Engine Top speed unlimited

Nameckian · Post by **Nameckian** » Fri Jun 27, 2003 3:27 am

As title states, when I go in my top afterburner speed is 900ish and top engine speed is 324ish. Anyhow, sooner or later I get unlimited engine speeds (in the area of 5000 I gave up). It kills my shields but hey, who can catch that?

Dunno what info you guys need, tell me and i'll organise what i can.

Post by **hurleybird** » Fri Jun 27, 2003 3:28 am

When do you get unlimited speed? is that using TC?

Post by **hellcatv** » Fri Jun 27, 2003 6:04 am

he probably used 'y' to toggle combat mode off

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 11:04 pm

hellcatv wrote:he probably used 'y' to toggle combat mode off

What does it mean "combat mode"? I sometimes get this too. My shields go to null if I go too fast. What causes this?

FlyingAce · Post by **FlyingAce** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 1:10 am

combat mode limits how fast your ship can go regardless of the fact that there is nothing to slow you down in space.

@hellcat I'ld also like to know why my shields die if I go fast. it's annoying when I use the home key to overtake an enemy ship

Post by **hellcatv** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 1:17 am

your ship has a speed rating--if you exceed it particles blast your shields

it's to prevent you from using home without some disadvantage

home is a REALLY powerful trick--and I don't think you've had the AI use it on you--but it makes it totally unfun

luckily the new AI is a bit better--but can still be defeated by a good home usage lol

Post by **dandandaman** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 7:56 am

occasionally, after docking I think, combat mode it turned off by itself (this happens very sporadically)....

also, why oh why is "unlimited speed" capped? Depending on the ship, I've so far reached limits between 20 and 30 thousand

barely enough to get a good star streak going

Dan.a

KernelBurner · Post by **KernelBurner** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 8:28 am

u know somthing that happened to me too 2 or 3 times... but it has one disavantage... u take half an hours to stop

Post by **hurleybird** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 11:52 pm

yah, we need to do something about that.

peteyg · Post by **peteyg** » Thu Sep 18, 2003 12:09 am

I believe that's a config variable... a maximum speed limit for the universe.

I had to put a few zeros behind it for Vega Trek warping to be fast enough. : )

It's like speed_limit or max_speed or something.