Afterburner: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 09:03, 3 December 2009

Basic Description

A module that boosts the speed of the ship when activated for closing down a target, or escaping an enemy. They can also be used to help boost your transveral speed against an enemy and therefore make it harder for bigger ships in particular to score a successful hit against you.

Afterburners take up a medium power slot on your ship fitting.

There are different sizes of Afterburner based on basic ship hull size. A rough guide :

1MN = Frigate size
10MN = Cruiser/Battle Cruiser
100MN = Battleship+

Drawbacks

Extra capacitor consumption as it cycles

Longer ship alignment speeds whilst it is active.

Afterburners don't provide anywhere near as much of a speed boost as a Microwarpdrive, (roughly 100% boost rather than 500% depending on variations) but come with less penalties.

Advantages vs a Microwarpdrive

Considerably less skill and fitting requirements

They can still be used in Mission deadspaces that interfere with warp fields.

They don't have a penalty to Capacitor size

They don't have a penalty to ship signature size whilst active.

They aren't affected by your ship being Warp Scrambled.

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-A module that boosts the speed of the ship when activated. Drawbacks include capacitor consumption per cycle and longer ship alignment speeds when used.
+===Basic Description===
-Example: 1MN Afterburner I
+A module that boosts the speed of the ship when activated for closing down a target, or escaping an enemy. They can also be used to help boost your transveral speed against an enemy and therefore make it harder for bigger ships in particular to score a [[Turret Damage|successful hit]] against you.
+Afterburners take up a medium power slot on your ship fitting.
+There are different sizes of Afterburner based on basic ship hull size. A rough guide :
+* 1MN = Frigate size
+* 10MN = Cruiser/Battle Cruiser
+* 100MN = Battleship+
+===Drawbacks===
+* Extra capacitor consumption as it cycles
+* Longer ship alignment speeds whilst it is active.
+* Afterburners don't provide anywhere near as much of a speed boost as a Microwarpdrive, (roughly 100% boost rather than 500% depending on variations) but come with less penalties.
+===Advantages vs a Microwarpdrive ===
+* Considerably less skill and fitting requirements
+* They can still be used in Mission deadspaces that interfere with warp fields.
+* They don't have a penalty to Capacitor size
+* They don't have a penalty to ship signature size whilst active.
+* They aren't affected by your ship being Warp Scrambled.