03-27-2022, 02:53 PM
(03-27-2022, 01:17 PM)GaelicVigil Wrote: 1. Slower Rocket Engines.
Rockets and rocket drive ships should not be able to zip around your solar system so fast. They should have a top speed much lower than the grav drive. I think it would be neat (and realistic) to experience a long journey to another planet in your solar system the first couple times.
The game only has one top speed, and that is the speed of light. Everything is based on acceleration and you can definitely make a spacecraft that has faster acceleration than a space rocket. Newtonian physics likely won't be changed like that, and I doubt it would add to immersion to have a top-speed imposed on space vehicles.
What would help to achieve this would be bigger solar systems. Simply more spacing between the otbit zones and between the sun and the inner most orbit zone. The orbits are very close together and it makes it easy to see other worlds and travel to them is fast. But I wouldn't say it is a major issue, this is not KSP, not everything has to be perfect scale.