Good idea!
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Speed limit is way to low and unfair
- Thread starter Nyres
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For the pilots who seem to crash into every ship on the way to the station, like the drunk in the line at the post office. You have two options.
1) Fly at 100 m/s - It takes 40 seconds to clear the no fire zone, alt tab and like some kitten movies or something.
2) But a docking computer and use it. It's more than likely a better pilot anyway.
The rest of us will continue to fly as normal while paying attention, and not crashing into things.
1) Fly at 100 m/s - It takes 40 seconds to clear the no fire zone, alt tab and like some kitten movies or something.
2) But a docking computer and use it. It's more than likely a better pilot anyway.
The rest of us will continue to fly as normal while paying attention, and not crashing into things.
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I'm in a Conda and I regularly boost through the letterbox, sometimes from well within the station. Speeding changes nothing for me. Whatever flies in the way will fly in the way.
that is garbage, you only get a bounty if you destroy a ship, you get a fine if you hit someone but not a bounty unless you destroy their ship while you are 'speeding'
Lol, the only people who even notice a speed limit are those who can't fly, I've been in since Alpha almost always fly in full speed and use boost on the way out and still manage to avoid everything.
Hate to think how you guys are managing combat with what appears to be all control over your direction???
Hate to think how you guys are managing combat with what appears to be all control over your direction???
The speed limit is unfair because of players ramming CMDR Braben - he was all too aware of the affect on players in station, as you'll see 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E267qO6Bv64
:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E267qO6Bv64
I support this change - I think the speed "limit" applying only when something bad happens was a good idea.
I fly a Cobra and if there's other traffic, I do approach and enter the station at under 100.
My experience has been the opposite; the no fire zone ends first, then mass lock goes away a moment later. Perhaps it varies from station to station?
I fly a Cobra and if there's other traffic, I do approach and enter the station at under 100.
My experience has been the opposite; the no fire zone ends first, then mass lock goes away a moment later. Perhaps it varies from station to station?
There really is no problem.
I still boost away when I am outside the station. In general there is more than enough room and very little danger of hitting another ship.
I do it at my own risk of course and that is how it should be.
It´s not a full week. Read the changelog.
It is simple go under speed limit and charge FSD and go to full throttle when charged.. the speed limit is fine and makes people be more careful
What a load of tosh. The speed limit is low enough that you will not destroy some one's ship on impact so that resolves the constant whining about "Cmdr blahblah rammed me and blew up my nice shiny ship around a station". ie If you go above the limit and impact another ship you get a fine. This also means players doing it on purpose will end up with issues (which they didn't get prior to 1.3).
Most No Fire Zones (but not all) match the Mass Lock range - it is very rare you can SC or Hyperspace while still in the No Fire Zone + most of the time you can boost as soon as you are out of the entrance.
You do not get any kind of penalty at all for speeding (only a warning indicator that you are speeding). I have not yet left or entered the no fire zone without speeding at some point and have yet to make contact with any other ships (through the whole of beta and into release).
Just be careful where you do it. It doesn't take me any longer to leave or land than it did before the speed mechanic except in very busy stations where I am more careful when near other ships.
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The new ramming trick is using a sidewinder and suiciding into anybody moving faster than continental drift. The station lasers then blow the victim up.
This wouldn't be an issue of the speeding threshold were raised to a more reasonable 200
This "trick" can easily be prevented by flying below the threshold whenever you see some player controlled Sidewinder suspiciously moving in your direction / flight path.
Increasing the threshold to 200 m/s would nullify the whole reason of the speed limit, since severely damaging or destroying other ships by ramming into them with speeds of 180 m/s is very easy (which would then go unpunished)
The system is fine as it is. It serves its purpose and works as intended. Being careful when flying around stations is not asked too much from anyone!
You can t-bone haulers with an anaconda at 200 and they will survive just fine.
Hull damage doesn't matter since repairing your ship is as easy as filling up the gas tank.
The rabid defense of the arbitrarily chosen 100 value is hilarious. Would you all be so adamant if fdev had initially chosen 50 instead? The docking computer docks faster than 100. We shouldn't need a special exemption for docking computers, we should just raise the threshold.
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Lol, maybe it doesn't matter to you, but don't impose your indifference onto others, please!
Lol, maybe it doesn't matter to you, but don't impose your indifference onto others, please!
What is do special about the arbitrary 100 value? It was pulled out of thin air. Many who bother to comply with it find it agonizingly slow.
It also does nothing to stop ramming. You can spend a short time trading or bounty hunting to finance an afternoon of ramming.
Yeah, you don't get pulled over for speeding. It's just letting you know any bump through the mail slot while Speeding will cost you.