Engine Tweak

[Ixalite]

I don't know if this has been suggested before, but what if the top speed of a ship scaled down as the number of engine blocks scaled up. That way, a small fighter could reach high speed, but a large capital ship would be limited.

 

[lupoCani]

That.... really wouldn\'t make any sense. Sure, that may not be the most important aspect of the game, but still, I really think capitals should be significantly faster than smaller ships when it comes to going from point a to point b. Fighters should still be more agile, but that\'s about it.

 

[EpicFailLord123]

Yeah, if anything should scale that way, it should be acceleration.

 

[Angus and Alexis]

Look, already ingame is a power soft cap that makes anything higher than 1M regen very annoying to make.

Due to this, capital acceleration (and thus relative speed) is also soft capped, even more so on athetically pleasing ships.

So stop asking for bloody stupid ideas that ruin the already soft capped system.

 

[EpicFailLord123]

Thrusters consume very little power. If your ships run out of power because of THRUSTERS, you have issues.

 

[Angus and Alexis]

Please build a million+ capital, add thrusters to make it fast, then come back.

 

[EpicFailLord123]

I did.

 

[Angus and Alexis]

Your observations should show that large capitals are already incapable of constant rapid movement due to the soft cap of energy regen.

 

[NeonSturm]

With FTL I think large ships will trade sublight-thrust for FTL-thrust.


http://star-made.org/content/thrusters-and-after-burners

Calbiri mentioned that he thinks as the player\'s ship nears the maximum speed, it should be harder and harder to reach it.


With that it would make large ships most times slower.

And give a reason to use figthers with a high evasion rate.



evasion = thrust *distance-to-attacker /projectile-speed /ship-size

Small ships have less ship-size, thus more evasion.