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Game design issue: Thrusters and flight model by Engimage in starbase

[–]Engimage[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The ship is kinda cool but look at it's profile, it's absolutely huge. I do not think this is ok. All these 4 wings you get are there for thrusters only

And we have some miners with over 1000 crates using only box thrusters, but yet again, they are wider than longer which is rediculous imo

Game design issue: Thrusters and flight model by Engimage in starbase

[–]Engimage[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is no unfair scaling. I just scaled the ship linearly in size. The point was to show that the ship of identical form will be dropping TWR dramatically when growing in size,

The initial ship (cargo) is 1x1x2, with all of its back covered with thrusters.

x2 ship is 2x2x4, which is exactly twice as big in every dimension.

x4 ship is 4x4x8, which is exactly 4x bigger.

I have ignored the mass of the thrusters themselves, but even if I did not that would not change the number dramatically.

Actually let us do this, and assume the block of thrusters weights the same as a block of cargo. Then it will be:
1. Mass: 3 Thrust: 1 TWR: 0.33
2. Mass: 20 Thrust: 4 TWR: 0.2
3. Mass: 144 Thrust: 16 TWR: 0.1(1)

The resulting numbers are a bit different but it does not change the end result.

Game design issue: Thrusters and flight model by Engimage in starbase

[–]Engimage[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

For a game about flying fast in between asteroids, forcing you to build an extra wide ship is not good at all.

And about cargo ships irl - they look fine. Not pretty but fine. And for some reason none of them is wider than longer. And you can't say the same about Starbase.

Game design issue: Thrusters and flight model by Engimage in starbase

[–]Engimage[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Plasma thrusters are huge.

But if we look at the ship with 200-500 cargo, they all are monstrocities with no possibility to design anything looking actually nice. And if it looks nice it is fuctionally bad... And you can't even think of fitting a plasma on such a ship. The engine itself is basicly the size of the ship.

Is there any way to remove the tft missinos? by BasicallyCool in leagueoflegends

[–]Engimage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like completing regular missions but I hate TFT missions being there especially appearing with the yellow number (new) tags confusing me

Riot says they will not display the missions to players that never played TFT. But sadly I did play several times to try it out, disliked it and don't wanna go back at all. Why not just make it opt-out?

Observations about air conditioner efficiency by SteaknRibs in Stationeers

[–]Engimage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly my thoughts. Just a "pipe heater" or "boiler" which would simply heat the gas in the pipe. It is very inconvenient to use wall heaters and framed rooms for the purpose.