Afterburner drive

DORN · Post by **DORN** » Sun Feb 03, 2013 6:47 pm

Any opinions on whether it is useful?

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Sun Feb 03, 2013 7:24 pm

It can be usefull only in very limited situations, otherwise prety useless imho!....

DORN · Post by **DORN** » Sun Feb 03, 2013 7:37 pm

And what would those limited situations be?

Cargo · Post by **Cargo** » Sun Feb 03, 2013 7:48 pm

Yeah, the AB drive stinks. Its uses your weapon energy so after your burn, you are unable to fight or jump.

Zach · Post by **Zach** » Sun Feb 03, 2013 8:26 pm

I am not a fan of it either. imho it should only kick in if you have depleted your fuel reserves and are in an emergency.

I dunno.. I think energy drain is general is just too darn fast for anything useful. It would be nice if we could buy upgraded power sources / drive cores or w/e you want to call them.

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Sun Feb 03, 2013 8:30 pm

From post: 157904, Topic: tid=10552, author=DORN wrote:And what would those limited situations be?

Lets just say it is not usefull in combat.
As a trader it might be usefull to save some time or get out of a sticky situation in a hostile system!.....

DORN · Post by **DORN** » Sun Feb 03, 2013 9:58 pm

What I noticed is that even if it gets me up and going away from hostiles, I don't have any energy to do a jump. And there you are...

with a missile coming up your......