Ship and Combat balance?

JT posted:
Even in combat I tend to keep flight assist on

See that was my big gripe with EoC..I hated the onboard flight assist. I guess I spent too many all-night sessions playing Frontier/JJFFE and got used to thrusters either on or off. Flight assist always got me killed in EoC.

I almost always play this game on un-assisted flight. That's why I was bitchin' about laterals.

With accel rates at 150, set speed should be 1000 for the starting tug...and everything else should play off that.
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Hey, is there some way to engineer some sort of vector indicator within this flight model? Kinda like the cross-hatch in FFE and Terminus?

Just some indication of true direction/vector, as opposed to where the nose is pointed...while in either free-flight or LSD.

That would be very nice if it could be done. Might be possible. But only one of the coding guru's would know. I know that components of the hud can be loaded or unloaded in the flux.ini. Maybe something can be written and added to the list? Sounds difficult though.

A good idea and I wish we could do it. The problem is that we cannot read these vector properties from POG. I can see them on the debug screen, but I cannot read them.

The only solution is to calculate them on the fly. And POG is very slow for that kind of thing, because it has to be done by triangulation off other objects. So at best, the vector position would change once per second, and would always be at least two seconds behind.

Then we would need a way to display the data. I cannot add elements to the HUD, so the vector indicator would have to be a physical sim in the game. Something like a beam attached to the player ship that points in the direction of the true motion vector.

This is one of those cases where we have to accept modding EoC for what it is.

Hey, is there any way to make some of the larger asteroids targetable?

Sure. What do you have in mind?