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[RELEASE] Overdrive

Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2022 12:57 pm
by Reval
[RELEASE] Overdrive 1.4


FE Shipyards

FE Shipyards will re-route part of your Jump circuitry, linking it to your vehicle's velocity-controller.

When full speed is set, the J-drive will engage in a limited mode, similar in effect to an injector, but silent, fluid, faster, and without the attendant fuel-waste.

We call it the O-drive.

To disengage it, decelerate to below your vessel's normal top speed.

Remarks

The O-drive will disengage automatically under the following conditions:
  • Upon starting Jump-drive
  • Upon docking
  • Upon entering witchspace.
Overdrive is smoothly adjustable from lowest to highest setting using your vehicle's velocity-controller. The O-drive's range begins at your vessel's top speed and can be increased to 10 times the craft's nominal maximum speed.

Examples

Taking FE Ships as a baseline, some ascending ranges:
  • Gecko FE: O-drive velocity range: 212-2120.
  • Adder FE: O-drive velocity range: 240-2400.
  • Krait FE: O-drive velocity range: 267-2670.
  • Cobra III FE: O-drive velocity range: 267-2670.
  • Mamba FE: O-drive velocity range: 272-2720.
  • Asp II FE: O-drive velocity range: 294-2940.
  • Sidewinder FE: O-drive velocity range: 308-3080.
  • Viper II FE: O-drive velocity range: 334-3340.
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Picture: Cdr. Jinny Jameson of "Tianve's Tides" has just engaged her O-drive. The neophyte Sister's new GETter HUD speed readout shows her O-drive velocity at just above the nominal top speed of her Sidewinder FE.

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Picture: And now Jinny has pushed her Overdrive to the limit.

Overdrive is available in the Equipment section of Oolite's Expansions Manager in-game, as part of the Elite Trader Meta Package, or HERE..

Happy cruising, and don't crash into things!

Dor Reval (FE Shipyards Technical Director)
FE Shipyards is a G.E.T. wholly owned subsidiary.

Re: [RELEASE] Overdrive

Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2022 1:34 pm
by Milo
Interesting. Similar to Q-Charger.

Re: [RELEASE] Overdrive

Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2022 3:19 pm
by Reval
ahaa - thanks, I haven't seen that one... must look it up on the Wiki.

Re: [RELEASE] Overdrive

Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2022 11:53 pm
by Reval
[RELEASE] Overdrive 1.5


CHANGE
  • Fixed a serious bug in which the O-drive still got disengaged even when the equipment wasn't installed, resulting in zeroisation of the craft's maximum speed.
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