time) Snowrunner goes on sale all the time so maybe wait on one of those if you decide you want it. The same dev has a new game called Expeditions, but many Snowrunner players don't really like it since it plays like a subset of Snowrunner.

Saw a video where someone added a flat spin so they came in backwards and the rear hatch was facing the bunker door they were landing at.

If you were spending $1000 a month for a subscription they'd probably give you your own server and come to your house to tuck you into bed every night.

It's only random till you know what it does. It's also handy for low level flight using the strafe keys. If the indicator is on top of a hill, you'll clear the hill. If you watch some of the YT videos of people flying low and fast you'll see how it's indicating their flight path.

I've got that one on my main character and it is one of my favorites. It's surprising how close you can land to bases without them going hostile. But if I'm doing coop with more than one other person I really like the missle version of the Overseer. Can carry up to 6 and very agile if you need to dodge incoming missles.

I did that on a Nox once. Never really went too far with my Ursa though. Most ground terrain tends to be a bit rough for wheels and they're slower than I've got the patience for. Which often results in me dying on grav bikes when I hit a rock going much faster than the Ursa can manage.

The only thrusters that are active are the ones on the bottom of the ship that are normally used for hover. When you're on your glide path, (for lack of a better term) they're maintaining your rate of descent automaticly. In decoupled mode in gravity with your landing gear down the thrusters work to hold your current direction, but you're actually already throttled down even if your speed limiter is above zero. Your rear engines aren't firing except to maintain your forward speed against any wind or air resistance. When you use your spacebrake, the ships various thrusters work to slow you in every direction, (forward and down) so if you time the spacebrake so that you hit the ground slowly you'll stick to the ground since you'll no longer have any velocity for the decoupled mode to maintain. You do want to get into the habit of setting your speed limiter to zero after you land so that when you go back to coupled mode before takeoff you can smoothly accelerate, but that's more prep for your next flight than necessary to end your current flight.

I do cargo allot in the Hercules all the time. I fly dual stick in decoupled at all times (dual stick decoupled is the way to go always, if anyone says otherwise they just need to get better at flying), I get a bud on a shared account with a Hercules and they own it while I fly it and I fly it like I'm flying into a combat zone (because its fast and time is money when running cargo), I go in blazing, do a J turn with my bud ready at the ramp to run in and land straight in with one big motion, and the moment the cargo is loaded and he is on the ramp I blaze straight out. It looks cool, it feels cool, and is loads of fun.

@epicgamer42069 I have both dual sticks as well as the hotas but I can't get the hang of it yet. I only get to play games Mayne once a month at that due to my crazy work schedule and also the fact I work two jobs and about 6-7 days a week. If I had more time I would practice just so I could look badass while flying.

Thanks for the comment. Pretty much all the ships that make it to the point where I fly them started with me having at least a general idea of what I wanted it to look like. There's been tons of ships where I just started building with random parts, but those are usually the ones I'm not happy with and end up discarding the changes after playing with them in the builder for an hour. That thing can be a real time suck when you don't have a plan. lol.

It may look a bit like a glideslope, but there's no gliding in Star Citizen. If you go to 0 power on the engines you drop like a rock since there's no aerodynamic lift. Even if there was, those stubby little wings on most ships couldn't provide much lift and pretty much none of them would be placed near the center of mass. CIG doesn't make ships that could actually fly without unlimited vertical thrusters, they just try to make them look cool.

Glad you found it helpful. Can be a little scary the first time you do it in a top opening hanger when you're coming in vertical, but it's a good feeling when you pull it off. If you can get access to a ship with good downward visibility like a Reliant, or a Miria it makes it much easier.

While I got back into Elite again recently, it's been a while since I've done a video. At this point I'm just waiting on StarField. I expect to be spending a LOT of time in that.

Doing exactly the same, if Steam runs a special on ED I may grab it, I am getting better at SC. I fly DCS some, when I researched my VBK stick, SC kept getting mentioned which peaked my interest. I understand the concept but to many elevators and time wasting to get to the meat of the game.