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Is ship acceleration proportional to ship's warp speed?
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Hrothgar Nilsson
#1 - 2012-08-25 09:25:08 UTC
Just kind of curious if the acceleration/deceleration of ships are proportional to the maximum warp speeds of said ships.

For example:

--Probe warp is 6.00 AU/s
--Cheetah warp is 13.50 AU/s (225% the warp of the Probe)

Does the Cheetah accelerate toward when entering & decelerating from its warp speed of 13.50 AU/s at 225% the speed of the Probe?

I've... seen things you people wouldn't believe...

Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion...
Gabrielle Lamb
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2012-08-25 09:40:33 UTC
Nah, ship acceleration is mostly about mass.
MushroomMushroom
State War Academy
Caldari State
#3 - 2012-08-26 04:18:16 UTC
Once you actually begin to enter warp, and your past the point where you can cancel it, all ships accelerate at the same rate. If they are both full speed aligned and you hit warp at the same time, a battleship with a warp speed of 3au will stay in the same warp bubble with a 13.5au ceptor until the ceptor hits the 3au max speed of the battleship and continues accelerating past it.

Mass/Agility only effect the time it takes to align for warp.
Zhilia Mann
Tide Way Out Productions
#4 - 2012-08-26 05:06:02 UTC
MushroomMushroom wrote:
Once you actually begin to enter warp, and your past the point where you can cancel it, all ships accelerate at the same rate. If they are both full speed aligned and you hit warp at the same time, a battleship with a warp speed of 3au will stay in the same warp bubble with a 13.5au ceptor until the ceptor hits the 3au max speed of the battleship and continues accelerating past it.

Mass/Agility only effect the time it takes to align for warp.


This. Which is why faster warp speed only matters in large systems. In smaller systems ships spend a fairly small amount of time at maximum warp speed, meaning they all land after about the same amount of time.