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Awesome! Looking forward to trying out the new thrusters and new thruster balance

    awwwwww yeeeeeeeeeeee. More thrusters, more power, less mods needed

      Walt You know,6 months ago i thought mods made this game great. but looking at what youve done and all youve added, this game is muuuch stronger in the vanilla mode. Thx for staying on deelopment, we all love your work!

      Can't wait to try out the new thrusters, very much looking forward to more vanilla stuff like Shakesha said.

        Does lateral thrust mean sideways thrust??

        Walt When a ship is spawned and crew are teleported from their beds to their various stations, the crew will no longer be teleported to completely separate sections of the ship to which they could not have ordinarily walked.

        Yay!

        Walt 2-Way Small Thruster, which is like two Small Thrusters in a single unit.
        3-Way Small Thruster, which is like three Small Thrusters in a single unit.
        Huge Thruster, which is an even more powerful 3x3 thruster.
        Engine Room, which increases the thrust and power consumption of adjacent thrusters by 50%.

        yay!

        Walt Updated most of the built-in ships to use these new parts.

        yay!

        Walt The Standard, Large, and (newly-added) Huge Thrusters now require some amount of time to achieve full thrust. The Standard Thruster takes 1 second to achieve full thrust, the Large Thruster takes 3 seconds, and the Huge Thruster takes 6 seconds.

        yay!

        Walt Ship collision avoidance will no longer cause ships to go outside the Ring of Death.

        yay!

        Walt, you have my sincere respect for your hard work on this game! It is very rare to see a developer staying so devoted for his game!
        Thank you from all of us! 🙂
        Keep up the good work!

          jbox1
          YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

          Walt
          if i download this it wont wreck my existing ship designs will it?

          Tson no

          jbox1
          thx

            Walt Standard, Large, and (newly-added) Huge Thrusters can no longer exert lateral thrust.
            Reduced the lateral thrust of Small Thrusters (including the new 2-Way and 3-Way variants) from 30% to 10%.

            I thought they would all get equal lateral thrust %age (or no lateral thrust).
            Since we have specific 2/3 way thrusters that would be reasonable i think.
            I see that keeping the lateral trust for small thrusters is intended to sove smolships.
            Hope it wil not be exploited again by, mostly diagonal, ships that only use smallest thrusters.

            Walt The Standard, Large, and (newly-added) Huge Thrusters now require some amount of time to achieve full thrust. The Standard Thruster takes 1 second to achieve full thrust, the Large Thruster takes 3 seconds, and the Huge Thruster takes 6 seconds.

            That does mean 1 / 3 / 6 seconds when played in normal speed i guess and is scaled when playing in different speeds - or it would hardly make any sense?

            Rly fear players will exploit the smallest thrusters again 🙁

            Ty for all the bugfixes and New Parts! 🙂

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            Walt
            my game just crashed in multiplayer when i was in a game with @SpaceCat and @That_Angry_Man, unfortunately i dont know why as i was a noob and closed the error page, thought i should still let u kno tho

            • Walt replied to this.

              @Walt

              Ok - had a go with thrusters.

              In Races: Larger ones need so long to get to full thrust that the ships with smaller thrusters reach the destination quicker simply because they accelerate much better.

              In fights: go all small thrusters or die waiting for thrust to build up!

              Larger thrusters only make sense over very large distances, which are not present in multiplayer (ring of death) and also large distance travel is hardly ever usefull in singleplayer.

              Also smaller thrusters beeing the only ones with lateral thrust now kills using any other thrusters then small for small and medium ships.

              All but small thrusters are pretty useless with this thrust-delay and no lateral thrust.

              Great update but bad first attempt (RC1) 😉

              SpaceCat
              i agree about the lateral bit but not the delay
              also, IT CRASHED AGAIN, ARRRRDGDGHSAGHE

              Multiplayer crashes or disconnects constantly.
              I do not post all the logs here obv.

              Tson the delay

              The Thrust-delay makes acceleration so slow that you reach your destinations quicker, and turn quicker, with small thrusters - so how could you not agree?