Day 26 of what's now Elitecember !
Hope you all had a great Xmas and are heading into a food coma Boxing Day.
What's the theme for today ? It's life support today.
Hopefully you all had sufficient cake yesterday. Perhaps too much :-D.
The ships in Elite are set up a bit curiously when it comes to life support ... and a lot of that is down to gameplay mechanics. Your commander flies the ship wearing a flight suit ... but the air they breathe is ship air. Suffer enough damage to the canopy and the glass screen separating you from the outside will blow out and then you're down to what remains in the emergency supply to get home. And that's better or worse depending on how much cash (and weight) went into the life support system.
I don't think I actually have a shot with the canopy blown out (It's not something you want to do too often). As well as the air, you lose the external Head Up Display references too, as the system attempts to project them on to glass that isn't there any more. This can be a problem ... Although not as big a problem as it could be as there are other references you can use.
Add that to the limited amount of time left to get to safety and it's nervy times. It's not like you can get out and push when you're in a spaceship :-).
Anyway, that's it for me for this Boxing Day (erm - actually writing this on the 23rd!). May add more later.
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