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Just made a ship with a hyperdrive speed of 100 million!

Posted: Fri May 23, 2014 11:20 am
by Osito
It is completely sick. Stupidly, stupidly sick. Crosses a 15x15 galaxy in less than a second.

RE: Just made a ship with a hyperdrive speed of 100 million!

Posted: Fri May 23, 2014 11:47 am
by Erik Rutins
Hehe, enjoy. [8D]

RE: Just made a ship with a hyperdrive speed of 100 million!

Posted: Fri May 23, 2014 5:36 pm
by ehsumrell1
Didn't see that invisible wormhole entrance did you? [:D]


RE: Just made a ship with a hyperdrive speed of 100 million!

Posted: Fri May 23, 2014 5:59 pm
by Osito
ORIGINAL: ehsumrell1

Didn't see that invisible wormhole entrance did you? [:D]


It does a pretty good simulation of a wormhole, actually. I think 200 mill would be enough. :-)

Interestingly, I couldn't get it to work in the components file. I tried increasing speed of the Gerax hyperdrive to 99000, but the game crashes, starting at a speed somewhere between 50000 and 99000 (haven't yet worked out the exact point).

But if you change one of the research improvements to the Gerax hyperdrive in the research file, you can go up to at least 100 million; I didn't find the upper limit.

Osito

RE: Just made a ship with a hyperdrive speed of 100 million!

Posted: Fri May 23, 2014 9:47 pm
by Shark7
I don't doubt that you did it......but...but...WHY?

Or are you just testing the limits?

RE: Just made a ship with a hyperdrive speed of 100 million!

Posted: Sat May 24, 2014 12:22 am
by ehsumrell1
ORIGINAL: Shark7

I don't doubt that you did it......but...but...WHY?

Or are you just testing the limits?
He needed to prototype a ship fast enough to pursue and catch DATA after a Romulan
Ale theft!

RE: Just made a ship with a hyperdrive speed of 100 million!

Posted: Sat May 24, 2014 7:22 am
by Osito
ORIGINAL: Shark7

I don't doubt that you did it......but...but...WHY?

Or are you just testing the limits?

It was partly to test the limits (which I haven't yet found), but also relates to what Ehsumrell1 said about wormholes. I quite like the idea of having an end game technology which provides instant (i.e. like a wormhole) travel anywhere. I accept the result might well be game-breaking, but I don't think that's a foregone conclusion.

And lastly, frankly I just found it awesome that you can mod the game to do that. Utterly wonderful.
ORIGINAL: ehsumrell1

ORIGINAL: Shark7

I don't doubt that you did it......but...but...WHY?

Or are you just testing the limits?
He needed to prototype a ship fast enough to pursue and catch DATA after a Romulan
Ale theft!

Now you're being silly. No way does it let you go that fast.

RE: Just made a ship with a hyperdrive speed of 100 million!

Posted: Sat May 24, 2014 10:02 am
by Solarius Scorch
Well, in the worst case you can always make a new kind of a space monster maybe: The One Who Comes Unannounced. :P

RE: Just made a ship with a hyperdrive speed of 100 million!

Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 9:02 am
by Unforeseen
It would'nt be 'game breaking' assuming your ready for the game to swiftly end, likely in favor of the race that begins use of the drive first. Strap one of these drives on a world destroyer and get to it.

RE: Just made a ship with a hyperdrive speed of 100 million!

Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 9:17 am
by Osito
Yeah, it would need to be a super late-game tech, unless you're looking for a really unbalanced game. But by that point it's often clear who is going to win, and it may be nice to just speed it up a bit.