My ship speed vs. other ships speed

[Darkken Nightshade]

I am playing: roam/elite pilot/millitary/terran.

I have rc5 updated, and have my 4 "team escorts".

I have chosen to fly the RAVEN which at 750 is the highest speed I see of all small fighter crafts. My escorts are defenders (705), zenstars(720), etc...

My observation /perception is that while I am cranked upto my highest speed, and feel like I am moving at a good pace relative to Galcom HQ, but my escorts are moving much faster then me.

One moment they are on the otherside of HQ, and then they zoom by me on the opposite side. I have watched them in tacops as well. I know that their top speed is "close" but lower then mine. But regardless they cover allot more space then I can.

My question is two fold.

1> Does anyone think that is true of the otherships they observe?

2> I'm I doing something incorrectly and so missing the greater potenial of my crafts top speed.

Hyperdrive is not in question here. They are not hyperdriving. We are moving small relative distances and buzzing around HQ's., yet they seem to be at least triple my fastest speed.

Help, comments, are appreciated.

[Supreme Cmdr]

They are doing short acceleration bursts, then throttling back. Thats how escorts operate and they can't exceed the speed of the craft, they're just showing you what you should know already.

[Darkken Nightshade]

I thougt about that. I was afraid that my "perception" is getting confused by something similar to a "parallax" view, effect. I will look at tacops much closer to try to determine exactly where they start/stop in one of these bursts, and see how long it takes me to cover the same distance.

I do not doubt your statement that they cannot exceed their top limit.

Thanks for the quick reply.

[Darkken Nightshade]

Just delete this thread, before anyone I know reads my mispreceptions. They are not moving faster, it is a visual miscue based on the depths of the various objects against themselves.

Sorry. Tacops show me that I must have rotated the plane earlier and thought that they were at a different start point, changing the sensitity on my mouse and using keyboard to fine tune the zoom shows exactly the movements and they are all relative the way they should be.