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Arcade Thrust [Experimental]

Because



Did you ever wanted to see how it would look like if your ship was just built for beauty?
I know, I know, but what I mean is the thrusters.
How many times did you make a good looking ship but was in situation where it would look so much nicer with less thrusters?
Or how many times did you build the hull, and then had to clunk it up with an array of thrusters just to support it?
And then it needs even more blocks, more power producers for all that power requirement.
Well, this mod might be for you.

What this mod does is it streamlines the power of every thruster into a constant thrust by mass.
Meaning you will get the same amount of acceleration with one thruster no matter the size (mass).

In many games, thruster sizes and amount are not proportional to actual thrust force against ship mass.
They are in the end, cosmetics. A size that is most aproprate for a ships design and location etc.
Yes, even Star Citizen does that. Haven't you noticed the acceleration on some ships that have seemignly large rear thrusters but a few tiny RCS around, yet it stops you pretty good or handles pretty well?
Yeah, no. Those RCS, no matter the count, cannot have the same thrust counter output as those giant rear ones. And I'm fine with that, i get it. Deal with it.

So I wanted to emulate that just to see what I could build without constantly thinking-
'Will it have enough thrust? o.O'
'Ah, it needs more thrusters on this side but how do i implement them in current design? -.-'
'This location doesn't have enough room for it and I don't want to make it bigger. :('
'Oh man, so many thrusters, need more power. But where do i put it? T.T'
'So many batteries now... :/'
'How do i tuck away the large reactor on my fighter with all those thrusters? >:/'



Because the way Keen handles block stats, it had to be changed in such a way that currently makes any thruster upgrades unusable! If you rely on upgrades, do not use this mod yet. If you still want to use the mod and have upgrades that are integral to ships hull, or design, just turn the upgrades off. Thank Keen for that. 😑

• Fixed bug where the thrust changes were global instead of per grid. Meaning the last grid to have had a block added/removed was used for thrust calculations which as you can imagine would result in wrong thrust forces on any other grid of a bigger mass difference.
  This however came at a price of upgrades not being supported yet. I will try to add thruster upgrade support as soon as possible.
  
• Changed it so that the logic only applies to supported thrusters, any non-recognized thruster from a mod will work as usual.
  
• Rebalanced thrust forces by small and large grids.
  
• Added mass threshold to large and small grid.
  A small grid thruster will have the same force up to 300 tons.
  A large grid thruster will have same force up to 3500 tons.

Balancing still in progress.



* RCS
* Small Thrusters - All vanilla small thrusters fall into this category.
* Large Thrusters - All vanilla large thrusters fall into this category.
* Super Thrusters
* Capital Thrusters
* Titan Thrusters


It would make sense for vanilla small thrusters to be RCS category, large as large and Sci-Fi as small and super.
However, since it's a DLC and should be of cosmetic nature as well as to avoid imbalance due to not everyone having the DLC's, they are all the same category.
So no, that will not change.



There will be different thrust outputs for different thruster types for modded ones that I will implement soon.
However, even when i implement that, modders must supply that with their mods.
In mean time I will open a discussion where you can help me add modded thrusters into proper categories as I can't do it all.
It would take just too much time to go through so many mods, download them and check all of them and add etc.
You can help out with your favorite thruster mods. To keep it simple and easy to track and try avoid duplicates, please follow the format rules.
And please check if the mod or thruster isn't already posted by someone else in the discussion or if it's not already supported in the CURRENTLY SUPPORTED MODS section.



Vanilla Flavored Thrusters by Malogny, Super Thruster (Vanilla Flavored Thrusters update by PSYCHO)
RCS Thruster by Darth Biomech
Titan Engine by Darth Biomech
Industrial Thrusters by SAGE
Hover Engine by SAGE
Industrial Cockpits and More! by SAGE
DK Thrusters by Duncan Kong
Cratos Thruster by Sektan
Inline RCS by PSYCHO



Apparently gyro's are even more locked-up so postponed for now.




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