Dorsal Thrusters
V1.1.1 – 20 NOV 22:
Removed roof-blocking. They will still be blocked by components which block other roof-mounted items, such as Deck Guns.
Removed Tristeel cost. Compensated by increasing Steel cost.
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V1.1.0 – 19 NOV 22:
These now block other roof-mounted components such as Deck Guns and other Dorsal Thrusters. Blueprint invalid? It’s probably because your Dorsal Thrusters are blocking something they didn’t used to block. Sorry about that, but this was a necessary growing pain to bring them towards something vaguely resembling balance.
Increased the Steel & Coil cost; added Tristeel to the price.
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Adds a dorsal (roof-mounted) thruster which isn’t restricted to the exteriors of ships.
Dorsal thrusters be can mounted anywhere without interfering with other parts of the ship. They still benefit from Engine Rooms, meaning you can design engineering to be anywhere on your ship. While this certainly breaks vanilla ship design, I did try to balance them to some degree. Dorsal Thrusters are slightly more expensive and less powerful than their vanilla counterparts. They’re also limited to two doors only.
Message me on Steam or Reddit (u/Charlatangle) if you’d like to improve the artwork—particularly the normal maps. I am not good at art.
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Size: 2×3
Cost:
64 Steel
16 Coils
Thrust:
2,800 kiloNewtons
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Possible improvements:
* Better artwork and normal maps (engine shroud to extend partially over the nozzle). Or just overhauled art.
* Add extra sizes.
