FTL Drive Suggestion

[Forsaken]

You guys already done this(the coding/testing, not the implementation)? Im new here, thats why Im asking:P.

I can think of several really good reasons why this is a bad idea. Unless someone has made a breakthrough in modding FL, cruise speed is a constant, all ships have the same effect. Thats the only way I can think of mimicking a FTL is by modding the cruise engine.

Furthermore, this is a really bad idea because it would open the door for cheaters and speed hacks, due to raising the detection threshold on your cheat protection software. I hate to be the one to be the party pooper, but I dont think this is achievable within the limits of the FL engine.

EDIT:
After my last post, I tried to think of a way to make this work and go beyond the constraints of the FL engine.

Now that I think of it, a 3rd party application way of doing it might work..

If you have a programmer on your dev team, or if you are able to contact the maker of FLHook , and modify his source code to do something like this

Make a new function where one can enter .<a command><set of coordinates> (example: .FTL 12345.45812,12345.12345,-12345.123245), and after a timer countdown, the command takes effect and beams them to that coordinate. Maybe during that time, you can have an effect tied to it (I like the Nomad Battleship cloak effect). This function would be loosely afilliated with the with the normal admin .BEAM command that comes with FLHook. Of course this will require some micromanagement on the part of the admin. Because the person who bought a FTL capable ship would have to pm the admin, and the admin would go to the FLHook control panel and rights for that character (example: setadmin Forsaken .FTL) thereby giving that character with the expensive FTL cap ship the capability to use that command.

I dunno just an idea, I really dont care for it myself, but I thought Id toss it out and see take the basic idea and make it better. 