Atmospheric Drag

As has been stated already, atmopheric physics won't be coming to the game at least in its early stages, which I fully understand because it can make things quite complicated for the player.

So here is my proposal for a simplified form of atmospheric drag:

I'm imagining, depending on how the craft is built, drag will oppose a force, which gets stronger the more speed you gain, thus limiting the maximum speed you can go with that particular craft. As a consequence of that the planerary speed limit would be lower than the speed limit in space, maybe 200m/s.

Furthermore here are some points regarding gameplay and immersiveness:

Gameplay:

- Ships will have more or less drag, giving constant room for engineering improvement in terms of speed

- Planetary combat will allow for adjusting your flight behaviour based on speed advantage

Immersiveness:

- Going very fast in an atmosphere makes the screen shake just like when accelerating, making you feel that there's something pushing against you

- Exiting the atmosphere with a fast ship will be very noticable when the screen shake disappears and suddenly you'll able to accellerate to a higher speed