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Shakes37
Cadet
Joined: October 17, 2003
Posts: 2
|  Posted: 2003-10-20 15:07
Emergency stop IS realistic. It would simply be a couple, nose-mounted thrusters. They fire when you press s**t-e and each thruster has one "ammo". In oother words you can only use it once before you have to reload it or even buy a new one because all of the juice is used up in one thrust.
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Tbone
Grand Admiral
Joined: July 21, 2001
Posts: 1756
From: Vancouver
| Posted: 2003-10-20 18:09
StarFleet Command has an emergency stop. You stop dead in the span of a second, but are totally immobile for a time after that (I don't play it, so I don't know how long).
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_x$witchBladex_ [1.480 Fanboy]
Grand Admiral
Joined: February 26, 2003
Posts: 849
From: Upstate New York
| Posted: 2003-10-20 21:04
jus to add to the just stopping after your engines are destroyed, why do your shots fire ahead of the lil bugger?? i mean he isnt moving!
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Gideon
Cadet
Joined: September 14, 2001
Posts: 4604
From: Oregon, USA
| Posted: 2003-10-20 23:22
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On 2003-10-20 21:04, _xSwitchBladex_{}Bomber{} wrote:
jus to add to the just stopping after your engines are destroyed, why do your shots fire ahead of the lil bugger?? i mean he isnt moving!
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This is the much talked about "destroyed engines aim bug".
Basically, the game sees three values. The speed you are set to, the speed you are going, and the speed your engines are set to. Now, normally the speed you are going and the speed your engines are set to is the same value. However, when your engines are destroyed, they are still set to a speed, but your ship stops, because they are no longer affecting the speed you are going.
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Eledore Massis [R33]
Grand Admiral
Templar Knights
Joined: May 26, 2002
Posts: 2694
From: tsohlacoLocalhost
| Posted: 2003-10-21 07:47
booo there go's my advantige whit my instant stopping scout
o wel i think this is a MUST HAVE on the next patch
or a button that we can switch the engines on or off instantly
hehe that could be irritating instant stopping in combat
o wel i like to see this hapen
but than again if i remember correctly F told me once that
that would mean a major over hall of the movment of all ships ect.
but we will see
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jedi42
Grand Admiral
Evil Empires Inc.
Joined: February 25, 2002
Posts: 478
From: jedi42
| Posted: 2003-10-21 08:22
I'd like to point out that "INSTANT stopping" is somewhat unrealistic. Stopping very, very quickly, is more reasonable.
Whatever energy provides the force for the present deceleration would simply have to be enhanced so it could do the same amount of work over less time.
If you can jump while moving, you could set a jump for about 250gu+leadtime to hit J, it'd be easy.
[ This Message was edited by: 42 on 2003-10-21 08:23 ]
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Cyborg509
Cadet
Joined: February 24, 2003
Posts: 38
From: Indiana
| Posted: 2003-10-21 14:20
Well not quite an instant stop but a very fast stop would be nice. Because me and im sure a lot of people don't pay attention sometimes and have no way to stop when going for a planet.
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Bobamelius
Grand Admiral
Galactic Navy
Joined: October 08, 2002
Posts: 2074
From: Ohio
| Posted: 2003-10-21 19:01
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On 2003-10-20 15:07, Shakes37 wrote:
They fire when you press s**t-e and each thruster...
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lol Nice Typo.
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Seffywuff
Vice Admiral
Joined: January 13, 2003
Posts: 110
From: OKC
| Posted: 2003-10-28 18:03
It would be neat if an astroids type moving system was implmented once the engines started getting damaged... the ship wouldent have enough power to stay on its current curse as it turned therefore it would start swerving sideways, would be cool, wouldent it? Would be like the more damaged your engines are versus the speed your going determines the ammount of astroids-movement your getting. BTW im not sure.... is astroids the game im thinking of? Was there another name for it? I dont know, you shoudlent know what im thinking. If you did you would be telepathic and that would suck. No one should hear whats in my mind, anyway back on subject, pancakes are verry nice.
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