How to move very fast?

[esteel]

Ooook.. how to explain this the easiest way..
Yes you are right, using a strafe button helps slightly at low speeds. at higher speeds any use of strafe buttons will hinder the speed gaining or even slow down. With low speeds i mean speeds below 550 units.
You can enable a primitive speed display (3.0 might have something better ) with developer 1;set speedmeter 1 and then load up some map and jump around. Each time you hit the ground your current speed is displayed (abs=).
If you jump normally your first jump gives a speed of 459 units, the second around 518, the third 577 units.. When you press jump and a strafe button you can reach up to 520 units on first jump. That jump on toxic seems to be the only jump doable like this. The gaps on darkzone are too big. An other way to gain (a bit more) speed is to jump, release forward, press a strafe button and move your mouse in the same direction. This makes a kinda curl jump as you have high control about your 'flight path'. I have been able to get up to 580 speed with such a jump. However as that jump makes you change your direction the jump it self will not get you FAR but gain speed. It can be used to bet enough speed to cross the gaps on darkzone with the second jump.
Now remember i said that from certain speeds upwards those two will not make you gain more speed just a normal jump will do that. You can try this on silvercity. Use one of those two jumps to start and jump from one corner to the opposite corner, You will hit the other corner with around 1000 units per second depending on how you started. I have not been able to get over 700 units when using those strafe methods only a normal jump will.

[shaggy]

I'm not the best laser jumper, actually, I'm not very good at using speed, I'm attempting to get better. I assume I will get better if I keep trying.

I wrote a really simple script so you press 'q' and it will change your weapon to the laser, when you let go of q it will take you back to the weapon you had before.

[code]alias +laser "impulse 1"
alias -laser "impulse 11"
bind q "+laser" [/code]

[esteel]

I think that alias is not that useful.. were is the difference in pressing, holding and later releasing one key to pressing one key to switch to the laser and on other to switch back to the old gun (or better bind each gun to a key so you switch to the laser and then to any weapon you might need then at the given situation)
I know using an alias might be cool and fancy but i keep thinking its too inflexible and is also not availible in some other games, and it also changes the way to weapon switch works (to laser jump you have to press and hold a key and press fire..)

And generally its bad to give out untested code/stuff.. you do not know how to make this work, so how do you know it will work for someone that knows to make it work. I gave you those lines and think they are correct but errors are still possible.
BTW to make those three lines work is to enter them into the games console (shift-escape to open it, escape to close it again) or write them into a file Nexuiz/data/autoexec.cfg ..