Reverse thrusters: This is one of the top items on my wishlist for the game. Having these would make your ship more maneuverable, which would make targeting easier and also make flying more fun in general. It would also fix those annoying situations where you overshoot your docking target by a hair and have to turn your ship alllllllllllll the way around to get back to it.
I know there is already a "brake" key, but having reverse thrusters on the down arrow would be much more natural and useful and easier to use. They wouldn't be that hard to implement, either--especially relative to alot of other suggestions on here. For speed balance, reverse thruster power could be set to 70% or so of main thruster power.
I've already tried to add reverse thrusters using the mod system. My plan was to make a "RetroRocket" mod, basically a "missle launcher" type device that when fired would provide negative thrust. Unfortunately, it seems that the game treats an engine with negative thrust as if it were zero thrust, so this can't be done with the current version of the game engine.
Suggestion: Reverse Thrusters
Update: Cool, it works!
And if you make the weapon fire sideways you can strafe, heh heh!
Too bad you have to give up your missle launcher to use it.
And if you make the weapon fire sideways you can strafe, heh heh!
Too bad you have to give up your missle launcher to use it.
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Then you'd be giving up your primary weapon. I'd rather lose the launcher.evilbob wrote:so? just remove the "launcher = true" tag.
I've tried that and it doesn't work. The second weapon section just overwrites the first. Looks like you can have a device with multiple function types simultaneously (like a weapon and engine combo), but not a device with multiples functions of the same type (like a double weapon).evilbob wrote:also, you can make one weapon with multiple functions, just have multiple "<weapon>" sections in the "<itemtype>"
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