Two questions on Trade Lanes

Mon Mar 24, 2003 12:37 am by Roach

Hi, I'm really new here and I'm going to get the game as soon as it comes back in stock

Anyway I was just looking around the demo and I'm kind of puzzled by a few things.

First - How far can Trade Lanes be put apart? Just asking because I was thinking about putting only two up one at the start and end. What issues might this bring up, if they were say on completely opposite sides of the sector?

Second - What happens when solid objects are put in the path of Trade Lanes... for example a sun

I'm kind of guessing it would be like running into the object normally, but I wanted to know for sure.

Thanks for any help.

Mon Mar 24, 2003 1:23 am by genius

well if you only had 2 tradelanes, it would be hard for them to get disrupted... the more tradelanes, the greater the risk,

Mon Mar 24, 2003 12:57 pm by God of Death

1.The Tradelanes can be apart any distance you want them to be, but it would be really boring so and when you want to end the Traderide and start again you couldn't do it.

2. I haven't tested this theorry but when set up some tradelanes false I got ride through an planed and it did me no damage.

Mon Mar 24, 2003 1:39 pm by Quickshot14

acutally i can anwser your question about solid objects, as i was creating my new tradelane in libery around the suflok shipyards i accidntly had it go throught part of it, it seems while your in a trade lane sequence 'collision' is no existance as i went through the part with no damage, i of course moved my trade lane to a more reasonable place but it still goes throught a part of a densely layed minefield near by *so whatever you do while in the trade lane don't press esc *heh* but it does no damage or any problems. This is what i found hope it helps.

Mon Mar 24, 2003 10:06 pm by Roach

Alright cool, thanks a lot guys for all your help.

Tue Mar 25, 2003 12:26 am by Ikkonoishi

Actually the collision is not removed.

What happens is that you go through things to fast for the collision to affect it.

I have a tradelane that passes near the sun in liberty.

Sometimes I explode sometimes I survive.

It depends on how fast my computer is running.

I have noticed an interesting effect.

If you place two linked trade gates and face them away from each other if you dock with one of them you will be sent in the other direction for as long as you don't exit the lane.

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