Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 1:03 pm
Compellor wrote:QUOTE (Compellor @ Jun 12 2009, 02:48 AM) This is incredibly unimportant,...
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Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 2:17 pm
I park on a hardstanding and drive on a carriageway.
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Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 2:33 pm
I see no problem with the current system. It's been like thi for years and no one has complained.
The GT rockets don't acelerate because if they exceed a certain speed then they cause crashes. If they launched slow enough so that they could accelerate then you could never hit anyhting that was moving + you couldn't have the aiming/targeting device.
rix + TF have to have their missiles as "Projectiles" because they don't have missiles or torpedos.
The GT rockets don't acelerate because if they exceed a certain speed then they cause crashes. If they launched slow enough so that they could accelerate then you could never hit anyhting that was moving + you couldn't have the aiming/targeting device.
rix + TF have to have their missiles as "Projectiles" because they don't have missiles or torpedos.
Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 4:04 am
Why do we cook bacon but bake cookies?
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 12:01 am
They are like good ol' Carl Gustavmadpeople wrote:QUOTE (madpeople @ Jun 12 2009, 05:33 PM) The GT rockets don't acelerate because if they exceed a certain speed then they cause crashes.
Here's some action.
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 1:30 am
But that's a recoilless rifle! A rocket would be like the M72 LAW.
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 11:14 am
Carl Gustav works like GT rockets?!Adept wrote:QUOTE (Adept @ Jun 14 2009, 02:01 AM)They are like good ol' Carl Gustavmadpeople wrote:QUOTE (madpeople @ Jun 12 2009, 04:33 PM)
The GT rockets don't acelerate because if they exceed a certain speed then they cause crashes.
Here's some action.
Carl Gustav ejects the spinning round and starts the rocket engine...
There is acceleration.
Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 7:42 am
I was under the impression that it was a launch speed (relative to the grid, so add your ship's velocity) greater than 1000 m/s that caused crashes. I thought excessive speed due to acceleration only caused tracking issues. I agree they'd be tough to aim otherwise, and since I'd only ever used them once and not really known what I was doing, I just assumed they were mostly useless unless you had lots of practice with them.madpeople wrote:QUOTE (madpeople @ Jun 12 2009, 10:33 AM) The GT rockets don't acelerate because if they exceed a certain speed then they cause crashes. If they launched slow enough so that they could accelerate then you could never hit anyhting that was moving + you couldn't have the aiming/targeting device.
QUOTE I see no problem with the current system. It's been like thi for years and no one has complained.[/quote]I only brought it up because I found it sufficiently non-intuitive that I had failed to understand how some things worked until I looked them up in ICE. Not really significant enough to be worth changing, I agree now.
Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 5:39 pm
Launch velocity must not exceed 999 mps.
However, you can have the top speed of the missile be whatever you please - I made and tested a missile that accelerates at the speed of light for 110 seconds.... After a bit, the speed exceeds what Alleg can list (A bit after the distance does as well), but alleg didn't crash.
However, with a rocket, you don't want it to track. And if a missile has acceleration, then it can track.
However, you can have the top speed of the missile be whatever you please - I made and tested a missile that accelerates at the speed of light for 110 seconds.... After a bit, the speed exceeds what Alleg can list (A bit after the distance does as well), but alleg didn't crash.
However, with a rocket, you don't want it to track. And if a missile has acceleration, then it can track.
Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 5:53 pm
Eh? It can't track if you set the turn radius to zero, can it? I didn't think missiles could sidethrust.