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[QUOTE]Originally posted by machf: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [qb] The "banking" thing coud be the ship matching up it's x/y axis to meet an enemy ship at the same perspective (allowing for more effective firepower?) or just a gradual course correction while at impulse. It's also possible that the "banking" is deliberate so an enemy's weapons have a harder time locking onto key point son your hull. Kinda to spread out damage. [/qb][/QUOTE]But banking is mostly an undesired effect during a turn, product of the way control surfaces on airplanes work. While banking, you may momentarily lose sight of an enemy, which can be lethal... A spaceship, OTOH, doesn't NEED to bank, since it can turn around a single axis (without leaving the plane) using position thrusters, and in doing so, would keep sight of an enemy during the whole turn (of course, if they're flying on "sensors", that point is moot). It seems to me that the only way a spaceship could bank would be if it simultaneously applied thrusters on the side of the prow and the bottom of the same flank, then in the middle of the turn it applied the opposite flank's thrusters... not a very efficient maneuver. Oh, and of course, first the ship should use braking thrusters, regardless of whether it intends to "bank" or not. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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