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There is no reverse-thruster firing, Turkey is correct. Thrusters only fire to establish your requested velocity, not when you exceed maximum speed. Drag is a function of ships maximum thrust (which is equal to the forward thrust). Drag is always applied in the opposite direction to your velocity, and is equal to your thrust when you reach the rated maximum speed. Therefore, if you exceed this speed, it slows you down.

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After being rammed, hold on the thrust forward key to stop your ship from automatically using it's side thrusters to correct your vector to the center of the screen. Using side-thrusters = slowing down to normal top speed faster.

Spunkmeyer wrote:QUOTE (Spunkmeyer @ Aug 17 2012, 09:28 AM) Thrusters only fire to establish your requested velocity, not when you exceed maximum speed.

Its called a vector, Victor!

Hellsyng wrote:QUOTE (Hellsyng @ Aug 16 2012, 09:26 PM) Bomber pilots pressing forwards thrust does nothing, I'll go find the thread where they tested it if I have to, the only thing it does is keep your momentum going forward in case you get a bad ram (that tries to make you go sideways a little).

Even if you have a perfect ram you should press forward thrust, because if you turn (and you always turn a tiny bit unless you turn off the mouse) you also will lose speed to the sidethrusters. (Sidethrusters firing means less power on forward thrust means slowing down)

The backthruster only fires to slow you down if your thrust is set to less than 100%, if it is at 100% it doesnt. So if you are in the danger of overboosting reduce your thrust value to slow down faster. Like with cars in real life you get to your target quicker if you actually hit the brakes instead of slowing down by yourself but you also use more fuel. Choose wisely

To test just start a game, fly something that can boost and dont forget turn off virtual joystick so you go straight while boosting. Remember that while you press the boost key (even while reloading fuel) it acts like hitting your forward thruster too.


-> It never hurts to hit forward thrust if you want maximum speed, it just doesnt always help.

Vortrog wrote:QUOTE (Vortrog @ Aug 16 2012, 06:57 PM) Its called a vector, Victor!

Velocity is a vector.

Spunkmeyer wrote:QUOTE (Spunkmeyer @ Aug 17 2012, 02:56 PM) Velocityraptor.

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