On Thruster Mechanics

[Valshala]

I have been studying traders and ships In general and made my own trade ships using the haul goods mod to work out why npc trade ships were having trouble docking and crashing..  I never played the game before gyro's were released to compare how it was back then, but here are my conclusions from my study.

 

An npc trader who relies on gyro's will frequently have problems even turning into the docking lights because they cannot strafe very well or even strafe at all..  I can make a trade ship using solely directional thrusters that never crashes once ever by following a few simple steps..  The acceleration must by slightly higher than the brake thrust so that the ship can strafe backwards adequately and making sure the ship does not accelerate too fast..

 

My conclusion is to make gyro's allow strafing or add a strafe drive block and we can see the back of npc traders crashing and acting weird.  I would also like to see set docking points for each good traded by a station like numbered docking blocks for example.

[Ohm is Futile]

My conclusion is to make gyro's allow strafing or add a strafe drive block and we can see the back of npc traders crashing and acting weird.

No. Different blocks, different purposes.