• Gwynzer
  • Gwynzer
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Re: MAJOR IMPROVEMENT SUGGESTION

Have you got any idea how fast these ships actually go?  If you were to put one of these ships in a normal land map without editing its properties, it would fly across the map in a couple of seconds.  Infact, these ships fly so fast that they occasianally cause a bug in the engine which stops shots doing damage at such high speeds.

Please, in future do a little more research, all the problems relating to speed were already stated in this thread and countless others.

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23 Reply by Safe-Keeper (edited by Safe-Keeper 2009-02-05 23:38:17)

  • From: Grong, Norway
  • Registered: 2006-07-25
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Re: MAJOR IMPROVEMENT SUGGESTION

What Gwynzer said. The perception that ships move slowly is an illusion brought about by the fact that there is no terrain in space, so the only things to compare your speed to are starships, which are big objects. It is also a mistake to judge the speed of space fighters by that of their atmospheric counterparts, as the latter have had their speed and handling significantly reduced.

There are several ways to observe this. The two best ones are to
a) put an FS fighter (a space one) in a ground map and see how fast you cross the map, or
b) watch a BattleDirector recording and try to follow a Capital Ship going at full boost.

I haven't played since 2007. Has 1.4 Fixed the issue above?

Short answer, no. Long answer, there's no issue to fix.

EDIT: Though I do believe 1.2 or 1.3 actually did up the speed of fighters a tiny bit.

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  • Markus
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Re: MAJOR IMPROVEMENT SUGGESTION

cant we use the weather effect in a way that there are these smal particals in space? lets say space junk giving people a little more the idea of speed?
though i think its impossible and might give huge frame rates drops. just brainstorming here tongue

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  • From: Finland
  • Registered: 2007-01-01
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Re: MAJOR IMPROVEMENT SUGGESTION

Markus wrote:

cant we use the weather effect in a way that there are these smal particals in space? lets say space junk giving people a little more the idea of speed?
though i think its impossible and might give huge frame rates drops. just brainstorming here tongue

There are particles (unless they have been removed tongue). They just are really small. The easiest way to properly see them is to fly close to the ISD in EFH.

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  • From: Grong, Norway
  • Registered: 2006-07-25
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Re: MAJOR IMPROVEMENT SUGGESTION

Yeah, space junk is already in, but I think it was gone for a while, and I don't know if it's in all maps.

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