Gravity Drives?

[Capt Cliff]

How come the grav-drive has so many bars? If you put power into the grav system, maxing out the bars, you don't seem to get more range! Am I missing something?

[Jaggid Edje]

More power to the grav drive increases how quickly it charges up. This allows you, for example, to grav jump out very quickly if you end up in a combat situation in space that you cannot handle.

[Ebyl]

It lowers the charge time.

[dulany67]

The more power you shift to the drive, the faster you jump. Useful if you need to escape from an encounter.

[Mathias Giovanni]

If you max it out you instantly jump. So if you were trying to avoid a fight you can just escape if you want.

[poomanchu]

The more bars applied there, means the faster the grav jump will initiate. When I jump into a system and there are a bunch of pirates I know will kill me, I put all bars in 'grav.' That way, instead of taking 6+ seconds to initialize, it's on the order of milliseconds and I always get away.

[Lochar]

Yeah like above posted having 8 bars in it is almost instant travel

[Mathias Giovanni]

I would say the charge up time is a bit too fast even with 1 bar. Which is what I leave in it. If I max I don't even see the display it basically instantly happens.

[Caduryn]

Originally posted by Capt Cliff:

How come the grav-drive has so many bars? If you put power into the grav system, maxing out the bars, you don't seem to get more range! Am I missing something?

Its not about the range, its about the time

[podge112]

you dnt have to wait the 5 seconds to power up

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by Mathias Giovanni:

I would say the charge up time is a bit too fast even with 1 bar. Which is what I leave in it. If I max I don't even see the display it basically instantly happens.

That's not at all true. It's the difference between less than 1 second and 5 seconds between a single pip and full pips.

[Xmasbeer]

I really want a panic button that re allocates all engine and weapon power to max out grav drive. If I really need to jump out instantly, then it means I am in too much trouble to fiddle with allocation arrow buttons

[[FuFo] Mortucus]

It speeds up charge time so you jump faster

[ForgeTec]

if your a transport or a fighter it doesn't really matter to add more as its 1-10 secs for charge

if your a smuggler or jump into a conflict though and you just want to escape put points in and you can nearly insta jump out of there

[Mightylink]

It's for getting away quickly if you don't want to stick around in a fight, but for the most part you only need 1 bar.

[Mathias Giovanni]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

Originally posted by Mathias Giovanni:

I would say the charge up time is a bit too fast even with 1 bar. Which is what I leave in it. If I max I don't even see the display it basically instantly happens.

That's not at all true. It's the difference between less than 1 second and 5 seconds between a single pip and full pips.

Still to fast. 5 seconds isn't that long. 1 pip should be like a 10 second charge to me.