[Spaceships] Calculating Climb Rate

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by Anthony

Raw climb rate isn't that relevant there -- the way you make a suborbital hop is by turning, and you don't actually need any thrust to make the hop (though you have to have somehow reached sufficient velocity, which requires thrust unless you're skipping as part of atmospheric skimming or re-entry).

I need to get past the point of atmosphere being trace to be able to freely accelerate past maximum airspeed (also to engage any drives that don't function in atmo, if such are to be invented in the setting within observable future).