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user43095
12:01 AM
@Arperum My guess is that your drill thingy would fall into the planet's core and be destroyed. And you'd make a really cool volcano in the process. At least, I think that's what would happen if it was Earth.
 
@JeffreyLin Yea, but do planets have a core in that game?
 
user43095
@Arperum If not, since pressure increases as you go towards the center of a planet, your drill would destroy itself. In fact, this would actually happen before you reach the core.
 
@JeffreyLin Does it? I don't know how things work in that game.
 
user43095
Don't think anyone other than the developers know.
 
12:22 AM
@JeffreyLin Yes. That's why we need science.
 
Hello :P
 
user43095
12:42 AM
@deprilula_28 Hi
 
3:37 AM
@Arperum You technically can't
The planets are coded in some weird way that basically causes it to start lagging as you drill into it further and further
They explained in a presentation or something that while technically there should be gravitational changes as you get closer to the core, no-one would be able to get there because the RAM and CPU usage would be too much before you even get close
i.e. it saves the planet as a static object, then keeps a log of the changes and loads those on top of that
 
 
5 hours later…
8:12 AM
@JeffreyLin the planets are actually tiny, they're about 100 times smaller than the earth. If they actually modeled gravity properly, and assuming I can still do math and physics, your apparent weight at the surface of a planet in Space Engineers would be 1 microgram, if you weigh 220 pounds on earth.
 
8:39 AM
@Ieuan :( Booooh
 
@Arperum that's quite disappointing, though understandable I suppose
 
@JeffreyLin pressure won't increase if you have an outlet, like the hole you drilled =p
 
@Jochem I don't know how I wanted them to do it, but I know they could expect players to want to mine an entire planet.
 
You'll make a very fancy volcano as mentioned before :)
@Arperum make a sparse octree structure of the changes, or heck, of the entire thing. Not super difficult
 

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