that would still not solve the problem of "i can stay at 40, but if i throttle down and up again i only get to 5"

it does limit your opportunities to switch profession, yes, but by imitating real peoples thinking. if you spend your whole life as a mercenary, slaughtering from one battlefield to another and then switch to transporting tribble fur caps people will be cautious at first and slowly start to recogni...

but its not strictly defined how fast you can go for a given energy for every value of energy. you could either be at speed 60 or 5 for 3e6 energy, and that would be confusing as hell. i set my energy to 5e6, speed up to 40 and then i can reduce my energy to 3e6, thats counterintuitive. its even mor...

No, I get what you mean, it's a pretty good idea and brings to mind the whole idea of going "supersaiyan" where a person can transition from one sort of energy plateau to another. The only issue is that I'm struggling to a mathematical model which would lead to that kind of transition but with the ...

leave me alone with my inaccurate nominations xD

imagine a diode - UI - Plot, at the 0.7Volt point for SI diodes xD
there is the point where the drive starts to get into cruise mode

the h-drive could just have a nonlinear response to more energy and gets more efficient at building up and maintaining linear speed with increased energy allocation. something like this graph, when you plot energy on x and acceleration/max speed on y http://www.originlab.com/www/resources/tech_revi...

For gameplay i'd say dissipate it as heat, as you create a "flash" as you go down from cruise drive. So you cannot sneak in with cruise drives on bit have to literally sneak with "slow" drives Well it's not necessarily a transition from cruise drive mode to "slow" drive mode, it's just any decelera...

If you're doing a lot of exploring, e.g., picking up lots of data and discovering lots of new objects, then it doesn't really matter that you have to defend yourself sometimes.  Your record still will show that you're primarily interested in exploration / trading / whatever. It's only if you spend ...

Interesting (and ridiculously extensive :clap: ) proposal. I did not read everything in detail, since it is too late already, but I think you miscalculated the explosive force of your payload: Using the famous E=mc^2 and a mass of 1 µg (microgram) for the payload I get a total amount of 90 MJ, not ...

One additional thing I forgot to mention in the original post: Say you have a circuit with a switch, an inductor and an emf supply (e.g. battery). You've closed the switch and let the system run a while until the inductor's built up its magnetic field close to full capacity (0.5LI^2) and the curren...

if you are already wearing a rift you should ditch the leap and acuire two of these instead

maybe use the heisenberg drive as cruise drive and for low speeds standard drives? That kind of ruins the elegance and re-introduces a number of problems. What's to stop someone achieving indefinitely high speeds using standard propulsion? What happens when you run out of fuel or someone blows off ...

the only thing i find that speaks against the heisenberg drive is that it does away with the need for colorful engine exhaust ports, which i would miss dearly That's true, and I would miss them too, but the fact that it's an exotic drive opens up the potential for an even cooler look and feel than ...

Thanks, Lum. :) The most important part of suggestions are the benefits they confer to Limit Theory. So if you or anyone else doesn't feel like reading the entire post, I advise to skip straight to "Goal Fulfilment". If that's still too long for you, at least take away this: the proposal gives a re...

I'll go through these one at a time. - Your mines couldn't be reused indefinitely either. Motion requires reaction mass(if we're discounting reaction mass then missiles just got a whole hell of a lot more effective). [...] - Of course they need propellant. If we're making up non newtonian drives th...