[greenslam]

First things first.  Kudo's to the team that made this wonderful mod.  Playing wing commander has brought back some great memories, and now I need to get a joystick. Playing with a mouse sucks. You guys have left me begging for more missions, and I guess I will have to learn FRED in order to make my own.

My question is this:  Does adding engine energy make the ship go any faster?  Or is it a bug that does not allow the ship speed up with all power diverted to the engines? In the intro saga mission, I pumped all the energy into the engines, and the ship only went at 81 (the same speed setting with all energy normalized).  It would slow down for if I diverted energy to weapons or shields, but adding energy to the engines didn't seem to make it go faster.  It's especially annoying using a longbow and the AI fighters will lead you a long way away from the rest of your wingman.
I didn't want to waste afterburner all the time just to catch up or move quicker into the carrier.

I love the new autopilot.  I actually never played WC4, so now I am left in the dark for the rest of the game.

Here is a screenshot of what I am talking about.  Hopefully it's not too dark.  I have to really boost my brightness levels in the game to see it on my normal brightness setttings.

[img=http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/6896/wcspeednd9.th.jpg]

[Talon 1024]

In fact, that is intentional.  In Wing Commander, you couldn't increase your maximum speed above normal.  The Saga team wants their game to be true to the original.

[Aginor]

IIRC in Wing Commander setting the engine power to a higher level only had an effect to acceleration, but not to top speed.

[techno-babble]
Due to the construction of ion drives there is a certain limitation of top speed which is directly linked to the type of engine.
The (insert some strange sounding name of a technical device here, something like "warp-bubble" if you want) can't move faster in the space-time continuum than the (insert some other strange sounding name of a random physical phenomenon here), except there is (insert something else here, if you want to break this rule)
[/techno-babble]


That's it!  ;-)