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Author Topic: Asteroid Belts and Smuggling and Sensor Profile  (Read 1353 times)

Goumindong

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Asteroid Belts and Smuggling and Sensor Profile
« on: May 11, 2019, 08:23:43 PM »

So i was flying around today and PING off i go hitting an asteroid and it slowed me down and it was annoying.

So i thought to myself. You know what would be neat. If asteroid belts, instead of only giving you a bonus to sensor profile when you're stationary, gave you that bonus when you were moving that would make it really interesting to use them to sneak around. But then you would just burn through them all the time...

Unless, when you hit an asteroid, or other debris object your sensor profile spiked to maximum due to the disruption in the drive bubble and the obvious event that happened. (or spiked based on the speed you were traveling)

This way you can still speed limit asteroid and debris fields, and they're a hazard you may actually consider modifying your flight for.

Plus you can then more reliably use asteroid fields in order to sneak onto planets
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TrashMan

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Re: Asteroid Belts and Smuggling and Sensor Profile
« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2019, 01:36:17 AM »

They can hide you, but you better move slow? I like it.

That, or asteroid impacts can really hurt.
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