Okay, pretty simple idea here, but a search turned up nil.

I want to remove the ability to engage cruise. That's really it.

I presume it's (unfortunately) a hack, unless I've missed something while looking through engine entries.

Thanks for your time!

an flhook plugin that disables cruise or you could try setting the global cruise speed constant to 0.

What about removing the key from Keymap and Keylist.ini?

But npcs would still try to use it, and players could put the key back...
But what about making cruise drain very much power?

Will "m-m-massive" energy drain effect NPC's if they have infinite power supplies? Also, what will happen to things like catching up with formations you join.

I'm putting this on a Total Conversion, so the only NPCs about will do what I tell them to do. D:<

Results of some tests:

Incredibly high energy drain (IE: 1000000) appears to be bugged, the core will recharge sometimes before dropping back to zero. Of course, no problem as 10k works fine.

0 Cruise Speed works as you can imagine on the box, you just sit there. Couple with the energy drain, you're dead in the water. It's not a 'problem' per se, but the engine effect remains; it's quite amusing to see a huge jet of fire coming out the back of a Rhino while it sits motionless. This is a key reason why I'd like it disabled completely.


On a related note; adding power drain to the engines is quite cool. It pulls power relative to the amount of throttle, so I could imagine some really interesting battles if the feature was used; slowing down to unleash on your opponents then losing the ability as you speed up to evade their return salvo.

Don't plan on using it, but it's interesting nontheless.

Just make cruise speed same as the ship speed??

lol it was the first thing somebody suggested in the thread