Bought a Speed Bike

I remember an interview with JWT where he said he wanted to ride around Calypso on a bike... so you'd think he'd care?

Maybe not. If I see you in game, maybe you can demo. I was vaguely considering one (but only mildly vaguely).

 

Get a Sandrunner instead. Much, much cheaper also.

A while ago I overheard some dev talk that two-wheeled vehicles aren't easy to implement in this game because of some limitations in the physics engine. Suggestions for motorbikes or similar have been made since long, and they really tried. Possibly this is the best outcome the platform allows. What you get for your money is coolness rather than flawless function.

 

Since which version? Iirc this one is 2.0 with heavy customization by MA. Might not have existed back then or they disabled it, what do I know. I just find no logical reason to assume the designers at some planet partner are too stupid to use the tools they're given. If it doesn't work, then something's amiss with it or their parents made it verboten. Or all talk could be just politics, aren't we living in the age of fake news.

 

if two-wheeled vehicles wouldn't work, four-wheeled vehicles would have kind of 2 problems, no?

 

Quite the opposite, actually. Four wheels are inherently stable, two are not. It requires constant balancing, which is an ability well evolved in living organisms, but was hard to replicate in engineering until quite recently. I don't know much about the physics simulation in this platform or similar ones, but if it's built on real-world laws of nature, you'd need to hack the engine or disable parts if you want to get around such obstacles. Planet partners do not get access that deep into the code if I'm informed correctly. At best they have a scripting surface to work with, at worst just a set of sliders.

On the other hand, I always found it quite retarded that after all the years not even mobs are programmed to go with the angle of the terrain they're standing on, while other things are properly simulated to drop if they have less than three support points. But that's a different topic.

 

Cryengine and motorbikes....

I'm not sure if you are informed right... MA had to do significant work to make CE2 work as a persistent continuous world rather than the small map based levels it was designed for. It wasn't a case of sliders or scripting but a major programming effort.

On the issues with the avatars and landscape interaction. I don't know the details but I mentioned about the custom avatars to my friend who worked on CE3 once and he said something like "oh but then none of the animations will work".

One day I will get him to actually try Entropia. I imagine he will be fascinated, or possibly appalled, or probably both :D Either way I expect he'll be able to comment on why things are as they are or at least make a good guess.

Wistrel

 

Absolutely possible. But then the plot thickens, why would someone say such a thing who isn't just a user spurting out whatever flashes through his mind at the moment. I can't dig up the quote, was just in a chat.

Would be interesting! People who actually know are rare and that's another thing which puzzles me.