I was curious whether the power of maneuvering thrusters was different between ships with equal mass. I tried to test this with the Asp Scout and the Diamondback Scout. The reason why I picked these two ships is because, by appearance and thruster placement, it would seem like the Asp Scout would be much better at having ventral thrust.
When I look at the Diamondback Scout, it has huge main engines. It appears to be a scout made for space exploration. When I look at the ASP Scout, it has much smaller main engines but many more thrusters around the rest of the body of the ship. It appears to be a scout that would be good at planet exploration. Especially one with high gravity where having strong ventral thrusters would be very useful.
Well, I did my best to make everything equal. They had the same type of thrusters and the same mass. As far as I could tell, there is no difference between the two of them. However, it would be cool if the two different Scout lines we're good at different types of exploration. The ASP line would be good at landing on planets, especially those with high gravity. While the Diamondback Scouts would be better at space exploration because of their greater speed and theoretically jump range. Although, the jump range between the Diamondback Explorer and the ASP Explorer is pretty close, I think. And I'm not suggesting that you have to have one or the other to explore a planet or be good at exploring space. It just might be cool if they each excelled in a particular area.
So I did the best I could with the testing but maybe I didn't do something right. I read on a Wiki, I think it was fandom, that the maneuvering thrusters had different strengths depending on what kind of ship. But it doesn't appear that the number of thrusters on a particular side of the ship make it any better at thrusting in that direction. Hopefully somebody can correct me if I am wrong.
When I look at the Diamondback Scout, it has huge main engines. It appears to be a scout made for space exploration. When I look at the ASP Scout, it has much smaller main engines but many more thrusters around the rest of the body of the ship. It appears to be a scout that would be good at planet exploration. Especially one with high gravity where having strong ventral thrusters would be very useful.
Well, I did my best to make everything equal. They had the same type of thrusters and the same mass. As far as I could tell, there is no difference between the two of them. However, it would be cool if the two different Scout lines we're good at different types of exploration. The ASP line would be good at landing on planets, especially those with high gravity. While the Diamondback Scouts would be better at space exploration because of their greater speed and theoretically jump range. Although, the jump range between the Diamondback Explorer and the ASP Explorer is pretty close, I think. And I'm not suggesting that you have to have one or the other to explore a planet or be good at exploring space. It just might be cool if they each excelled in a particular area.
So I did the best I could with the testing but maybe I didn't do something right. I read on a Wiki, I think it was fandom, that the maneuvering thrusters had different strengths depending on what kind of ship. But it doesn't appear that the number of thrusters on a particular side of the ship make it any better at thrusting in that direction. Hopefully somebody can correct me if I am wrong.
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