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Frame rate no longer affecting ship turning?
Rocket Heeled Jack
Posts: 311
3/8/2015
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Either that, or my frigate just mystically acquired the ability to pull donuts in the middle of the ocean...
Very strange, not entirely sure I like it, it's possible to speed slalom archipelagoes while on full overdrive, whereas previously you had to slow down to avoid crunching into things, a move that's far more accurate for sailing and keeps the feel of the game like you're actually sailing, rather than driving on the sea...
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MisterGone
Posts: 139
3/8/2015
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Because I'm your standard Monday-Morning-Quarterback (dunno what the UK version of this is, football Club Manager on the day after a match, which I don't know the standard day of the week actually is?) when it comes to game design, I'd say that what I expected was that turning would be the thing most affected by ship weight. In fact, with the frame dropping previously, I thought that this was how the game functioned. Now that it's fixed, I'm wishing for the bug to come back, or for the system I thought was happening to actually happen.
So that turning would sort of have a lag time to it, where you could only turn at full speed when moving forward at full speed, and basically, rate of turning speed would be = to rate of forward speed. Since, theoretically this means that larger ships have a slower rate by which they gain speed compared to lighter ships, this would mean it would take longer before they could turn more nimbly.
That said, the acceleration effect on weight also needs to be made more extreme (IMO) because I don't think it's noticeable at all right now. It seems like it takes, maybe 2 seconds once you hit max power before you get up to full speed, and that's just so subtle that it's practically invisible. But that's another issue from turning.
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