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asguard101 Lieutenant SG
Joined: 20 Jul 2008 Posts: 170 Location: Florida
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Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 11:25 am Post subject: Turn modes |
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I have a question on Turn Modes.
If a ship has a Speed of 0 does it have a turn mode?
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If a ship uses Acel or Decel does this change a ships Turn mode any? |
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pinecone Fleet Captain
Joined: 03 May 2008 Posts: 1862 Location: Earth
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Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 1:55 pm Post subject: |
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A ship with speed zero has a turn mode of 1.
Accel/Decel work towards completing the turn mode, but don't change it. |
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mjwest Commodore
Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Posts: 4094 Location: Dallas, Texas
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Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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Piney is absolutely correct. All ships have a turn mode of 1 at Speed 0. This can be quite handy for large, lumbering ships that can afford to go slow for a turn, but need to change direction reasonably quickly. _________________
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asguard101 Lieutenant SG
Joined: 20 Jul 2008 Posts: 170 Location: Florida
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Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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ok, follow up question if you are going speed zero and use acceleration can you choose to move backwards? and if you can / do are yuo able on a different suppulse accelerate forward? |
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Bolo_MK_XL Captain
Joined: 16 Jan 2007 Posts: 836 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 12:27 am Post subject: |
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To reverse you have to come to a complete stop (start turn stopped or Emergency decel) or pay a braking cost (occur before energy allocation) and do speed 0 in reverse --
If you stop you can't accelerate ---
So you have to wait till next turn to move at all --- |
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mjwest Commodore
Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Posts: 4094 Location: Dallas, Texas
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Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 12:52 am Post subject: |
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asguard101 wrote: | ok, follow up question if you are going speed zero and use acceleration can you choose to move backwards? |
Speed Zero still has a direction. By default that is forward.
As Bolo points out you can change direction if you want to go in reverse. But if you are going in reverse, you can't accelerate forward. _________________
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