Azorien

It irks me that game has arbitrary conditions like thrusters being unable to participate in thrusting ship forward, engines not being able to be rotated, etc. And combination of these mechanics feel like developers trying to impose a certain way how ship should be built and how it should be flown despite description of game telling "You can build your own personal ship just as you wish to." A cheap fix: - Allow thrusters to participate in forward thrust A more radical fix: - Have thrusters use engine appearance - Add single direction thrusters - Allow thrusters to participate in forward thrust - Replace engine with new block specifically for boosting I see no better than "just because" reason for having 2 different blocks that do the same thing - accelerating ship in certain direction - and having arbitrary limitation forcing player to use both of them on every build. And one of them happens to be a package deal with turbo boost included but then engineers in entire galaxy had forgotten how to rotate it just as they forgot to turn on thrusters at back of their ship just because developers only believe in forward turbo boost. Perhaps the radical fix could have the "forward turbo boost" religion move to separate house and allow regular thrust mechanics to be free of limitations it imposed. This became a problem for me when I wanted to shave down the weight of my ship (surprise - not all people believe in "bigger is better" and enjoy flying small agile ships) and looked for what component can be discarded. "I don't really need turbo boost so I could get rid of engine" I thought. Well - a ship can still be flown if I am cool with constant flashing reminder "this is not how we want you to play our game" in form of low acceleration warning and having to accelerate sideways in direction i want. I could also ditch thrusters and only rely on engine provided i am OK extra amount of rotation to adjust ship's flight direction that will be needed. These exotic ships can't be given to the AI though, it doesn't know what to do with it and just stares at you with confused eyes. One positive thing to end this post - I love that this game allows removing speed cap and making space ship flight actually space-like. Although it does take a slot which I don't have all that much of given I like small ships.