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endless-sky / endless-sky

Space exploration, trading, and combat game.
https://endless-sky.github.io/
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Jumpdrive and Hyperdrive share the jump speed attribute #961

Closed jafdy closed 7 years ago

jafdy commented 8 years ago

Jump speed is cumulative (i think). A ship equipped with 3 jumpdrives and 1 hyperdrive can use the hyperdrive at a higher speed than a ship with one of each. I think that it is the jump speed attribute that makes this happen.

Wrzlprnft commented 8 years ago

Related to #683

jafdy commented 8 years ago

Didn't spot that. Its the fact they stack with each other that strikes me as odd.

Wrzlprnft commented 8 years ago

That's why it is no real duplicate: The other thread was about if and how (with which maths behind it) they stack, with being resolved as they stack as they are supposed to. Your position is not, why they stack, but why jumpdrives and hyperdrives not stack on their own, as opposite as together, if i got it right.

jafdy commented 8 years ago

That's about it.

Wrzlprnft commented 8 years ago

how about the scramdrive?

jafdy commented 8 years ago

No that has scram drive with a similer effect (any velocity along jump vector, limited velocity along other vectors).

Wrzlprnft commented 8 years ago

Yeah, but i wanted to know your opinion if the scramdrive should stack with the hyperdrive, but the jumpdrive not with the other two, since the topic is more about which kinds of drive should stack.

jafdy commented 8 years ago

Why ask such a hard question.

No, the hyperdrive wouldn't normally work at nearly the same speed as a scramdrive, therefor they work in a slightly different way and the gravitational waves would act in less predictable way so would be more dangerous.