hmm, same route, large train - 3 to 4 orgies lost, usually 4 and I usually hit a few rocks... cockpit view+manual flight=best way to fly. too bad you loose quite a bit if you fight that way as your FOV gets narrowed:(
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God? - from 'Nightfall' by I. Asimov The Outcasts consider Siniestre Nube a sacred place for several reasons. Early explorers discovered a jumphole within the depths of the cloud that leads to a strange world of ringed stars and strange craft. All ships in the burrial ground are placed facing that hole to honor the Alien Spirits. - An Outcast rumor
as you are aware there are loads of players using speed Mods, this i was hoping would be stopped with a speed upgrade only to 400(Pretty Please)
on my server Rogue Ideas Freelancer 24/7 we only allow Disc 4.82 and delete and ban anyone using any other Mod. the only other rule we stick to is they make accounts on our forum before 48 hours is up,, if they dont i delete accounts so as to stop loads of non-player files on our server,
i wont allow cheaters or modders to destroy this great Mod and will always stay with the Discovery Mod.
as regards bumping into those damn rocks!!! i love it lol
Keep up this great work you do Discovery Team,, you make freelancer the best game out there
I think that what you just described is the biggest problem in Discovery.
Bump into pieces of debris and junk was fine in the original, since the fields were designed to accomodate small-medium sized ships, not battlestar 2's and spyglasses. I even have trouble flying my prison ship around in fields, even at low speeds with autopilot on.
The fact, is, that it is completely illogical for a ship the size of a battlestar 2 being unable to just plow through junk.
Discovery is a great mod, and I know that this problem was one of the problems in Freelancer to begin with, but I still hope that Igiss can fix it...
' Wrote:hmm, same route, large train - 3 to 4 orgies lost, usually 4 and I usually hit a few rocks... cockpit view+manual flight=best way to fly. too bad you loose quite a bit if you fight that way as your FOV gets narrowed:(
That's why we have cruise disruptors...
The point of cruise is to allow people to run.
If you a serious about increasing speed why don't you just allow players to use afterburners to add to EK cruise speed?
Now, if you activate your burners with EK on, the EK velocity magically disappears, and the burners go on.
Quote:[7:42:05 PM][6:51:36 PM] Igor (Smokey): btw terry
[6:51:48 PM] Terrance Cooper: Ye?
[6:52:00 PM] Igor (Smokey): nothin
[6:52:03 PM] Igor (Smokey): just sayin btw
[6:52:05 PM] Terrance Cooper: <_<
Quote:Johnny_Haas: you shot anti criuse speed rockets!!!
Johnny_Haas: but why????
Johnny_Haas: ??
Johnny_Haas: why you shoot criuse speed rockets?
Autopilot is one of the main reasons people fly into stuff.
The autopilot is also set up for smaller ships, flying on autopilot in anything bigger then a gunboat is almost certain suicide.
For some reason the autopilt will try flying you into the only rock/other ship in a system, play pinball in asteroid fields with your ship as the ball, try going though an entire star, try to bounce you off planets etc.
The safest, fastest and easiest way to fly... manually, don't trust the autpilot, it'll get you killed.
' Wrote:Autopilot is one of the main reasons people fly into stuff.
The autopilot is also set up for smaller ships, flying on autopilot in anything bigger then a gunboat is almost certain suicide.
For some reason the autopilt will try flying you into the only rock/other ship in a system, play pinball in asteroid fields with your ship as the ball, try going though an entire star, try to bounce you off planets etc.
The safest, fastest and easiest way to fly... manually, don't trust the autpilot, it'll get you killed.
the AP has worked well for me in the past at really low speeds though...
Thanks for the advice anyway...
I still hope that Igiss can fix this though. Its kinda stupid for a battlestar to get stuck between a couple of roids 1/50 its size...
Quote:[7:42:05 PM][6:51:36 PM] Igor (Smokey): btw terry
[6:51:48 PM] Terrance Cooper: Ye?
[6:52:00 PM] Igor (Smokey): nothin
[6:52:03 PM] Igor (Smokey): just sayin btw
[6:52:05 PM] Terrance Cooper: <_<
Quote:Johnny_Haas: you shot anti criuse speed rockets!!!
Johnny_Haas: but why????
Johnny_Haas: ??
Johnny_Haas: why you shoot criuse speed rockets?
Yes it is hair-pullingly annoying when you bash into some tiny sh*t of a rock, which you don't see until the last second, and it sends your l.train spinning like a dreidel in spite of the fact you're 10,000 times heavier than it.
But I would not agree with messing with the asteroid fields in Disco, b/c there has to be at least one disadvantage to owing a battleship. That's life.
@BULLDOGNK: hey I've play Rogue Ideas before, cool server man! Thx for reminder to register on the forums.
Asteroids... What would Picard do?... Oh Yes! "Picard to La Forge, we need more power to the deflector ray"
:cool:
as To the speed thing, I have said this before what would be real handy is a dual range cruise, keep the 350 but how about a 250 as well. This would really help out the big ships.
My Lil' boats are
SS_Scorpion
SS_JackyBlue
SS_Guppy