Reasons to KEEP the cruise change

[Ozuse]

If FTL speed in freelancer is marked at 1000u/s, since tradelanes go that fast and thiose are FTL, 350u/s is 35% the speed of light. Does anyone but me think that you would need a lot of power to maintain that?

-Ok your right that does take a lot of power but consider this. 800+ years prior to when the game begins with Edison trent the old Alliance has the technology to jump across the solar system first with short range jumps and later with on-board worm hole creating technology... From just a fighter. I recall some analogy from a cosmology professor who stated that if you could take all the mass that makes up the planet Neptune and somehow converted it into energy you could create some ridiculously small wormhole considering all the energy you put into it. So lets assume that the people of Sirius do not have much energy concerns. I for one find that a lot of the technology Sirius utilizes is quite primitive considering the technology of its former glory. Wats max impulse speed now? 80 M/S or K/S (meters or kilometers per second) So starlancer ends with a prototype LF that has an impulse speed of 400 kps. Utilizing afterburner (and draining special fuel) the Shroud had a maximum velocity of 800 kilometers per second. With that kind of speed you could circle the earth in approximately 33 seconds If it could fly in atmo it could decimate a city just by the wind suction force that came in its wake.
Anyways my point is yes your the only one who thinks cruise engines take up tons of energy.

Even if you get CDed by some NPCs (or a pirate, i suppose) you can use your THRUSTER (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thruster) to survive until you get power back. Also, you have a massive armada of bots and bats.

Anything big-ish besides agile gunboats gets to afterburner around at 139, we don't like it and we aren't very maneuverable and we think its ridiculous when we cant get away from npc's. Also we don't have a massive armada of bats, maybe we kinda do with bots but the bats go away for me after 2 recharges and the second isn't even all the way. Plus we're talking only being able to traval at 139 thats not to fast to hope you can find somewhere to dock or jump out of system especially when u've got loads of npc's swarming in out of no where and you can't get them to stop shooting CD's.
As far as pirate players (and law enforcement), they don't let you get away unless they run out off CD ammo.

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