Tradelane Offline Time

[Derkylos]

There's one thing nobody mentioned here.

You don't have to wait for the lane ring to come back up. You can cruise to the next.

Even now with the 30sec offline time it's a good thing to do. If you know that it won't come back sooner than 30 seconds. What distance can you travel on cruise in half a minute? 5 seconds to charge cruise and get up to speed and if I use 300mps as the average speed (not top 350), I'm still getting 300mps * 25s = 7.5K

And you can notice that the lane rings are 6-7K from the next. So if you cruise, You'll enter the lane at the same time as the person who sits and waits. The difference? 7K head-start. And that works even now. 60sec downtime won't affect this in any way.

Actually, if you are dropped from the lane, there is a high probability that you will not have to wait the full 30 seconds for it to come back up.

As a pirate/policeman chasing a trader/smuggler, NPC disruptions are a godsend, as the trader will either have to wait to redock, in whic case, I keep the lane down, or cruise to the next lane, in which case, I wait to dock, knowing that I will be able to overtake him and catch him at the next exit...

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