My suggestion is to add specialized booster thrusters to the game. These thrusters would normally be inactive, but can be used with the press of a button to give the ship a sudden burst of speed in the forward direction. This would allow for some crazy manuevers in game and good manuevering abilities would go from a helpful ability in a pilot to an essential skill.
Some of the fancy manuevering that could become possible with such thrusters can be seen in an example taken from the show Battlestar Galactica in the YouTube video given in the link below. In this SciFi series, the Raptor fighter ships have the ability to stop their thrusters, flip the ship completely around on its nose, then with a sudden burst of power charge straight back at the enemy in a matter of seconds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G9t0OFHSWg#t=225
These boosters would normally be inactive or substantially less powerful than normal thrusters and would consume a large chunk of power when activated. Like with regular thrusters, the more that are present on the ship, the more effective the boost would be and the more power would be consumed.
What do you think?
Some of the fancy manuevering that could become possible with such thrusters can be seen in an example taken from the show Battlestar Galactica in the YouTube video given in the link below. In this SciFi series, the Raptor fighter ships have the ability to stop their thrusters, flip the ship completely around on its nose, then with a sudden burst of power charge straight back at the enemy in a matter of seconds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G9t0OFHSWg#t=225
These boosters would normally be inactive or substantially less powerful than normal thrusters and would consume a large chunk of power when activated. Like with regular thrusters, the more that are present on the ship, the more effective the boost would be and the more power would be consumed.
What do you think?