[Akalabeth Angel]

Is there an option in FredOpen to enable a ship to move faster than normal?? I'm guessing the answer is no, as all I found on a cursory glance was hit-point related stuff.

As to the question why . . . . well, maybe some mission specific situations would have a ship "diverting power to engines" so it could move faster as opposed to tabling that ship to have that higher speed all the time and consequently having to "set-waypoint-speed" in every single mission.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

I tried using a repeating event with set-object-z-speed and it kind of did the trick except set-object-z-speed was broken at the time I tried it.  If it's fixed it should work.  Only drawback (other then the ship going off in the wrong direction) was the speed fluctuating on the targeting window. 

[Backslash]

It is fixed.  The directions were using the wrong world coordinates but that is fixed now.

However, unless the use_newtonian_dampening ai_profile flag is set, the physics engine immediately sets the Z direction back to 0.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Thats where the everytime event comes in.  You just keep setting it to say 200 and it will do 200.  Of course the flag is a better option but not if you aren't using a mod. 

[Backslash]

Right, but I mean it INSTANTLY goes back to 0.  No drift, no slowly ramping down to 0.  As a result you don't even see it move one iota.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

You sure about that?  This sure looks like an Aeolus doing 200+ to me.  That was with the 04/03 trunk build.  BTW that waypoint it is headed to is 20k away and it's 1:43 to get there.

[Backslash]

Hmm!  Well, if that Aeolus is moving that speed in it's subjective Z direction and you don't have that flag set, I stand corrected.  Heh, wonder how that got fixed?

[FUBAR-BDHR]

You're right it doesn't work with subjective.  Also makes the ship go kind of nuts when your close to it.    Same problem I had when I tried it before.  Guess that method is out then.

[Retsof]

Don't modify the existing table entry, but copy/paste a new one, change the name slightly, and change the speed in the new entry, then I'm pretty sure there's a sexp that lets you swap out ships.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Another way to get around it is to dock a small fast ship to the one you want to move then you can make both ships do the speed of the fast one. Doesn't look too good though.