Flight Control
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 8:51 am
First off let me say, Thank You.
Bringing back this classic game, that kept me up for nights playing, was fantastic of you.
So far, I am just getting started but immediately noticed that the flight of the ship was wrong. In the old game, and in your tutorial, the ship should coast with short burst to move it along.
Is there a way to tweak the source to ensure the speed variable doesn't degrade instantly but over time? ie, hold direction key, burst to speed, coast, slowly loose momentum, hit key again.
This would allow your fuel to go farther and be in keeping with the original game. We all know there is no resistance in space so you theoretically could burst and maintain that momentum
indefinitely, and would require breaking thrusters to slow or stop yourself. In the first game you could do this and had to turn about and thrust back the way you came to stop.
Maybe you intended the fuel to rapidly vanish thus creating a need to haul around 20-40 endurium fuel.
As it stands right now I am still very happy to be playing this game, so once again, Thank you.
Bringing back this classic game, that kept me up for nights playing, was fantastic of you.
So far, I am just getting started but immediately noticed that the flight of the ship was wrong. In the old game, and in your tutorial, the ship should coast with short burst to move it along.
Is there a way to tweak the source to ensure the speed variable doesn't degrade instantly but over time? ie, hold direction key, burst to speed, coast, slowly loose momentum, hit key again.
This would allow your fuel to go farther and be in keeping with the original game. We all know there is no resistance in space so you theoretically could burst and maintain that momentum
indefinitely, and would require breaking thrusters to slow or stop yourself. In the first game you could do this and had to turn about and thrust back the way you came to stop.
Maybe you intended the fuel to rapidly vanish thus creating a need to haul around 20-40 endurium fuel.
As it stands right now I am still very happy to be playing this game, so once again, Thank you.