MultiCruise Beta

@M0tah:

Flying in formation in cruise with ships that have different cruise speeds doesn’t work too well.

Unfortunately this has always been a problem in FL, multiple engine speeds break multi-ship encounters, Argh’s xml toolkit is a prime example. His modifications to engine specifics & mass broke every encounter, you know something’s wrong when you watch a transport & it’s 2 escorts take 10 minutes to go from Trenton to Newark, they keep jumping into & out of cruise.
Alcander’s hack did exactly the same (when it wasn’t locking up your PC).

The only way around this is to have the NPC’s travelling at the same speed, this means two sets of engines, one set with variable speeds for the players, and the second set left as vanilla (or slightly quicker).

Why not put a special engine with a fixed cruise speed for all the npc’s, but to keep the game balanced boost them in some other things, such as lowering the thruster consumption, etc.

EDIT: After installing the mod, how to define the cruise speed of an engine? I experimented with this a long time before so I don’t really remember.
Is it the max_cruise_speed = (value) in engine_equip.ini?

You also have to watch the values in the constant.ini.

CRUISING_SPEED = xxxx
ANOM_LIMITS_MAX_VELOCITY = xxxx

I see. How could I miss that file. :-[

Thanks M0tah !

You once again to create the miracle ! ;D

@M0tah:

I don’t think I will publicly release the source code at this time, but I am somewhat undecided on this. Thoughts?

You should definitely release the source. Enough revere engineering and someone (if not you) could figure out how to do the same with Tradelanes (idea). If nothing else, someone could figure out how to fix some of the bugs, and maybe (far shot) figure out a way to have the game balance the cruise speeds when they’re multiples. IDK, just speaking my mind…

would be cool to calculate the speed depending on the weight of the ship + cargo and the capability of the engine -> Big Heavy Freighter -> slow acceleration -> long slowdown -> not so high cruise speed

that would be really cool!

can’t you do that with mass?

so what’s the point to mass at all then?

Control handling outside of cruise.

Hi M0tah, first I must say that, this is a great work !

About the “The cruise_speed entry must be defined after nickname” mean is like bottom of entries:

[Engine]
nickname = escape_pod_engine
cruise_speed = 500 <<<< add here
ids_name = 263670
ids_info = 459728
volume = 0.000000
mass = 10

right?

…. alway happy to see those outstanding new toys pop up.

Is this available to dl anywhere as the main links don’t seem to work at the top of the post

MultiCruise

There you go

Thanks, just what i need