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asguard101
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 11:25 am    Post subject: Turn modes Reply with quote

I have a question on Turn Modes.

If a ship has a Speed of 0 does it have a turn mode?

and

If a ship uses Acel or Decel does this change a ships Turn mode any?
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pinecone
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 1:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 4:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 10:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 12:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 12:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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