Interesting tradelane trick

Sat Mar 08, 2003 12:05 am by Thadlerian

I've discovered that if I follow a tradelane, exit it when there are two rings left to destination, and then re-entering, I get a nice speed boost after going through the exit near the base, flying through space in 1000 (whatever speed unit) for a second.

Now if I could do exiting and re-entering rather fast, I'd save maybe 1/2-1 minute each time

Not counting those times when I blast into the wall of the closest base at impossible speed...

Sat Mar 08, 2003 12:10 am by tasiin

I noticed this a while ago too, nice catch.

Sat Mar 08, 2003 12:36 am by Lev Arris

Another nice trick for a speed boost is this: see if you can target a far away ship (neutral or friendly) flying in the direction you wanna go. Activate the "Formation" command and you'll will notice that you are pulled to the target much faster than 300k/s in order to get in formation. When you've reached it, select free flight and repeat the maneuver if possible/necessary with another ship in range.

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