umm...I think I've read all that info in other posts, and you go to the engine_equip.ini or something like that and change the engine thrust (once again a 1/600 ratio) Though I don't have my note in front of me and not at my home computer...check around the forum, its there.

My question is how to change the cruise speed, and if you can change it individually per ship as well. My friends and I are created a mod for our lan to make ships have a few more differences with ship speeds.

From what I've read, I should use BINI to open the constant.ini file, open up the constant.ini.txt file, but does anybody know what you are suppose to change?

To edit the max speed of a ship you can change the max_force value in engine_equip.ini
default for most engines is 48000 which divided by 600 just happens to be 80.
But if you change the value of linear_drag you can get much higher speeds with lower max_force.

For editiing the cruise speed you have to add a value in the constants.ini file. In the section [EngineEquipConsts add the line CRUISING_SPEED=????. As the value you give the direct value, not multiplied by 600.

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the 600 is actually the total value of linear_drag (599 of engine + 1 of ship)

I hate to tell you this but the CRUISING_SPEED = ???? does not work. I think the crusing speed of 300 is hardcoded and cannot be changed. The best thing to do would be to change the max_force for the thruster to make it go faster. Sometimes using the thruster is better than waiting on the cruise to take effect if you are being hit by hostiles, plus you have to deal with criuse disrupter missiles.

Example: max_force = 150,000 give you about 330 and give you enough time to get away from any hostiles.

Starnova the cruise speed works and I CAN verify it.

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???? means the value you want e.g.: CRUISING_SPEED = 600. This setting works fine for me in SP (haven't tried MP so far).

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Sorcerer :

You can adjust the max speed of any ship by editing the engine data in engine_equip.ini

SInce i created an entirely new ship i basicly copied everythign that was in refrence to the anubis craft, edit this info and pasted it below the anubis data in the files.

This needs to be done in each ship engine edit the max_force = (speed * 600) so for mine a speed of 150 * 600 (this is the linear drag from engine(599) + ship(1) = 600(total linear drag on hull))

[Engine
nickname = ra_engine_01
ids_name = 263702
ids_info = 264702
volume = 0.000000
mass = 10
max_force = 90000
linear_drag = 599
power_usage = 0
reverse_fraction = 0.200000
flame_effect = gf_co_smallengine02_fire
trail_effect = gf_co_smallengine02_trail
trail_effect_player = gf_co_smallengine02_playtrail
cruise_charge_time = 3
cruise_power_usage = 20
character_start_sound = engine_oe_h_fighter_start
character_loop_sound = engine_oe_h_fighter_loop
character_pitch_range = -50, 25
rumble_sound = rumble_oe_h_fighter
rumble_atten_range = -5, 0
rumble_pitch_range = -25, 25
engine_kill_sound = engine_bw_fighter_kill
cruise_start_sound = engine_bw_cruise_start
cruise_loop_sound = engine_bw_cruise_loop
cruise_stop_sound = engine_bw_cruise_stop
cruise_disrupt_sound = cruise_disrupt
cruise_backfire_sound = cruise_backfire
indestructible = false
outside_cone_attenuation = -3
inside_sound_cone = 60
outside_sound_cone = 180

You can get the ships to go much faster by lowering the linear drag on the engine HOWEVER do this by factors eg factor of 2 = linear drag of engine = 299 then the above figure for my max force will actually = 300 top speed.

Starnova : the crusising speed DOES work, the actual number displayed is a game override like that when travelling through tradelanes your top speed in a tradelane is about 2500

Max speed allowe d by the crusie engine setting is 990

Try this enter cruise with a new speed set in and then use the kill engines it will count down from the real top speed. Also its actually really easy to tell your moving faster since if you head out at full cruise to a 30k waypoint you'll get there in no time compared to before you change the setting

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