velocity bar is not active with Velocity Security Control Bypass upgrade

[robberer]

Hi,

 

i don't know if this is a bug, but yesterday i've put a "Velocity Security Control Bypass" system upgrade onto my ship for the first time.

 

I've noticed that while having this module on the ship the velocity bar (first bar, center top of the screen) isn't working. It simply shows nothing as when i'm not accelerating/decelerating.

[AURAequine]

I've noticed this as well. I can understand that the upgrade bypasses security controls, but I don't see that actually disabling the indication of the ship's velocity :/

 

So yeah, sounds more like a bug than an intended feature.

[Splutty]

Uhm. You have no cap to your speed. So how would you use the bar in that case? The cap you have is your boost energy.

[wm46]

The velocity bar isn't really a velocity bar, it just shows you what percentage of your max speed you're traveling at, and flashes white if you're above it by boosting.

 

The velocity bypass sets your max speed to 30,000,000, aka light speed. Even if you make a ship that's one big engine, you will never go fast enough to light up one blip due to magic space air fiction.

 

The max speed I've gone by giving myself 14 engine modules and one velocity bypass is 500,000, which is not even 2%, and won't even show up on the bar.

[AURAequine]

I see, that actually makes a lot of sense.. So if you wanted to slow down, in order to tell the right direction to rotate to, you'd have to turn on the retrograde marker and then accelerate in that direction? Alrighty

[robberer]

Yeah, indeed wm46' answer makes sense. So, i would say also that it is not a bug.

 

It's a lack of information about current ships velocity.

 

In my past playtime i ALWAYS missed a velocity indicator for my ship.

 

In numerical values not as a bar. And I mean velocity indicators for every direction. Not just forward/backward thrust. I think it should be part of the HUD like it is done in "Evochron Legacy" . There I always see on the HUD how the ship is moving and where i have to put counter thrust in INERT mode. But thats for the suggestion forum. :-)

 

EDIT: (i know i can get that info for forward velocity by switching into the drone, selecting my ship, and switiching back to my ship), but that is to less and complicated to control your ship in INERT mode , during a fight, with the new flight controls introduced with the latest patch

[Splutty]

You can select your own ship from your 'Fleet' tab in the Player window.

[Weye]

or just hold shift and middle click on it, or if  your crosshair is over top of your ship when turning

[robberer]

or just hold shift and middle click on it, or if  your crosshair is over top of your ship when turning

 

This is a practicable solution. But the developer got it even better done for total velocity (screenshot attached)  8)

 

With different velocity indicators (horizontal, vertical, forward, backward, total) it would be better but i understand that Avorion is not a space (flight) sim.