Question about Max Boost v6 [solved]

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dayang
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Question about Max Boost v6 [solved]

Post by dayang »

I'm looking at calculating the Max Boost Speed.

I'm taking at Elite Sentinel from the Antigone Shipyard and applying the "High Preset', which gives it the Combat Mk3 engine.

The Mk3 Combat Engine (ARG) comes with 4488 m/s Boost Thrust according to the encyclopedia. The formula appears to the same for max speed.

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Max Boost Speed = Max Boost Thrust / Drag
But I'm getting two different results, this appears to be due to Drag.

The Ship Statistics in the build screen tells me that the Mk3 gives me 236 m/s speed and 1,884 m/s boost speed. So I refactor to solve for drag.

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Max Thrust (561 kN) / Max Speed (236 m/s) = 2.377118644
Max Boost Thrust (4488 kN) / Max Boost Speed (1884 m/s) = 2.382165605
O___o

As you can see the Drag factor for each doesn't appear to match, it's close I'm clearly missing something. Could anyone point me in the right direction?
Last edited by dayang on Sat, 3. Aug 24, 00:29, edited 1 time in total.
dayang
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Re: Question about Max Boost v6

Post by dayang »

Found it.

Speed (m/s) on the Ship Statistics screen is rounded to the nearest whole number. The top speed should be 235.5 m/s, but it's rounded up to 236 causing the discrepancy. Solved this after comparing Boost Speed and Travel Speed against Speed against the two different drag factors.

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