Ground vehicles

[PoisonKitchen 1]

Do you know if you can make ground vehicles is DU?  All I have seen in the videos are hovercraft type vehicles. They would be cool but I think a dune buggy/rover type creation would be fun to buzz around a planet in.

 

Thanks in advance,

PK

[Haunty 408]

No wheeled vehicles. Hovercraft will be the ground vehicles. Wheeled vehicles could be possible in a later expansion after release.

[Xenoform101 36]

So far I've only heard about the hovercraft you've mentioned. But i do agree that wheeled/tracked vehicle would be cool to have as well.

[Lenux 6]

There is manykind of hovercraft don't worry , you will have a lot of possibilites

[ATMLVE 634]

The reason wheels are not on the near horizon is because of server stress. The constant physics of bouncing and conformity with the ground of a vehicle would be a lot to handle.

 

Imagine someone making a platform with 1000 wheels, running over some rocky terrain. It would be a huge amount of unnecessary physics calculations.

[Miamato 58]

On 9/14/2017 at 5:02 PM, ATMLVE said:

Imagine someone making a platform with 1000 wheels, running over some rocky terrain. It would be a huge amount of unnecessary physics calculations.

Probably wheeled vehicles shouldn't be too big and at least in early versions. 

[Ravenskysong 32]

considering how much trouble I've head with wheeled vehicles in scifi games I am in no hurry to have them in another game. 

[0something0 98]

How about wheels that are hoverpads that look like wheels?

[Lethys 2477]

1 hour ago, 0something0 said:

How about wheels that are hoverpads that look like wheels?

How about.....just hoverpads? No need to put work in this imho. No revenue, no use, not necessary

[Sparktacus 16]

Yeah, solution there is hoverpads, with round voxel "wheels" hiding them.

 

Did someting similar in empyrion to make an E:D rover

[unown006 19]

What about track verticals? or thread tanks?

[CoreVamore 316]

28 minutes ago, unown006 said:

What about track verticals? or thread tanks?

Thats still ground contact which is heavy on the servers and unlikely to be included any time soon, if ever.

[GunDeva 55]

Wheels , rotors , treads or some of the worst things to have in a voxel type of game it has caused nothing but bugs and server problems not to mention in a sci-fi futuristic game would they really still be using things like wheels , treads , and rotors in a advance future setting ?

I personally would expect to see more anti-gravity and hover jet type technologies being used.

[NanoDot 363]

9 hours ago, GunDeva said:

Wheels , rotors , treads or some of the worst things to have in a voxel type of game it has caused nothing but bugs and server problems not to mention in a sci-fi futuristic game would they really still be using things like wheels , treads , and rotors in a advance future setting ?

I personally would expect to see more anti-gravity and hover jet type technologies being used.

It all depends on economics, really.

 

In RL, nobody uses expensive solutions if there are cheaper ones available, even if the cheaper ones are "not quite as good". The tech that yields the best ROI is always the most widely used (outside of military applications, of course).

 

We had supersonic passenger planes decades ago (Concorde), but we have no commercial supersonic planes anymore, because they are currently uneconomical.

 

Let's face it, we basically have the capability to colonise Mars right now, and we would if there was obvious profit to be made...

[unown006 19]

16 hours ago, GunDeva said:

Wheels , rotors , treads or some of the worst things to have in a voxel type of game it has caused nothing but bugs and server problems not to mention in a sci-fi futuristic game would they really still be using things like wheels , treads , and rotors in a advance future setting ?

I personally would expect to see more anti-gravity and hover jet type technologies being used.

True A friend asked me about it So now I can give a anwser

18 hours ago, CoreVamore said:

Thats still ground contact which is heavy on the servers and unlikely to be included any time soon, if ever.

Just a thought 

[iroker 1]

One of the positive aspects of a ground wheeled vehicle is that needs less energy to move. But if the possible server overload is prohibitive because of the extensive physics calculations i could live without. But an answer from the devteam could enlighten us in this regard.

[Nanoman 481]

21 minutes ago, iroker said:

an answer from the devteam could enlighten us in this regard.

https://dualuniverse.gamepedia.com/Archive:Kickstarter_AMA_Video#Vehicle_Mechanics

[iroker 1]

Just now, Nanoman said:

https://dualuniverse.gamepedia.com/Archive:Kickstarter_AMA_Video#Vehicle_Mechanics

I know that, the question was if this is a software/server limitation or not.

[CoreVamore 316]

21 hours ago, iroker said:

I know that, the question was if this is a software/server limitation or not.

Its not a limitation, it is however a massive server performance hit NQ doesnt want to deal with as they have more important things to handle 

[Miamato 58]

It's better to let NQ implement common space crafts and finish solid mechanics for them and then add more stuff as increment, rather than try to do everything at once. There is no point in adding more content that doesn't work fine and causes issues. 

[Elobomg 1]

I think tha track are a good Idea but unfotunately It won't be implemented, just for the physics calculations that are required and that will lag out the server.  The hoverpads are also a very nice option fro ground vehicles since there is a lot of things to do with them.

[Blitzer 1]

On 3/9/2018 at 11:06 AM, Sparktacus said:

Yeah, solution there is hoverpads, with round voxel "wheels" hiding them.

 

Did someting similar in empyrion to make an E:D rover

Maybe you can personally do that but the devs are gonna make hover pads, just hover pads

[0something0 98]

I mean, gravity is just acceleration so antigravity is simply accelerating the other way. So just pump more power into the antigrav generators and suddenly rockets are obsolete!

[Thokan 34]

Personally I would deem wheels pretty theme/immersion-breaking anyways. It's supposed to be the future, not a probe-landing-on-mars-aesthetic.

 

Hover, and only hover, will give a nice, cool sci-fi feel to the ground as well.