My attempt at bringing my name to life

Sat Mar 08, 2003 12:21 am by freighter fighter

Having given a clyesdale freighter the speed and agility of a light fighter with the armour and power of a capital ship, i decided to test out my new baby.

i travel to rochester base where i know there are rouges, xenos and junkers.
so there i am sitting there trading fire with the base as no one is there yet, when all of a sudden, 10 rogues, 3 junkers and 5 xenos and 2 mules apear from no where and decide to take me on

( to make myself seem more of an attractive target, i loaded up on oxygen )

anyhow, they engage me the battle lasts for 10 minutes and as far as you can scan there are shield batterys and nanobots all over the place.

You would think they would have figured out that i was bad news by now, but no, they come back AGAIN ! with twice as many ships.

this happens about twice more before i got bored and wandered off, only to have them jump me on my way back to planet pittsburgh.

the moral of the story? Pirates are stupid dont be a pirate

Sat Mar 08, 2003 1:56 am by ThresholdRPG

How did you change the agility/maneuverability of a ship?

Sat Mar 08, 2003 9:32 am by freighter fighter

i changed the mass from 300.00000 to 100.0000 and under that there is a group of things like drag, velocity and something else with 3 sets of numbers. i changed all of them to 2800.00000

Sat Mar 08, 2003 9:36 am by ExoCraft

Yeah i did that on a cruiser to see if it manuvered better if i changed the mass from 5000 to 1000. And yes it did but if anything rammed me the ship whent flying off like it was a piece of paper. It actually looked real funny beeing rammed by a light fighter and the Cruiser is the one that goes spinning off

Sat Mar 08, 2003 9:38 am by Beet

And, with a mass of one, you can forget Trade Lanes altogether, as your normal thrusters and afterburners will propel you at 999m/s, but the cruise engines still won't go beyond 300m/s

Sat Mar 08, 2003 2:00 pm by freighter fighter

with a mass of 1 you can forget trying to dock as well. it will send you around the station 5 times, around half of the solar system, and if you try to dock with a planet you blow up on the atmosphere. same goes with any stations orbiting a planet. mind you i tried it with 0 mass i havent tried it with 1 yet

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