Engines

[SamZaWild]

Nice ideas fellas.What about being able to "over load" the engine....like the engine will give you an extra boost and go very fast but the catch is the engine will be suvearly damaged or even destroyed.

[Ed Kolis]

There are a few "destroyed on use" abilities... don't think any of them give extra bursts of speed, but there *are* ones for extra shields and extra weapons energy, so you can give your engine one or both of those abilities so you can "Divert full power to shields!"

[SamZaWild]

Really?I didn't know that...

Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
so you can "Divert full power to shields!"

Yeah,this would be great.Always wonderd what to do with the extra power? Muaahhahahhahhaaaa

[Phoenix-D]

If you do that you just have to be -really- careful of where you right click in the ship interface. Don't want to trigger your engine at the wrong time.

[SamZaWild]

So there really is an ability like this.To use it i have to right click ( amm what,shields,armors and engines? )

So it would be in ship interface window, haa? Wouldn't that jettison the object?

[Exan]

If that would only destroy the engines then that would be perfect because it gives the crew something to do. (repairs)

I like turning, acceleration idea. By the way, does the game have a cloaking device? It does have tachyon sensors but do they actually have any use?

[Phoenix-D]

No, the tacyon sensors don't have any use. MM was going to add cloaking and a lot of other things but apparently those plans fell through.

If you use a "destroyed on use" component, it isn't just destroyed- it vanishes. No repairs possible.