Cheetah thrusters

[AeternusDoleo]

Because the Freelancer engine doesn't allow for on-the-fly editing of textures. The lights are actually different objects, mounted to your ship much like guns. It is just not possible.
As for the advantage of the Cheetah thruster - they can be continuously turned on for a very long time. Useful if you need to get away on thruster and your attacker is spamming CDs. Shields and thrusters haven't really been thought over in terms of balance. Just "more expensive is better recharge/longer thrust time" - but there's a few other options that can be applied. For instance, power drain. A capital ship thruster could easily be made to have a significant power drain while recharging. Shields as well, there's a few configurable options: Top capacity, regen rate, downtime, energy usage and cargo space used. Those can be played around with to give a more varied list of equipment.

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