Turn modes

asguard101 · Post by **asguard101** » Fri Aug 07, 2009 11:25 am

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?

pinecone · Post by **pinecone** » Fri Aug 07, 2009 1:55 pm

A ship with speed zero has a turn mode of 1.

Accel/Decel work towards completing the turn mode, but don't change it.

mjwest · Post by **mjwest** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 4:31 pm

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.

asguard101 · Post by **asguard101** » Sun Aug 09, 2009 10:49 pm

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?

Bolo_MK_XL · Post by **Bolo_MK_XL** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 12:27 am

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 ---

mjwest · Post by **mjwest** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 12:52 am

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.