Detached drop tanks continue to supply propellant
Feb 3, 2017 16:48:03 GMT
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Post by jonen on Feb 3, 2017 16:48:03 GMT
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This can be tested with the new stock staged striker missiles.
Launch a couple, zoom out and in to get them arrayed for testing purposes, pause, give them orders to burn in a direction, have one of them detach droptanks, unpause, watch the prelaunched missiles go shooting off towards infinity.
The one you just had drop tanks will have unchanged, but lower deltaV (until the ones that didn't drop have also burned through their tanks, assuming equally long burns).
Detaching droptanks, then zooming out to maneuver screen does not allow the deltaV in the droptanks to be used in maneuver or when zoomed back in.
I think damage that causes deltaV to be recalculated will cause the game to realize the droptanks are not there, but this is harder to test.
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This can be tested with the new stock staged striker missiles.
Launch a couple, zoom out and in to get them arrayed for testing purposes, pause, give them orders to burn in a direction, have one of them detach droptanks, unpause, watch the prelaunched missiles go shooting off towards infinity.
The one you just had drop tanks will have unchanged, but lower deltaV (until the ones that didn't drop have also burned through their tanks, assuming equally long burns).
Detaching droptanks, then zooming out to maneuver screen does not allow the deltaV in the droptanks to be used in maneuver or when zoomed back in.
I think damage that causes deltaV to be recalculated will cause the game to realize the droptanks are not there, but this is harder to test.
...
Carbon nanotube thethers?