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More speed than speed limit while turning (BtRL) ???

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ARSPR:
I suppose this is not a bug but some kind of feature I didn't know about. I post it here rather than mantising.

Take a look at the screenshot. My ship speed limit is 200 but when I turn hard I reach 350. What's happening?

Thanks in advance.

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Mobius:
Momentum I guess...

Turey:
It's a side-effect of the high damp values. Combined with a timely use of Glide, you could do things like this:

Backslash:
It is really silly IMO, especially when watching someone else's ship do it in multiplayer.  I (and Turey :yes:) added an option that fixes this:
in ai_profiles.tbl, add to the end:
--- Code: ---$use newtonian dampening:               YES
--- End code ---
This only works on builds made after 2007.07.19
I'm hoping to convince the BtRL crew that this option is necessary ;)

Flipside:
Wasn't there a trick similar to this in Descent where you could go faster than your ships top speed? It was called Tri-vectoring or something?

Edit: Or maybe Tri-chording?

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