Stable Orbit - Perihelion Update

[@marcuswoolley3424]

What we need is a strong and stable orbit.

[@sequorroxx]

The quaalude/hans zimmer music really ties the video together.

[@JimmyStiffFingers]

Yeah, the music​ is fucking beautiful.

[@avivfrai4858]

sequorroxx game maker is musician and composer, probably self composed, I.e. Until the dev decides we can get the music, you can't find it on the internet (unless you pull it from the game files).

[@JimmyStiffFingers]

Aviv Frai I just wanted to say that. :P The guy is also a musician.

[@BigHappysPlace]

For the speed of the orbit Vs the day night cycle. seems the sun is moving around the planet and not the other way around. Craft moves very little over the planet but there are like 30 day night cycles. Should be the other way around. the object moves along faster than the day night cycles.

[@lokegustafsson247]

Bighappy If the orbit were almost geostationary earth would indeed move much less than the sun from the spacecrafts point of view. However I have no idea if the orbit here were geostationary or not.

[@chaoz1666]

it wasn't , the earth would be way smaller at geostationary orbit

[@toadthefungus6650]

ptolemy approves of this update

[@stan.rarick8556]

@@lokegustafsson247 The ISS orbital period is approximately 90 minutes which would yield 16 orbits per day/night cycle

[@bratwurst_addict]

I agree with the other commentators. The day/night cycle is wacky. They should focus on the earth having a natural circle. And as far as the earth goes, afair nasa was going to upload daily pictures. And as far as clouds go, Desktop Earth does mostly a good job of capturing it (it is more or less live). Don't know how they do it, but if it was a bit more detailed that might work great.

[@bratwurst_addict]

I have to correct myself. The day/night cycle is completely off. While you barely moved 3,000 miles the day/night cycle happened 3 times or what? That's not what I want to see. It's like you move 20mph..

[@maxellp]

what am i missing? isn't the game sped up?

[@comicbstudios]

It is but the sun shouldnt move relative to the stars in 1 day,

[@win5128]

If you read the dev's roadmap, that will later be part of the update, and you can also adjust your orbit as well. Just not in this update

[@androkon6920]

I like learning new things on your episodes (or at least hearing you mention them).

[@SpiralEvolution]

The background music of the game made it sound like a motivational video. I was waiting for a profound and deep thought phrase come out at some point... :D

[@muksotus]

Three minutes without oxygen. Three days without water. Three weeks without food. Three seconds without internet.

[@avivfrai4858]

tru dat.

[@garrettnelson2293]

muksotus LOL.

[@avivfrai4858]

Garrett Nelson but it's true.

[@garrettnelson2293]

Aviv Frai I know right. Too bad my internet is rather crappy. Gotta call the old Century Link. UGH

[@avivfrai4858]

Garrett Nelson use your phone's internet

[@codecrystak8716]

Ideas: Pick your Orbit in the Beginning It would define the type of space station you could build and which country you would service more - Space Tourism and Crew Recreation,Morale - Needing to EVA To Repair Certain Modules

[@kangarutan1915]

Something I don't know if you noticed, but you can upgrade all of the resources nodes too. So instead of buying a whole new set of batteries you can upgrade your old batteries to add up to two more. Helps you keep space for more expansions.

[@metcas]

The day/night cycle neeeeeeds to be fixed lol

[@emm4rmstrong]

Scott that was the Mandeb Strait, which connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden. You were over Arabia moving towards Somalia. Also from the game's website, disasters are next on the road-map, as well as orbital maintenance and adjustment.

[@RealStevenSaturday]

I think it would be cool to have them launch the new modules up to you. maybe slow the game down a but and give it some sense of realism.

[@JimmyStiffFingers]

Every space junky ever: "Needs moar realisms." Not saying I don't agree, though. xD

[@RealStevenSaturday]

JimmyStiffFingers I just want more of a balance between the arcade aspect and the realism. Just more visual stuff going on. That's the big thing.

[@JimmyStiffFingers]

I agree. It makes a game like this more immersive. Immersion is always a good thing to have in a game.

[@keyonhutson1539]

There was a game like that a while back, Space Station Sim. It included launches for supplies, modules, and crew all with a nice little graphic (for 2005 at least). I'd say it balanced the arcade and realism pretty well, sunk hours into it as a kid.

[@Ulaid]

Keyon Hutson Still have that on disc, can't play it anymore though :/

[@TheArklyte]

Scott, why don't you use a single strut and just extend it to put all support modules on it while while extending habitable modules in the opposite direction and around the starting module(which should be partially left clear at least from the bottom to save shuttle pilot's nerves)?

[@RedsBoneStuff]

Before you comment: The day/night cycle is unrealistic to prevent people from getting epilepsy. As you may have noticed, time is sped up to a reasonable gameplay speed. If they kept the real day/night cycle, the sun would rise 100 times every second.

[@Nojaru]

RedsBoneStuff the speed of the sun isn't the issue, it's the stars and planet not rotating with it.

[@digitalbios]

How is it that the station keeps its belly toward Earth throughout the entire orbit?

[@scottmanley]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bXvWZqtqg82Irrc

[@digitalbios]

Scott Manley thx for that. I understand the processes at work now.

[@digitalbios]

Nomulus Norwegicus I had asked the how of the situation. The why of it all is easily understood.

[@DuffliousTharalom]

Love you too, Scott.

[@Pretender6]

@Scott Manley, Did you read Jumper Exo yet?

[@joman2334]

What Is your Favoriten Part of the Game? I really like the fact that you can build what you like.

[@avivfrai4858]

The music though... IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL!! *SNIFF*

[@avivfrai4858]

I searched the internet for 15 minutes, found out the sole developer is also a musician, and that there is no music from the game anywhere... now I'm sad I can't listen to this on my free time... 😢

[@isimanica1]

I think I will get this game for sure now.

[@olmen375]

What the eff is up with that day-night cycle :P ?

[@spacekraken666]

Sun is rotating around the earth. Scientists lied to us!

[@techstepman]

hmmm the radiators seem not to be able to keep up if the station becomes too big...guess that's a limitation on the size...it looks too freaky with dozens of radiators on...

[@stan.rarick8556]

The day/night sequencing is disturbing as the ratio of orbits/day is the inverse from which is shown, specifically approximately 16 orbits per 24 hours.

[@Barmagloth]

Randomness aka disasters and emergencies will be in next update. According to the official announcement: "The update after Perihelion will be called ‘Blackout’ and will include both Orbital Management and Disasters & Events. Following that will be ‘Umbilical’, adding Advanced Truss Structures and Pressurized Mechanics features. Finally, ‘Zenith’ will add the remaining features from the game’s roadmap, ultimately leading to the game becoming the official 1.0 release."

[@jamesrussell7760]

Hey Scott, how about asking the developer for modules you can use to build a big, rotating torus station like in "2001: A Space Odyssey"? You know, like being a 21st century Arthur C Clarke?

[@tom_something]

Is... is the Sun orbiting Earth in this game? It seems to go screaming across the cosmos shockingly often. Usually I think it takes a year for the Sun to do that (or rather, to _appear_ to do that as we take a full lap around the Sun), and here it does it several times in the space of a single orbit. My first thought was that it's taking several days for us to orbit the planet, which is already strange. But in fact it seems to be taking several years.

[@Nero77]

love your vids

[@piteoswaldo]

The year in this planet is freaking fast! Earth is apparently fixed in respect to distant stars, while the sun is frenetically spinning around.

[@AlexIr99]

Hey Scott, do you still play Eve? If yes, will you ever make more videos on it? I loved your tutorials, and I think I would love a series on it!

[@vonneely1977]

But why do we need to add foot?

[@LeMeBucallion]

The one thing that puts me off is that you can build and expand in matter of hours. It would be great if you had to calculate your supplies weeks ahead, here you click and magically all those parts appear . Maybe they can also add some visits and help from temporary crew?

[@TheBussaca]

why haven't they put an telescope observatory on the ISS?

[@RoninFoxSpeaks]

They ought to call this Geo-centrist Space Program

[@asd1234asd1234asd]

I think they need to focus more on optimisation and the antialiasing of the text when zoomed out.

[@tapankamath]

motion over the ocean oh I'm a poet and I didn't know it nice rhymes Scott👍

[@karthie003]

Wow! Hey Scott!

[@deanspanos8210]

I heard the last part and for a moment I was afraid Scott was going to announce his retirement.

[@mickstephenson]

I believe you were travelling above the Red Sea rather than the Persian Gulf, and those straits would be the Bab al-Mandab Straits

[@tedcameron9438]

I think they should add the part where you get the contracts on the floor and have to build and fly ship with payload to get up there in the first place. Hopefully it will become a "real life" version of Kerbal

[@WebertHest]

Not really related, but the channel and commenters might know: I got an itch to play an early extraterrestrial phase game. Something in which you start off with semi present day tech, and the end of the game is colonzing Pluto or something. I know of KSP, obviously, and Aurora, but the first is not a 4x, and the latter is obtuse.

[@johiahdoesstuff1614]

Hey Scott! Has the latest EVE war got you playing again?

[@hi117bye]

maybe add docking and fuel for other space programs, gain money from renting out your station to other space programs?

[@JCU32768]

Launch planner will be good. Planning a cargo planning per launch, more food or a new module or replacement parts. Randomly delayed launches or even crashes with money and cargo loss. A time is needed to build module on surface, then plan to launch, and launch may be delayed or (rarely) crashed after all. Space ships that can and can't return something to surface, manned and pure automatic, crew illness and spare landing pod docked to station for that case. Crew time planner with sleep, work, daily sport and medical selfcare hours. Time planning adjustment must be needed in case of emergency, illness or after a hard work. Module maintennence and failures. Periodical orbit adjustments and onboard fuel.

[@doorhanger9317]

This might not be very popular, but it's 2034, right? Why not add space pirates, companies who are looking to take over your space station in the international waters of space. This would mean you would have to build defenses and add a whole new dimension to the game. Maybe it should be a mode not enabled by default, but it would certainly be more interesting

[@moffjendob6796]

The music is very Mass Effect 3.

[@muadeeb]

There is a public roadmap and the next update will include disasters as well as needing you to at least consider how to stay in orbit. Weather is coming in the full release. the other new thing in this release is collision detection. No longer can you have two habs taking up the same space. stableorbit.codalyn.com/#roadmap My wish list at this point is filtering in the science menu, and allowing the scroll wheel to actually scroll in the windows.

[@nibjib09]

This sorely needs a Xenomorph mod.

[@AWZool]

Am I the only one bothered by the shuttles arriving from and departing towards the radial vector, and not pro-/retrograde?

[@andersbennedsgaard4673]

I feel like this gets really boring at some point, so i agree that some randomness might be one solution to this problem. Though, i also think it would be awesome to have the possibility to manage several more stations later in the game, perhaps around other planets or at other inclinations, at the least to get a change of scenery. Also, it could be awesome to manage a base on another planet, at some point.

[@MythicFrost]

Real emergency hmm... Like dodging space junk or maybe fire aboard?

[@aquianse6765]

#notificationsquad !!!! loving the video already scott!

[@hobanagerik]

Inter sting concept which would have been amazing if you were in first person and had to be air for the ordered systems to arrive by shuttle and you had to EVA to fit them. Hellion is the closest to this idea I think.

[@michaelt3172]

Can you start playing your games in 1440p or 4k because sandbox games like this and ksp look so much better at high res

[@cgerman5]

Straits of Hormuz are between Iran and the UAE/Oman

[@SpaceSim1]

finally an update!

[@lordmunchkin281]

its got potential

[@somerandomperson7994]

5:57 Djibouti 🇩🇯 and Yemen 🇾🇪

[@Stelum1000]

Will you play stellaris again with the new DLC? Hugs and Kisses, Some random guy who enjoys space content :p

[@scottmanley]

Been playing Stellaris since Utopia dropped, struggling to make a video encapsulating everything I want to talk about. Looking forward to Adams update tomorrow.

[@Stelum1000]

Coolio, many thanks :)

[@DoRC]

What does the goo think of all of this?

[@davehendricks7023]

Crossing the t's and dotting all the lower case j's

[@NegatorUK]

Scott wants more random occurrences and crises..... so, make it more like Tharsis then ho ho...

[@tonyr.5652]

waiting for next galileo episode 😀

[@scottmanley]

Getting crushed by family commitments.

[@tonyr.5652]

wow, I'm honoured, ksp god in person wow...

[@lordadmiralhood1843]

The game looks cool, what's the cost?

[@ThatGuy-nv2wo]

What is google?

[@jesseknoblauch1597]

U.K Ball idk let me google it

[@robert-andreiionita2827]

[1:31] 3 minutes without oxygen 3 hours without shelter (in the wild, but is not always just 3 hours...) 3 days without water 3-4 weeks without food

[@best_beans1732]

2:25 boom

[@kwarsha]

That wasn't the strait of Hormuz (between Iran and the arab peninsula), it was the strait of Mandeb (between Yemen and Djibouti). Someone had to be that guy.

[@Nechs]

I would've been the guy if you hadn't been faster than me ;). I will confess though that while I did recognize the Red Sea I wasn't sure about the countries, my guess would've been Ethiopia and Saudi Arabia, I was very wrong (Ethiopia actually doesn't even have sea access) Peace

[@emmettraymond8058]

They should have sent a poet. Or at least a poet who knew it. :P

[@celivalg]

After the 333 rule i think its death, not no sequels

[@Ghost-ct3to]

EVE online had an update ;P

[@saczhnalaparan4877]

scott manley go back to ksp and livestream. show more new custom space craft space center mission to other planet refuel and more. also do that space station in kerbal. that space station in video please. im your no. 1 fun in ksp from Philippines

[@neonsaint408]

sun from space looks white not yellow

[@superhawk8921]

yay

[@technocracy90]

When the hell would they implement a proper revolution of the planet earth?!

[@scottmanley]

Because it would turn to a strobe effect.

[@technocracy90]

But that's what they have to handle with.

[@andrewh6188]

윤형석 Then you lock out anybody who is epileptic and some people with specific issues with their eyes. Not everything can be realistic in a game when it hurts people.

[@technocracy90]

Andrew Hannus​ Hey, as viewers of epic Scott Manley, we know how space games should look. I played KSP Realism Overhaul a lot with full of eyecandy mods, which looks almost like this, has real-speed spinning Earth. I saw tons of KZbins doing so. Nothing was problematic.

[@andrewh6188]

+윤형석 The difference here is that's a mod that does that, which are optional, but the base game is different because you can't chose whether or not to have a strobe effect. The workaround to that is to have an option, that is also defaulted off, so normal people that go into the game at least have a warning before they turn it on. Not everyone wants a strobe, and some people can't take it.

[@bottlekruiser]

Can you build a strut to reach the atmosphere? Totally legit idea

[@mikkrooden4419]

holy crap 3 seconds 15 views

[@dibo244]

hey scott manley first of all if your reading this have a nice day second could you please look at two games planetbase and Osiris new dawn like if you agree.

[@mh1ultramarine]

but no potatoes

[@TheLargeHardonCollider]

Besides the _highly disorienting_ geocentric universe, the most disappointing part about this game for me is the title. 'Stable Orbit' to me implies there must be the possibility of unstable orbits, meaning some n-body physics. The update is called 'Perihelion', again implying to me that there must be some kind of orbit changes in this game. All these labels set me up to be disappointed. Normally I'd say something about "KSP has spoiled us" here, but this ticks me off more because these are awesome titles that could be used in future games, and instead they seem like science-y space words chosen for the cool factor, and to imply more depth than the content actually contains like a B-side, straight-to-dvd Syfy tv-series.

[@Baleur]

The graphics are just too awful for a game that only renders a single sphere, with a moderately detailed space station in the frame. I dont want to look at that for 10 hours. This aint just about snobby eyecandy, this is about not wanting to play a game that does such a disrespectful job of not showing the true beauty and splendor of our planet / space. I'd rather just watch a nasa ISS livestream without any "gameplay".

[@DDOGYT]

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[@Sifestia]

looks like another unity scrap game