Weapon range, cruise engines etc

Fri Apr 25, 2003 8:31 am by xenole

Noticed that if I'm in a heavy firefight, and activate my cruise engines to run, one of two things happens:

[1 I start cruising and if I don't fire off a countermeasure, a cruise disruptor hits me pretty much everytime and I drop out of cruise.....can anything else kick you out of cruise mode?

[2 If I do get to cruise speed, I rarely gain any distance on the ships behind me. It's as if they're travelling at cruise speed too, yet they're still firing lasers and missiles constantly at me which isn't possible at cruise speed? Gives the impression too that some ships have well over 1000m ranges for their weapons eg police ships seem to be able to hit me quite far out for some reason, along with one other type (something like, but not samura).

Fri Apr 25, 2003 8:39 am by hairfarmer

Disrupters are anoying but nothing else can drop you out of cruise. as for your other question, I don't think they can fire in cruise. But they might be using burners. And the wasp missles travel mutch faster then your cruise engines.

If I had a nickel for every time someone told me that my idea of building a giant robotic parrot out of melted down coins was a bad idea, I would have one kick a$$ giant robotic parrot.

Fri Apr 25, 2003 8:43 am by deadlock

well it depends. if you fire up ya cruise engines and the bad guy is right up your arse then then you'll be doin 300 and ya enemy buy this time can see the big flare comin out ya arse end and use's his thruster to try and keep up with you till he can fire a cruise disrupter off at u.
which also means he be usin his other guns

Edited by - DeadLock on 25-04-2003 09:44:16

Fri Apr 25, 2003 9:22 am by Unpro

Cruise won't get you out. I find that ships trying to get out on cruise are very vurnerable for the first few seconds when the cruise engine fires.

You may want to afterburn away first, fires a steady stream of countermeaseures, and cruise away.

Otherwise use the engine cut off tactic. Make sure you are in the free flying mode, afterburn, press z, and turn 180 deg around,facing your enemy.

..and I just wonder, where do I buy one of those?...

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