No, using the standard engines, you can travel at any speed from 0 to 70. And with thrusters, its 160 to 200, depending on how high your standard engines are set at. And the third is locked in at 300 and thats when you are in cruise mode.

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Could you make an estimation on how fast you're traveling in a trade lane? Just curious...

Maybe...3000? Its well over 1000, i can say that.

Cruise Mode - is that like the jump engines in Elite? And are they "mass locked" so u cant use em when other ships are about?

Using standard engines is actually from 0-80.Yeah trade lanes do look well over a 1000.


You can use the cruise engine any time you want that's if your opponent doesn't have a cruise engine disruptor though,no more hyper-afterburner for you.

Cruise engines lock your engines at about 300, which is three and 3/4 faster than normal engines. They're for traveling long distances when there are no trade lanes available or you need to escape from a bad situation.

I have to add that there is a problem with using the cruise engines for the purpose of escaping. It seems that it takes a few seconds to power them up... seconds in which you are virtually helpless because your weapons don't work as long as the powering process takes. Is it possible to abort this charging sequence or are you a sitting duck once you activated it and until the drive kicks in?

"In all likelihood you're going to die out there. We're all going to die out there, but none of us needs to be reminded of that fact. So you die, you never existed."

just presing back will disengage the powering up of your cruise engines

to correct eb: engines normaly give you a speed of 0 to 79 (80)

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You can abort. That's part of the cruise engine though. It's fast, and vulnerable to disruptors, but it's really fast for getting away. By the way, if you're doing really bad and trying to use them to get away, start dumping flares BEFORE you charge it, and keep dumping them until you are at full speed. Disruptors are had to fool.