Version: 2.0
Date: 08.10.2006
Scripter: Cycrow
- Overview:
This script adds two available upgrades for your ship.
The MK1 Afterburner: Allows a small ship to travel faster while its activated.
The Mk2 Afterburner: Allows a capitol class ship (TL/M2/M1) to travel faster while its activated.
The MK1 won't work on the capitol ships, and the MK2 wont work on small class ships.
Using Afterburner:
To use the afterburner, you must first purchase the upgrade, available from Split Equipment Docks.
With this installed, you then use an assigned hotkey to turn on and turn off the Afterburner.
The hotkey must be assigned before you can use it.
Pressing the hotkey once will activate it, and pressing it again will turn it off.
Assigning Hotkey:
In the controls options, you goto the interface tab, and near the bottom you will find a section called extensions.
The hotkey for Afterburn will be in this section, just assign a key to it like you would any other control.
There are 2 hotkeys to assign, manual, and auto afterburner.
The manual Afterburner you have to manually increase the speed.
Energy Required:
MK1 Afterburner:
The Afterburner requires 5 energy cells to start up and 1 every few seconds to keep running.
The Afterburner will only activate if theres at least 10 energy cells in the cargo hold.
It will also work with just 1 spacefly, the spacefly will power up the Afterburner as well as maintain it so no additional energy is required.
MK2 Afterburner:
The MK2 requires 50 energy cells to start up and uses 5 every few seconds to keep running.
The MK2 will only activate if theres at least 100 energy cells available.
The MK2 can also use spaceflies, but requires 5 to activate, and doesn't require any additional energy to run.
- if no energy is available, it will divert your shields energy into the afterburner to use.
- The Afterburn will not engage if your too close to a station.
- The Afterburner will deactivate after a certain time of use. It can be reactivated again straight away at the cost of an additional start up energy cells.