Speed Up!

[=Hellfire=]

I was wondering if anyone ever proposed to increase the speed of all ships by 25%.

Maybe it would be more challenging, not only for bigger ship's pilots, but for snub pilots too.

it could make the battles even more awesome.

What do you think?

[sindroms]

I think I remember wanting to suggest the reduction of the size of Discovery not by removing systems but by simply upping the cruise speed of ships, but there was that one glitch where things appearing on your radar tend to ''lag forward'' after a moment and large speeds would make it worse.

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PSA: If you have been having stutter/FPS lag on Disco where it does not run as smoothly as other games, please look at the fix here: https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthrea...pid2306502
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[=Hellfire=]

i'm not talking about cruise speeds, only impulse and thrust. imo it's too slow for what a fighter is supposed bring in terms of speed.

90m/s is 324 km/h. Even an old F-14 Tomcat has a max speed of 690 m/s so 2'485 km/h...

[Psyentific]

Yeah, and Freelancer planets are, what, 10km in diameter? The whole game was never built to-scale.

Just pretend everything is measured in Space Meters, which bear no real relation to real meters.

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[=Hellfire=]

but still, i think it would still be possible and not too much of a strain on the server if they upped the speed by 25%

[sindroms]

An increase of thrust speed would need a global rebalance of all ship weapons. And it is not as simple as making a macro that increases all current stats by X% as it does not scale.

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PSA: If you have been having stutter/FPS lag on Disco where it does not run as smoothly as other games, please look at the fix here: https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthrea...pid2306502
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[Skorak]

It would require a complete rebalance of pretty much everything.

It is not that easy. Just upping each ships speed will not suffice.