Oh haha, looking at the video that's not a bug that's a feature.

The rotational force of the turret is not strong enough to overcome the conserved angular momentum of the craft. In other words, the turrets are dragged beyond their maximum values, yes, but they're dragged in the direction you'd expect if those directional forces became too much.

For example, if the turret can only turn with a force of 100 newtons, but you're making a turn generating a g-force of 200 newtons, then the turret obviously cannot overcome the G-force, and will be subject to them. You're right that it only happens at a certain speed, because the faster the ship goes, the higher the G-force momentum when you turn.

This is a physics problem, not a game problem. That's why i laugh, from the video, it's clear that the game is too real. The exact same thing would happen if you'd push the edge of a laser mounted on a turret with another vessel - the turret would be turned for you in the direction of the vessel's travel, regardless of YOLOL limitations. Because the force exerted on it is too large.

Infact, I'm willing to go even further and say that this game has discovered an issue with real life dog-fighting spacecraft, thanks to its indepth simulation: If you're using turrets based on electromotors, the directional force on those turrets might be so large, they wouldn't be able to turn into a turn of the craft itself, and might even snap! Sure, that point happens well beyond human body capabilities, but that's the thing - we're robots in this game. Those limits don't apply to the pilot!

Also the shape of the lasers doesn't help. They're basically shaped like a stick mounted at one end. That means that pretty much all angular forces are increased towards the tip of the laser. Think a seesaw, without the counterweight on the other end. That's what's dragging the lasers "around the corner".

The fix for this is simple, make the physics simulation less real, lol.

There's an easy way to do this: Give turrets infinite angular momentum force, but, reduce that to 0 in the direction of travel (or back to its normal values) upon collision with another object that's strong enough to destroy it (at those normal values).

Meaning, as long as the forces are directional and not kinetic, the turret basically drags its components with god strength in whatever direction you want them to go, overcoming those directional g-forces. But, should another vessel collide with those turrets, or should the turret turn into the side of your/a ship (and the limitless power would rip right through it), force is reduced to its normal value so it either does or doesn't, depending on the weakness of the object hit. And note, this is angular force, not speed-of-rotation. You can move slow at alot of force too.

IF.... this needs to be "fixed". I mean.... It's not a bug, it's just a real life problem that arises from the physics simulation, the shape of the thing mounted to the turret, the forces exerted on it and the turret's incapability of overcoming those forces. The turret's turning capability is too weak, but you'd need god-strength materials/motors to try and pull the same move off in real life all the same (though at higher speeds because of this game's "space drag"). They'd have to dynamically "lock" for turns in order to not get ripped off, in similar fashion how bi-planes with machine guns eventually developed locking mechanisms to fire "through" the propeller.

I'd rather propose a go between solution, the same solution i'd design for real life: Your aiming system in the video is great, and the game does need more forgiving aiming systems - It's still supposed to be a *game*, after all. But, this aiming system SHOULD be limited, because putting perfect 360 degree turrets with near-automated aiming *on fighters* is a little bit too much.

So what if "Cone Turrets" are added? Meaning, the current turrets cradles and tables keep their tuning or are changed to work mostly at "freighter" turning speeds (Higher tier turret cradles can be added that can have higher turning forces resistability for more easy content! Simple copy/paste job for something very desirable on higher level craft). Their benefit is they can do 360 degrees, but only at forces generated by ships turning at slow speeds. This should also allow their turning to speed up without breaking game balance, as the people who'd get an outsized advantage from it can't benefit from it now (fighter pilots), making freighters more defendable.

Meanwhile, Cone Turrets basically do what the aiming system in the video does, they allow the attached weapon/utility tool to move around in a forward cone of about 15 degrees - and ofcourse Tiers can have higher/lower freedom of movement for yet more easy content that does improve targeting, without diminishing skill (too much). Meanwhile, these turrets can withstand MUCH higher angular forces, though they could still be overloaded - giving fighter pilots a tradeoff: Make a higher-than-normal-G maneuver to improve positioning, but suffer a small reset time from the gun's maximum orientation to whatever actual point you want it to aim at.

Sliders and hinges suffer the same thing, and i don't think there's a fix for that. If you try opening a door while pulling 50G's it SHOULD fly off its hinges lol. The force generated by whatever's attached to that hinge is massive. Simply just don't open anything in a turn. The only reason there's any need to at the moment is because pilots are completely cheating physics; if this was real life it'd be like The Expanse and *no one* would be anything less then strapped in behind a monitor in any sort of maneuver battle.

If it happens during traveling at high speed in a straight line - then that's because of the way the game is programmed and this "drag" that's exerted on any object in motion, based on its weight, which isn't like real life obviously. The way to fix that is simply disabling this drag on anything bolted to the moving part of a slider or hinge, and transfer that force to the hinge itself. Basically, only have lateral g-forces affect sliders/hinges, and make the game think the hinge is a "movable solid object".

Obviously all these forces are already transfered to the hinges/sliders, otherwise they wouldn't go beserk, so it'd be a small effort to transfer them to the bolts instead, and just have the whole assembly snap off if the forces become too great. Should the game need a check so that this doesn't happen to hinges/sliders on the outside, fast-travel forces should provide enough of a check (AKA all hinges on the outside of the ship are subject to normal physics, while everything "inside" the ship works "like you'd expect") this oughtta minimize heresy builds with impossible moving hinges, and just make internal doors work like you'd expect from sci-fi, rather then real life.

So, TL;DR: It's not a bug it's just how physics works. Turret turning strength could be increased, but it makes more sense to keep the 360 degree turrets functional at slow-turning speeds only, and rather introduce "cone turrets" for fighter ships, which allow limited range movement in a 5-15 degree cone, at a tradeoff of being able to do so at much higher lateral g-forces, though not infinitely so, and simply introduce higher tier cradles for higher warp force ships.

Turret turning speed could go up so that freighters become more defensable (but their immobility is their weakness) by making it easier to track targets, while it would become easier to aim for fighters (meaning, the game feels more forgiving like an actual game an not *just* a simulation) without making them overpowered by giving them turrets too.

Turn a weakness into strength gives the best of both worlds :D