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How fast is a Rheinland turtle? - Scumbag - 05-29-2014
The battleship? I just got caught up by 4 or 5 battleships that were constantly shooting at me. I was at full speed 90 m/s. How did they do that?
RE: How fast is a Rheinland turtle? - Jayce - 05-29-2014
Formation, strafing, being better at caps than you, a number of reasons. It's easy to catch a BS if they don't know what the target is doing.
RE: How fast is a Rheinland turtle? - SMGSterlin - 05-29-2014
They were probably slingshotting.
It's when you use formation when traveling with an ally to go above the normal cruise speed, then engine kill to catch up with a ship running in open space.
Ship A is running from ships B and C, B is in front of C, so C uses formation (F4) on ship B. As soon as ship C is close to ship B, he engine kills, making his speed stay above the normal cruise speed, and passes ship B. Then ship B does what ship C just did.
RE: How fast is a Rheinland turtle? - Scumbag - 05-29-2014
Oh, right forgot about that. So basically if i'm not on TS with everyone else i'm gonna lose on a cap no matter what. Got it.
RE: How fast is a Rheinland turtle? - Jayce - 05-29-2014
(05-29-2014, 08:54 PM)SMGSterlin Wrote: They were probably slingshotting.
It's when you use formation when traveling with an ally to go above the normal cruise speed, then engine kill to catch up with a ship running in open space.
Ship A is running from ships B and C, B is in front of C, so C uses formation (F4) on ship B. As soon as ship C is close to ship B, he engine kills, making his speed stay above the normal cruise speed, and passes ship B. Then ship B does what ship C just did.
They shouldn't be slingshotting if the other dude is doing 90 ms, or they're bads.
RE: How fast is a Rheinland turtle? - Scumbag - 05-29-2014
Don't mean to sound like a crybaby but i just lost the desire to log a cap.
RE: How fast is a Rheinland turtle? - Jayce - 05-29-2014
(05-29-2014, 08:58 PM)Scumbag Wrote: Don't mean to sound like a crybaby but i just lost the desire to log a cap.
Then don't log a cap, if you don't know the strats to use one.
RE: How fast is a Rheinland turtle? - SnakThree - 05-29-2014
(05-29-2014, 08:54 PM)SMGSterlin Wrote: They were probably slingshotting.
It's when you use formation when traveling with an ally to go above the normal cruise speed, then engine kill to catch up with a ship running in open space.
Ship A is running from ships B and C, B is in front of C, so C uses formation (F4) on ship B. As soon as ship C is close to ship B, he engine kills, making his speed stay above the normal cruise speed, and passes ship B. Then ship B does what ship C just did.
Slingshot doesn't work since 4.86. You suck so hard.
RE: How fast is a Rheinland turtle? - Jayce - 05-29-2014
(05-29-2014, 09:01 PM)Snak3 Wrote:(05-29-2014, 08:54 PM)SMGSterlin Wrote: They were probably slingshotting.
It's when you use formation when traveling with an ally to go above the normal cruise speed, then engine kill to catch up with a ship running in open space.
Ship A is running from ships B and C, B is in front of C, so C uses formation (F4) on ship B. As soon as ship C is close to ship B, he engine kills, making his speed stay above the normal cruise speed, and passes ship B. Then ship B does what ship C just did.
Slingshot doesn't work since 4.86. You suck so hard.
Actually, it does. You suck, you just don't realize that you slingshot 6 m/s faster than regular cruise, rather than 40. Don't tell people they suck when you don't know what you're talking about.
RE: How fast is a Rheinland turtle? - Scumbag - 05-29-2014
(05-29-2014, 08:59 PM)Jayce Wrote:(05-29-2014, 08:58 PM)Scumbag Wrote: Don't mean to sound like a crybaby but i just lost the desire to log a cap.
Then don't log a cap, if you don't know the strats to use one.
Meanwhile the pvp whores are telling me to go fly caps cause snubs are for pros.