Noob question: engines

KaosProphet · Post by **KaosProphet** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 2:29 am

Sorry if this is answered elsewhere, took a look and didn't see anything so I might have missed it.

It seems engines affect your top speed, but not your rate of acceleration. (Mil vs civ aside.) On a light frame, with IDS multipliers I can fairly easily get a speed around 2500 with just the basic engine in IDS mode, which seems more than fast enough for most situations where I'd be using IDS over inertial or jumps.

Question 1:
I presume larger hulls would require bigger engines to keep up with the same top-speed. Is this assumption true?

Question 2: Other than possibly keeping up with hull-size (if earlier presumption is true), is there any other value to upgrading engines?

MiaZ · Post by **MiaZ** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 8:27 am

Question 1: True

Question 2: Personally in my opinion, its better to use your construction points on other things, like wings or shields.

Post by **DaveK** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 9:11 am

If Class 1 engine's top speed multiplied by 5 (from IDS multiplier) is enough for you then don't waste construction points on a bigger engine - they were created before the IDS multiplier was "invented"

Welcome to the game and to the forum!

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 4:07 pm

Hi KaosProphet, welcome to the game and forum!.....Hope to see you out there some time!.....

Austin · Post by **Austin** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:18 pm

Welcome to the Evochron Universe

KaosProphet · Post by **KaosProphet** » Wed Apr 18, 2012 8:28 pm

From post: 135235, Topic: tid=9208, author=DaveK wrote:If Class 1 engine's top speed multiplied by 5 (from IDS multiplier) is enough for you then don't waste construction points on a bigger engine - they were created before the IDS multiplier was "invented"

Welcome to the game and to the forum!

That explains a lot, actually.

And thanks, all, for the welcome.