Pilot Archive
Thread: Darn Emergency Thrust
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EnZoFiRe
Fri Feb 11, 2005 2:07 pm
#1
Shades of EQ and the "invisibility" and "fiegn death" commands. I think if you have a skill, it should work more times than not. I have only used ethrust once for much the same reason.
TomoRainer
Fri Feb 11, 2005 3:32 pm
#2
Whether ethrust works depends heavily on your skill mod for pilot commands. It failed for me on a pretty regular basis when I was on tier 1 and 2, but by the time I made master, it wasn't failing at all.
Of course, it ends up resetting your droid commands, and as ethrust tends to add less speed than EO3 on a nice engine, that means it's eminently useless. A situation that should probably be looked at by the devs.
Of course, it ends up resetting your droid commands, and as ethrust tends to add less speed than EO3 on a nice engine, that means it's eminently useless. A situation that should probably be looked at by the devs.
Flippant_NE
Fri Feb 11, 2005 3:44 pm
#3
To get ethrust working you need plenty of spare reactor capacity, use reactor overcharge first and see how you get on.
WornTraveler
Sat Feb 12, 2005 1:38 am
#4
I was in my Kimogila the other day, and bit off a bit more than I kid chew. I managed to take out a fewbig guntoting guys before they launched missles. I lauched a few countermeasures and boosted outta there quick as I could, and thought "Hey- I can finally use that ethrust command". I tried it, and got a reactor scram or some darn thing like that. The ship stopped moving, and I got blown to bits. And at the ridiculous rate my ship chassis is decaying, she only has about ten destructions left, and she's nearly brand new.
Anyways, after I repaired I spenttwo hours testing out the ethrust command. Odds are, four out of every twenty one tries, you will be successful. I am never using that command again, obviously.
WornTraveler
Sun Feb 13, 2005 9:47 am
#5
I used the reactor overcharge and got it to work pretty much everytime. I still aint gonna use it, however, until I am certain that if I don't I am going to get fried. It really is heartbreaking to see your chassis take a hit. I used in once in combat, when I declared Imperial in space and got attacked by a bunch of tier one Headhunters while I was doing a Freelancer Mission. My engine took a hit, and at that point it was all or nothing, so I used the command. It worked very well.
However, now another question arises. If I use the thrust and boosters at teh same time, I am assuming that the boosters add to whatever speed I am going at the moment, and do not simply bring up my speed to a certain point, like speed 60 lets say, no matter how fast I was going before. OF course, I can't be sure, so is using teh thrust and boosters more effctive than boosters, or is it basically the same.
Nicolas_Frost
Mon Feb 14, 2005 7:24 am
#7
Boosters and /ethrust are mutually exclusive. One cannot be used in conjunction with the other.
DrakoonShao
Mon Feb 14, 2005 12:13 pm
#8
Nicolas_Frost wrote:
Boosters and /ethrust are mutually exclusive. One cannot be used in conjunction with the other.
/ethrust also cancels out engine overload in my experience. From a speed point, it equals about the same as Engine Overload 3 in my tests. It also pulls the same amount of energy from the reactor (often disabling parts or if you still don't have enough energy, makes you go boom)
Gekok
Tue Feb 15, 2005 1:00 am
#9
This is standard op for me as well (and I'm halfway through tier 3). Everytime I use e-thrust I get the killed because everything gets turned off.
Justarous
Tue Feb 15, 2005 1:08 am
#10
Nicolas_Frost wrote:
Boosters and /ethrust are mutually exclusive. One cannot be used in conjunction with the other.
I use ethrust when traveling back to the station, (i'm only 2121), that way if i scram, i'm not dead. But for the above post, my ship at full spped move at about 585, when i boost i get 780, now when i ethrust, at full speed i go at about 790, then hit my boosters adn iget in to the 900's. So you CAN use them both together, i would just hit ethurst first, then the boosters. I've found that when i'm boosting, then ethrust, i scram every time, but that may just be my crappy parts 
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