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Fuel Consumption - Theorycraft!
Gregg Johnson
Posts: 263
2/13/2015
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Shadow wrote:
Might be Captain Obvious here, but a little tidbit: it seems to be as you say, but reverse speed additionally goes through the ShipReversePenalty multiplier (0.5), which means half reverse equals a hypothetical quarter forward speed, and full reverse is half speed.
Fuel usage is the same, though. That penalty just affects speed, as far as I can tell.
Frenzgyn wrote:
MAYBE (just maybe) ship weight is taken into account with acceleration... but i have no value to say that...
Of course, this is just speculation... can you find any correlation with your existing data?
I... I think the larger engines improve acceleration somewhat? But not enough? I noticed they seem to take longer to get up to full speed than the weaker engines do, so that over shorter runs the 2-speed time was more than half the 1-speed time. Sir Frederick did an experiment a little while ago, which (to me) also seemed to indicate that yes, the more powerful engines take a little longer to max out (see the Guest post below his, or look at the videos and draw your own conclusions). But it's really hard to measure that exactly...
edited by Olorin on 2/13/2015
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Guest
2/14/2015
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Does that mean larger engines does not necessarily provide better maximum speed ?
I'm thinking about buying the Boadicea at the moment because I had assumed it means I will move around twice as fast which will alleviate some of the tedium when trying to raise money.
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Gregg Johnson
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2/14/2015
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They always provide better maximum speed, but nowhere near twice as fast. To move twice the speed of the 800 power starting engine you need about 5000 power, not 1500.
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