But to respond to the earlier point, a couple problems occur with making the ships faster:

Firstly, dogfighting becomes a huge amount harder.  Unlike other games/mods in 2/2142 we don't rely on heatseeking missiles but straightshot blasters.  As such our weapons are affected much more heavily by the realities of lag and delay across the internet. You'll have noticed this if you ever see your shots hitting a craft but not doing damage.  Speeding up the ships would only make it worse.  And this isn't even taking into account the difficulties of maneuverability and instability that many of our spacecraft encounter at higher speeds in this engine.

And secondly, the engine only supports maps so big.  We already sport extremely large space maps-even more grand when compared to any ground map.  You could fit 64 Endor Strike Team maps on the floor of any one of our space maps, and if you stacked them vertically at 1km intervals you could get 512 of them in the standard area of engagement.  Try walking from one side of Endor Strike team to the other without a speederbike, then imagine doing that 8 times over and that's one side of any space map.  Now try flying an x-wing or a-wing down the side of Taloraan and realise just how fast they are going compared to you walking and hopefully you'll get some sense of how big our maps are.

Our ships are balanced well against the massive distances they have to cross.  If we made them faster we'd have to make the distances greater to maintain that same balance, which would both be impossible in the engine and also not change what you want in the first place.  And since we can't make the maps bigger if you crossed 1.6km in a few seconds then you'd hit the edge of our current maps within 5 seconds.  The game would consist of nothing more than flying back and forth trying not to go out of bounds every couple seconds.

As such I'm not really sure what would be accomplished with making the ships faster other than to say they're faster.  I'll admit the current ones aren't 100% perfect but they're definitely playable and do the job well

I couldn't find this with a quick search of the forums...

How exactly do I rebind the Left Shift boost to another key? I fly with a stick and I hate reaching across to the KB to boost.

-Tolmodus

Assign the second option for sprint in infantery player controls to a joystick button ?

Do i sense that modern public education doesnt teach geometry anymore ?

How exactly do I rebind the Left Shift boost to another key? I fly with a stick and I hate reaching across to the KB to boost.

-Tolmodus

hmmm... i would have to agree with mr.shadow, yes some fighters allready have boost, but normally they are a little slow. I mean they are space ships so if they were real they'd at least be going about 10 times faster and shouldn't take about the same amount of time a car does to travel 1.6 km. They should be able to travel past 1.6 km in about 1 or 2 seconds.

They move far faster than a car. Even in atmosphere.

hmmm... i would have to agree with mr.shadow, yes some fighters allready have boost, but normally they are a little slow. I mean they are space ships so if they were real they'd at least be going about 10 times faster and shouldn't take about the same amount of time a car does to travel 1.6 km. They should be able to travel past 1.6 km in about 1 or 2 seconds.

But this is a game.

Oh, and the fighters on Ryloth - those have had their agility and speed reduced to simulate that they perform worse when not in a vacuum environment.

Also, in addition to the boost, the normal cruising speed of the fighters should be faster, at least twice as fast.  The fighters are currently unrealistically too slow.