Floozie
Minmatar
Sebiestor tribe
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Posted - 2008.08.02 14:40:00 -
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I fully endorse this. This idea rocks!
Things that make sense to me:
LAG:
The same if you start overheating your MWD, you might blow it up if you get lagged, not as bad as your whole ship, but if you want to pull silly speeds, hay thats the risks you take.
No drag in space:
To me the Vne has nothing to do with drag, or with turning corners, inertia or what ever.
Yeah yeah, in eve, if you turn off your engines you slow down, probably due to some strange effect the nebula has... BUT WHATEVER - it's not important!
Just basically imagine your engines, burning at 100% - they have stress bars / housing holding them in place and connecting them to the structure of the ship, keep in mind the engine blasting away with millions of tuns of thrust, pushing the ship infront of it. Say a Vaga with a base speed of 239 m/s
Now, replace the housing with weaker, but lighter polycarbon, replace the structure and stress connections with weaker but lighter nanofiber, overdrive the engine by installing a greater fuel injection system, tune the eninge with skillz and hack the circuitry and controlling software with implant connections, then on top of all that hot-wire the warp-drive into run-up mode so the engine is half out-of phase with reality in it's warp bubble, but the ship it's connected to is not... the engine is now producing billions of tuns of thrust,(with a warpbubble shearing streght through the internal structures) at somewhere over 4800 m/s... i.e.: well over TWENTY TIMES normal base operating levels!
The way i see it the proposal is that that there should be a limit to what the housing / structure can cope with before it starts to bend/rupture and finally (due to the engines jumping like a pnumatic drill the size of a house)it rips loose screaming through the superstructre of the ship... Don't like that image? Then how about the internal heat damage produced by an engine driving at 20x is normal maximum thrust? How long before it starts melting the structures around it?
Nothing to do with drag or intertia, just limits to stress, heat and pressure to internal componants.
Bumping:
If this is an issue, (personally I'd quite like it) then say that that the damage is only possible due to the micro warp field around the engines weakens the ships structure, so MWD has to be engaged to take damage.
Why would warping not blow the ship up?
Whilst coming out of warp the 'nebula' effect slows the whole ship down uniformly, so nothing is smashing anything else.
Or something, I'm not great at reasoning! all I think is that it would be fun and still give the oppotunity for some occasional high speeds.
PLUS RACES WOULD BE FUN :)
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