thrust/mass ratio
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Depends on your ship size, the larger the ship the higher a percentage of thrusters you need to maintain the same ratio.
10% thrusters seems a good amount generally, or at least a good starting point. This will give you about 2:1 on a 400 mass corvette, and about 1.2:1 on a 20k mass battleship.
Personally anything below 1.5:1 seems sluggish to me, but then I favor smaller more maneuverable ships.
10% thrusters seems a good amount generally, or at least a good starting point. This will give you about 2:1 on a 400 mass corvette, and about 1.2:1 on a 20k mass battleship.
Personally anything below 1.5:1 seems sluggish to me, but then I favor smaller more maneuverable ships.
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Thrust to mass is exactly that, thrust/mass.
If you have 1000 thrust and 100 mass you have 10:1, 500 mass 2:1. It's that simple.
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I usually try to balance my ships at a 1:1 ratio, unless I am trying to achieve speeds faster than 50 m/s (or whatever the server cap is) with overdrive. If acceleration isn't terribly important, I might even have fewer thrusters than the 1:1, as long as I can still reach the cap.
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what will you do on a different server?
Where the Blockbehaviorconfig is changed?
You can never say you need 2:1 ratio or whatever.
On many servers you need more thrust for more mass, like...
2:1 for a 50 mass Ship
200:1 on a 500 mass Ship
2000:1 on a 5000 and so on
With that its not possible to get a Ship moved with more than a limit of mass.
Or you have to fill all of the interior with thruters to get it accelerated as fast as a Fighter.
But that wouldnt make any sense at all would it?
Just use an other blockbehaviorconfig and this all changed
Where the Blockbehaviorconfig is changed?
You can never say you need 2:1 ratio or whatever.
On many servers you need more thrust for more mass, like...
2:1 for a 50 mass Ship
200:1 on a 500 mass Ship
2000:1 on a 5000 and so on
With that its not possible to get a Ship moved with more than a limit of mass.
Or you have to fill all of the interior with thruters to get it accelerated as fast as a Fighter.
But that wouldnt make any sense at all would it?
Just use an other blockbehaviorconfig and this all changed
Oh, yeah, I haven't sat down and tried to figure that out yet. I just go by responsiveness.