Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Purpose -- sniper kites.

"Heavy Afterburners (HABs) are designed to fill the niche between standard afterburners and microwarpdrives, as well as to provide useful alternatives for destroyers and battlecruisers. HABs provide greater acceleration than their standard counterparts at the expense of agility."

There should probably be some skill (e.g., Heavy Afterburner Control) which reduces the agility penalty by something like 2.5% per level as well as possibly a skill required to use them at all. An all level-5 character with a T2 HAB would have a 5% agility penalty and able to hit around 2/3 the speed of a MWD without the signature or capacitor penalty.

All HABs have the following common attributes (T1; T2 shown in parenthesis):
SPEED +137.5% (+157.5%)
AGILITY +25% (+17.5%)

3MN "Heavy" Afterburner
CPU 20 tf
POWER 20 (22) MJ
ACTIVATION 40 (44) GJ
THRUST 4.5 MN
MASS 1500 T

30MN "Heavy" Afterburner I
CPU 35 tf
POWER 150 (165) MJ
ACTIVATION 155 (171) GJ
THRUST 45 MN
MASS 15000 T

300MN "Heavy" Afterburner I
CPU 65 tf
POWER 3040 (3344) MJ
ACTIVATION 620 (682) GJ
THRUST 450 MN
MASS 150000 T

No.