heh, bogeys in Freelancer don't THINK you're dead. They won't just leave you alone. It's very rare that a bogey is actually chasing you and you die from it. Besides, you would need a quick turning ship to do that, like the Banshee.
But I just use power and blast through them with my power weapons. heh.

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I live on the outskirts of the Sirius Sector near a Nomad Nebula...Planet Crete, Omicron Gamma.

Yep. That is useful especially on high-level assassination missions.

The target usually arrives with the first wave, so just nail him/her, afterburn back to the location of your 'home base' and cut your engines.

Turn back facing them, drop a few shots, and keep flying away from them.

Effectively cuts the time you'd otherwise need to kill the other ships.

if i wanna have a lot of money in a short time or if i'm not could do that mission without running away i use that, but mostly i would stay and kill the others.

I haven't used standard engines in months...

I remapped my increase/decrease speed (W and S) to afterburners/reverse. those two, and strafe will not break you out of engine kill mode. I mapped Tab as my engine kill button. Everytime I leave a base, come out of cruise, or whatever, I kill my engines, and start flying on afterburner (just a quick puff here and there will keep you at 200 speed indefinately). I only use the decrease speed button occasionally (i remapped it to X) and even then only when I want to come to an absolute stop of 0 speed.

In combat vs players, it makes you harder to hit, due to the sudden erratic changes of direction that are typical of flight in EK mode. However, I find the AI actually hits you a little easier. Nonetheless, I still use EK mode vs the AI, if only for the practice. It's not like they hurt you much anyway.

EDIT: Also, using EK mode when in cruise will keep you going at 300 speed for a period of time. It's a great way to get away from AI, as disrupters can't break you out of 300 speed, when you're only drifting..

Edited by - Gung_Ho on 01-07-2003 17:39:40

Disruptors do get you out of engine kill slide - it's just that the AI is really nice about this and does not fire disruptors unless your cruise engines are activated.

just do first cruise engines on, wait for incoming missile and kill engines, the disruptor hit u but u still going with a speed around the 300.

so disruptors do only something when ur engines r working, by cruisespeed works ur normal engines as well, if they disrupt the cruise engine, the normal engine will working with breaking u down to normal speed (80).

sometimes they shoot a disruptor to u wenn ur cruise engines begins to work, so wait mostly with using cruise engines in a hostile ai conflict

Yep, I use that tactic often when I'm going from Omicrons to Rheinland or Liberty.

I pass through Omega-11, and the Hessians there can be quite annoying. So, I set course towards Solarius Station, and every time I see a Hessian patrol, I cut my engines, and fly happily away