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Blackwuf
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Joined: Thu Jan 30, 2003 3:00 am Posts: 2
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Ship speeds
The question has to do with something I read on an old site the other day. The site was talking about how the speed that a ship moved was dependent on how many turns to warp the ship used. So as a simple example a ship that takes 2 turns to warp would be twice as fast as a ship that took 4 turns to warp. The site was talking in terms of seconds, so 2 seconds to warp compared to 4 seconds.
In the games I have been playing this doesn't really seem to be true, so I'm wonding if that is something from the old days or if it is a setting that is controlled by the Sysop. Maybe just sped up for todays environment. If it was just sped up it would mean that someone trying to chase me down in and "slow" ship would never catch me assuming we are both using scripts.
Thanks in advance for any input,
Blackwuf
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Thu Mar 20, 2008 2:41 pm |
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Crosby
Lieutenant Commander
Joined: Sun Jan 29, 2006 3:00 am Posts: 793 Location: Iowa
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Re: Ship speeds
That's the ship delay factor, you can find it in the " S- View Game Settings " at the game login. It's in fractions of a second I think. Usually nowadays, its set to none. The effects you notice occur when it is other than none. There is more to it all than that, but that's how to find the setting.
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Promethius
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Joined: Mon Feb 09, 2004 3:00 am Posts: 3141 Location: Kansas
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Re: Ship speeds
Blackwuf wrote: The question has to do with something I read on an old site the other day. The site was talking about how the speed that a ship moved was dependent on how many turns to warp the ship used. So as a simple example a ship that takes 2 turns to warp would be twice as fast as a ship that took 4 turns to warp. The site was talking in terms of seconds, so 2 seconds to warp compared to 4 seconds.
In the games I have been playing this doesn't really seem to be true, so I'm wonding if that is something from the old days or if it is a setting that is controlled by the Sysop. Maybe just sped up for todays environment. If it was just sped up it would mean that someone trying to chase me down in and "slow" ship would never catch me assuming we are both using scripts.
Thanks in advance for any input,
Blackwuf Ship delay has various settings controlled by the sysOp.
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Thu Mar 20, 2008 3:26 pm |
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Blackwuf
Private 1st Class
Joined: Thu Jan 30, 2003 3:00 am Posts: 2
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Re: Ship speeds
Thanks for the infor guys. The game I'm playing is set to None so that means every ship is the same speed, it just a matter of how fast the script/connection is.
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Thu Mar 20, 2008 3:41 pm |
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Thrawn
Commander
Joined: Fri Aug 20, 2004 2:00 am Posts: 1801 Location: Outer Rims
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Re: Ship speeds
Blackwuf wrote: Thanks for the infor guys. The game I'm playing is set to None so that means every ship is the same speed, it just a matter of how fast the script/connection is. Correct. And if in a turn game, a ship using 15 turns per warp will be done faster than one with 2 turns per warp.
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Thu Mar 20, 2008 4:22 pm |
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The Jackalope
1st Sergeant
Joined: Wed Jun 03, 2009 4:39 pm Posts: 36
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Re: Ship speeds
Thrawn wrote: Correct. And if in a turn game, a ship using 15 turns per warp will be done faster than one with 2 turns per warp. And a ship with 4 turns per warp will use up its turns twice as fast as a ship with 2 turns per warp. Also, two plus two equals four.
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Sun Jul 05, 2009 10:44 am |
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Scrat
Chief Warrant Officer
Joined: Sun Jan 20, 2008 5:15 am Posts: 142
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Re: Ship speeds
Also if ship delay is on it will affect how long it takes to launch a wave of fighters. The slower the ship the longer it takes.
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Sun Jul 05, 2009 12:11 pm |
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the reverend
Gameop
Joined: Thu Mar 08, 2001 3:00 am Posts: 886 Location: USA
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Re: Ship speeds
Scrat wrote: Also if ship delay is on it will affect how long it takes to launch a wave of fighters. The slower the ship the longer it takes. i'm going to go out on a limb and say that ship delay has nothing to do with fighter waves. i'm pretty sure it has only to do with moving.
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Sun Jul 05, 2009 4:39 pm |
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Singularity
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Joined: Thu Jun 02, 2005 2:00 am Posts: 5558 Location: USA
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Re: Ship speeds
Quote: i'm going to go out on a limb and say that ship delay has nothing to do with fighter waves. i'm pretty sure it has only to do with moving. Actually he's correct, this was a change in one of the last few versions. Ship delay effects fig wave launches just as it effects movement, so that a 4tpw ship takes a full second to power up. Several years ago there was a turny w/ ship delay and small figwaves. You could grid around and get a saveme long before the ISS could lift to kill you on a pdrop.
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the reverend
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Re: Ship speeds
interesting. i stand corrected then.
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