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Tsanse Kinske
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Posted - 2008.04.16 17:17:00 -
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Originally by: Tarminic
Overdrives increase your base speed, but don't improve your agility in any way. As such your ship will be faster but it's acceleration time and turning radius will be worse off as a result.
With Overdrives acceleration time wouldn't increase. You can say it either stays the same or that it decreases, depending on what you're looking at...
Acceleration time to any percentage of your max velocity stays the same. Therefor the time to get to any specific integer speed between 0 and max decreases.
So align time remains the same since it's a percentage of your current maximum. Time to go from 0 - 500 m/s if your new maximum goes from 800 to 1000m/s decreases. |
Tsanse Kinske
WeMeanYouKnowHarm
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Posted - 2008.04.16 17:23:00 -
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Originally by: Shar Tegral
Inertial Stabilizers = Agility Overdrives = Velocity (Maximum) Nanofibers = Acceleration (Rate of)
Fairly easy.
Very easy, but also wrong, or incomplete.:)
Istabs: agility. Improves nimbleness and acceleration.
Nanos: mass. Same effects as istabs for a given percentage bonus. (But istab bonuses are higher overall) Also improves your maximum velocity when you have a propulsion mod activated.
Overdrives: Improves maximum velocity, propulsed or not. Also can be said to improve acceleration in a way. (See above post for how.) |
Tsanse Kinske
WeMeanYouKnowHarm
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Posted - 2008.04.16 19:22:00 -
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Originally by: Shin Wha Edited by: Shin Wha on 16/04/2008 19:07:01 Also know that when it comes to small class ships, be sure to check their weight before even thinking of applying anything regarding nanos. Frigates and other small craft suffer more from agility then they do from weight.
An example is that the crow weighs light as a feather, but its base agility is like what 3.2? That horrible. So knowing that information, you should know its weight is not a problem, but its agility.
It doesn't matter. Mass * Agility = "Nimbleness". Reduce Mass by 10% or Agility by 10%, you get the same result either way.
So you just have to look at three questions when deciding whether to go after one or the other:
1. Do you need the additional advantage to propulsed speed that reducing mass gives you?
2. What bonuses can you get? For instance, istabs offer bigger bonuses and thus a bigger gain to nimbleness than nanofibers do.
3. What other modules or rigs are you going to be stacking? A couple of nanofibers might seem like a good idea, but if you're fitting polycarbons in your rig slots, there's a good chance you'd be better off with istabs or something else entirely.
By the way, I don't fly the Crow, but unless it's a Rocket fit, I don't think getting your max velocity orbit down that low should be a very big concern. The agility would still be nice to have for other reasons though. |
Tsanse Kinske
WeMeanYouKnowHarm
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Posted - 2008.04.16 19:25:00 -
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Originally by: Alowishus
Originally by: Tsanse Kinske Istabs: agility. Improves nimbleness and acceleration.
False.
And fail.
Jeeze Alowishus, I normally find your posts so smart. I'm going to have to side with the facts on this one. |
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