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progvalyesterday at 11:55 AM3 repliesview on HN

It's still pretty far physically accurate because there is infinite acceleration the moment a ship reaches the target orbit.


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robryantoday at 1:24 AM

Yeah, I want to enter weird orbits around the planets.

pigpopyesterday at 3:05 PM

That sounds like it would be a completely different game and probably not as fun since you'd have to use some very fiddly controls to manually get into orbit. If you eliminate orbit entirely then it's just a slalom race. "Hitting" each star/planet is the immediate feedback that makes it fun.

oeziyesterday at 11:59 AM

True. Hard to square it being a game, fast-spaced and accurate.