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Posted: **Sun Aug 24, 2025 5:17 pm**

Recently, while browsing both the official subreddit and this forum, I noticed a lot of complaints about spaceships moving vertically.
Many players find it disorienting, confusing, or just plain annoying.

So I decided to help. Not with 1, not with 2… but with 21 better alternatives to vertical travel!

Solution 1

: 998_horizontal.png (1.39 MiB) Viewed 415 times

Solution 2

: 997_diagonal.png (1.42 MiB) Viewed 415 times

Solution 3

: 996_zigzag.png (1.42 MiB) Viewed 415 times

Solution 4

: 995_loop.png (1.42 MiB) Viewed 415 times

Solution 5

: 994_spyral.png (1.44 MiB) Viewed 415 times

Solution 6

: 993_knights_move.png (1.41 MiB) Viewed 415 times

Solution 7

: 992_screen_bounce.png (1.43 MiB) Viewed 415 times

Solution 8

: 991_hyperbolic_line.png (717.68 KiB) Viewed 415 times

Solution 9

: 990_wormhole.png (1.41 MiB) Viewed 415 times

Solution 10

: 989_teleportation.png (1.39 MiB) Viewed 415 times

Solution 11

: 988_orbital_slingshot.png (1.45 MiB) Viewed 415 times

Solution 12

: 987_lissajous_curve.png (1.44 MiB) Viewed 415 times

Solution 13

: 986_pointcaré_disk_path.png (577.32 KiB) Viewed 415 times

Solution 14

: 985_lorenz_attractor.png (1.14 MiB) Viewed 415 times

Solution 16

: 983_chest_hairl.png (1.37 MiB) Viewed 415 times

Solution 17

: 981_proper_hillbert_curvel.png (142.85 KiB) Viewed 415 times

Solution 18

: 980_combinator_driven_differential_steer_thrustl.png (1.44 MiB) Viewed 415 times

Solution 19

: 979_demolisherl.png (1.38 MiB) Viewed 415 times

Solution 21

: 977_train_problem.png (1.43 MiB) Viewed 415 times

Solution 24

: 974_really_long_trebuchet.png (1.41 MiB) Viewed 415 times

Originally were 24 but couldnt add more images, so I scrapped the worst ones

Posted: **Sun Aug 24, 2025 6:16 pm**

this is hilarious. Ironically the hyperbolic curve is actually just a good suggestion lol. Not really sure how you would implement it though.

Posted: **Sun Aug 24, 2025 6:25 pm**

ahahah thanks, I tought a couple of these could actually work in-game, mainly the horizontal travel and wormhole travel

Posted: **Sun Aug 24, 2025 6:43 pm**

eugenekay wrote: Sun Dec 22, 2024 5:25 pm Feature Exists:

Screenshot 2024-12-22 122129.png (109.44 KiB) Viewed 379 times

(This is a Joke)

Posted: **Sun Aug 24, 2025 11:43 pm**

I lost it at the Lorenz attractor being a "less confusing" alternative to up

Hilbert curve was good too. I'm a sucker for grad school mathematics shitposts I guess.

Posted: **Tue Aug 26, 2025 9:33 am**

I like them all except screen bounce.

To be fair the best option miss your eyes:

Acceleration and deceleration: 1st half ship move with engine backwards, second half ship rotates and all asteroids are from the engine side.

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