Aug for speed, get better gear, or don't use a slow ship.

lol wut?

This and Zen of Capacity wouldn't be so bad, actually. +100 speed is too powerful, though, so it'd have to be capped lower I think.

If this is going in it should probably be a % bonus based on your original speed (doesn't multiply at all with anything EXCEPT for negative effects, unlike zen of range).

Speed seems rather broken as a fixed bonus though. I'd rather have an extension of the current bar skills or something.

How about four zens!? Zen of the north, south, east, and west! Getting Zen of the West makes you go faster to the west and slower to the east ^_^

Bar Skills people... Bar skills.


(Which Jeff is looking at increasing in the future)

Zens are interesting (not necessarily balanced) because they are absolute bonuses. I'm not sure whether small, SP-costly absolute bonuses to hull and speed are warranted but that would definitely be a approach from the usual bar skills.

adding a hard cap on speed is just a no in my opinion. increasing speed to ships that have low speed as a direct balancing perspective only breaks it. for instance the Unforge.

As Beel says, it'd be amazing for ships with low base speed (thinking Prawn here) and also for Zerkers, assuming it wouldn't be affect by augs and class skills. Perhaps a bit too amazing, but still...