【更新预告】空气动力系统大(xiao)革(gai)命(liang)！

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HarvesteR于前天发布了一篇公开博文（Overhauled Aerodynamics），简要描述了下一次更新所要进行改动的目标——空气动力系统——将会大致发生哪些变化

文太长懒得翻，就看看问答部分，然后总结一下

* Cargo bays and nose cones have no use.
货仓和鼻锥没有作用
This is a big one. Nose cones and cargo bays are no more than dead weight (and wasted Funds) if they offer no advantage over launching an exposed payload.
这是个大问题。鼻锥和货仓如果装上了还和裸露的负载一个效果，那么他们仅仅是白烧钱的死重。

* Streamlined designs don't fly any faster than non streamlined ones.
流线型设计完全不比非流线型设计飞得快
This is important from a gameplay POV because it's counterintuitive. If I build a javelin-shaped ship, I would expect it to cut through the air with far less resistance than a disk-shaped craft flying flat-side-first. This isn't happening with the current system, and it should be improved, if nothing else just because it makes sense that streamlined looking things should fly faster than flat-looking things.
从游戏性角度来说这确实有悖常理，是一个重要的问题。如果我设计了一个标枪样的飞船，我显然期望他划过空气时受到的阻力是要小于一坨盘子状飞行器的。但是在现在的系统中并没有出现这样的结果，所以这应该要有所改进，哪怕改进的理由仅仅是“标枪样的东西应该比一坨飞得快才符合常识”。

* Wings are inefficient, making it overly difficult to design a spaceplane that will reach orbit with a meaningful amount of payload
机翼效果太差，带一点合理范围内的负载入轨都炒鸡困难
At the moment, the lift and control surfaces are producing less lift than they ought to, which of course, affects gameplay negatively in that you need excessive wing parts or excessive speed to lift any amount of payload. This is further aggravated when climbing out of the thicker parts of the atmosphere, as the reduced air density provides even less lift there.
升翼和操纵翼提供的升力目前要比他们应该提供的要小，所以导致玩家需要堆机翼和飚速度来满足载荷要求。尤其是在用厚的组件爬升出大气层的时候，这些笨重的组件更是要求玩家堆得飞起，因为稀薄的空气提供的升力更为微弱。

* Spaceplanes are fiddly to design and build
造飞机炒鸡麻烦
This doesn't concern the realism of the simulation so much as it does the UI around building spaceplanes. At the moment, there isn't enough information displayed to help players intuitively build aircraft that will fly properly and be controllable.
这和模拟是否真实无关，基本上是由于建造飞机时的UI导致的问题。目前我们的UI没有给玩家提供足够的信息，导致玩家建造飞机时很难直观地造出能飞且易于操控的飞机。

之后HarvesteR主要介绍了玩家应该在下一次更新中期待什么，不应该期待什么。总而言之，下次更新的改进的空气动力系统的目标是最低限度的改进。
具体来说，dev计划改进的方便只有3个：

• 升力系统，让升力确实地与速度平方正比，让高速飞机在稀薄空气中的性能更好
• 阻力系统，让鼻锥和货仓不再是死重，让流线型的飞起来要比一坨铁快
• 降低飞机建造难度（通过改善UI提供的信息），让玩家能够更直观、直觉地建造出能飞、飞得好的飞机
  

HarvesteR认为，空气动力学的真实度和有趣度是天平的两端，所以dev打算以最低限度的真实化对目前的系统进行改良，而不会做出非常拟真的空气动力系统——就像内置FAR/NEAR那样

所以期待内置FAR/NEAR的可以洗洗睡了~

*p.s. 个人觉得既然已经有FAR之流的mod了，dev用最小工作量保证游戏性也无可厚非，顺手建个投票，看看大家的想法

siemens33

如果流线型只是比一坨铁快，而不是一坨铁现在飞不了了，还可以接受。

zijqe

降低飞机建造难度这个不错，简单些还是好，娱乐嘛

dogking18

估计是在飞机厂里面加入很多UI显示飞行中的状态吧。