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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 7291319" data-attributes="member: 12731">Exactly. "Do any of these have realistic spaceship movement?" I guess it's natural to ask for this, but if there ever was a holy graal of rpg design* this would be it.Most of us don't know what we're asking for, and if we did know, we would no longer want it.*) in the sense that a true graal is unattainable; that is, the quest for the Holy Grail seen as a quest for an unachievable mystical union with GodFrom the Wikipedia page:"The consequences of the rules of orbital mechanics are sometimes counter-intuitive. For example, if two spacecraft are in the same circular orbit and wish to dock, unless they are very close, the trailing craft cannot simply fire its engines to go faster. This will change the shape of its orbit, causing it to gain altitude and actually slow down relative to the leading craft, missing the target."That's worth saying twice: if you go faster, you will actually go slower. (Relative to another target in orbit)Nobody wants that. Not even if they say they want it.Reminds me of the movie Gravity, and the "scientific inaccuracies" reported for it. Oh how many very many people that only managed to reveal their lack of knowledge back then...</blockquote>