[EXPERIMENT]glide speed/strafe speed editing

[KaZTek]

I've been playing around with the three variables I found in Globals.pck, namely:

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SG_MAXSTRAFEFACTOR_SMALLSHIP;49152;
SG_MAXSTRAFEFACTOR_BIGSHIP;26214;
SG_MAXGLIDESPEED;100;

Apparently, changes to any of these dont garner much at all. I'm intending to remove the "slippery" slides as my AI pilots tend to slide themselves into a fatal collision. Without such slippery sliding all over the place, I'd have less losses on both my ships and on my own reloads.

Has anyone had any success?

[s9ilent]

Sliding is a result of acceleration.

Because I don't want to repeat what I've said for like the 100th time on various "... Newtonian physics..." discussions, in short, its because acceleration is relatively low for its speed (and possibly its turning too).

Strafing is not a factor

[KaZTek]

So basically, its all in the acceleration? That kinda doesnt make sense. I just tested over-doing acceleration and I still get sliding AI ships. In fact, when they stop, they actually stop so hard they fly backwards.

I guess the default sliding/floating of ships is basically uneditable at this stage?

[s9ilent]

Sliding is a result of a momentum, from a change of direction.

e.g. if you went from right t left, then suddenly turned down

i.e. if you where FACING like this

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The actual path would look like this

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By increasing acceleration, it pulls a sharper turn.

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Thus less gliding.


This is because, ships ALWAYS ALWAYS and I mean always (as in not never) tend towards the forward face, and their set acceleration. Rail hail or shine, or facing side ways engines on or off, they will acceleration/decelerate with the same constant factor.