Afterburning speeds

[badkarmasix]

It is possible. It's a feature on a few other mods.

Personally, I like the idea, but I can see things quickly spirally out of control unless a lot of restrictions were coded in. There would have to be (light/heavy/very heavy) fighter thrusters, freighter thrusters, bomber thrusters, transport thrusters...thrusters...thrusters...you get the idea. Just to keep one type (ie. the best) of thruster from being abused by all. I gather that is the reason there are only two thruster speeds in Discovery. And I suppose it might take a fair deal of coding/time to do.

I would go one step further though, and have different regular speeds for each ship as well. Just for the sake of variety. But that might get abused as well. One of the features I liked about the Frontierspace mod was the fact that you could upgrade your engines and powerplant to some extent - higher speeds, longer lasting thrusters, more energy capacity, quicker gun recharges, etc. The feature was limited by ship class and there were items that were non-transferrable. And the upgrades reduced cargo capacity. It was nice to be able to customize my ship. Don't see it happening here though. I believe Igiss already stated that there would no additional mounted equipment in the next release. Again, I imagine it would be a feature that would be extremely difficult to balance.

Cheers,
Idaho

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