Inertia Thrusters

[Blaza612]

The idea of Inertia Thrusters is simple, you quite simply place them around your ship as if it were a normal thruster (in other words, anywhere) and it would increase the turning/rotating speed of the ship it's attached to. It would use less power, as it outputs slightly less, and the more there are, a multiplier increases slightly, this multiplier affects all inertia thruster turning speeds, regardless of being adjacent to eachother or not.

A simple idea, yet one that could make turning large ships bearable. ^_^

 

[jayman38]

I'm giving this a thumbs-down if only because turning rate is on the agenda for a future change. I don't think that dev change will come any time soon, but neither are a lot of other neat things.

 

[BiGEdge]

I dont like the Idea either.
Because why should a massive 1mil Block ship should turn as fast as a 3k Blocks fighter?
The turning rate and how it drops can be changed in the serverconfigs and Block configs.
anything else would be copied from space engeneers.
I like the system how it works right now and ther are enough options to improve it.

 

[Honytawk]

Only if it only affects maximum turning speed.
It should not touch turning acceleration.

Big ships should not feel like small ships.

 

[NeonSturm]

Just do following math:

average turning speed = max server speed / ship's mass^(1/3) * serverMult // to not give cubes any advantage over other shapes.

turning speed x = y*z area.
turning speed y = x*z area.
turning speed z = x*y area.​

 

[Blaza612]

Only if it only affects maximum turning speed.
It should not touch turning acceleration.

Big ships should not feel like small ships.

That would be good, I don't want big ships to feel like small ships, I just want it to be bearable to turn them, a lot of the time I get confused in what direction I'm looking in relation to other things because it's so slow to turn even slightly.

Anything else would be copied from space engineers.

I don't want this game to be like Space Engineers, again, they would be placed like normal thrusters, so they can be placed anywhere without any real difference. Space Engineers is a buggy pile of ass in my eyes. :/

 

[PizzaPress]

The thrust system will allow you to allocate thrust to turning. Personally I feel that both should have separate points for max speed and acceleration.