How difficult would it be to make the travel drive throttle-able? My biggest issue with the game is how travel drive functions, there is no reason to not be able to control your speed in travel drive, we can see that it works when you match a targets speed. Having ships able to control travel drive speeds would allow fleets to move together, would make escort missions more enjoyable, and would allow you to fly about with your own npc squadron more effectively.
Alternatively having something like this that just gets rid of travel drive but increases max velocity to be on par with travel drive could work, although the whole point of travel drive is allowing a mode with very high acceleration, so you can get that cool "woomp" effect of a fleet of ships dropping out of travel drive on a target.
I guess the mod is shipbased and not a general overhaul, love to see an update cause when a split cruiser whizzed me by I thought they just had fast ships untill i realised the mod was not including them plus some extra factions from some other mods lol
Really? Hahaha. Are you Elite Dangerous lover maybe? Do have time for staring at the screen and waiting for hours instead of actually playing the game? Oh gosh! XD
This is quite an interesting take on things! I really liked the way things were in x2 -x3 because whats the point of having larger distances if you can get anywhere in no time. What bugs me the most is that you can just activate travelmode to escape any combat. Kinda feels like cheating to me? Would it be possible for you to add just this? That myself and other ships cant use travel mode if they are in combat or just in a certain distance of any enemy? <3
No, it stays pretty playable, but the overall progress is very slow. You need much more time to earn money and the delivery of ressources to the stations takes a greater amount of time - and so do the production. Without the travel Engine you are forced to run the game even if you are not actively playing - or run the game in the background. You have to fly a long time to reach your destination. Meanwhile you can do something else ... Space is huge ... but not endless.
And if you want to have the game faster again for some time: Just disable the mod and every ship has instantly a working Traveldrive again.
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Alternatively having something like this that just gets rid of travel drive but increases max velocity to be on par with travel drive could work, although the whole point of travel drive is allowing a mode with very high acceleration, so you can get that cool "woomp" effect of a fleet of ships dropping out of travel drive on a target.
Using this + SETA makes fleets actually work, and gives it the feel of the old X games!
And if you want to have the game faster again for some time: Just disable the mod and every ship has instantly a working Traveldrive again.