Talk:Skywatch Aerial Alliance/@comment-32153758-20130913234544/@comment-11135771-20130914164006

Try tweaking the shape of the base, just doing minor edits got the speed of the Tranquility from 20 knots to almost 90 (I added a line of the large rectangular armor blocks along the underside, it seems to consistently improve the speed of flying ships for some reason). Also, you mentioned hat your ships start out with the base already fair ways under the water. The way mine work, the base starts out about 1m above the surface, goes under in a few seconds, and then the ship descends really slowly (like 3-10m per minute, depending on which ship) until I reduce the throttle to make it rise. Not sure if the difference in the two methods makes a difference, but it might. Oh, and bases that are long, wide, and flat tend to be a lot slower than ones that are skinny, long, and higher.