Speed-matching cruise control

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Speed-matching cruise control

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How hard would it be to make a speed-matching "cruise control" for following either prey or ships to escort at a constant distance? Really useful for following prey, particularly when your lasers are hot...
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Considering that speed is read only, quite difficult...

One thing you should be able to do is to add a way to say 'up a bit, down a bit... Ok perfect' to the HUD, just below the reticle, using a similar display method used by the bounty scanner...

And you can use ascii's 'graphics mode', like in the following examples:

a bit too slow...
..|>.<...

way too fast...
...>.<..|


perfick! ;)
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