Rotate Engine?

[Apocolyptica]

How the hell do you rotate the engine on the green axis?

[Thalibahn]

Engines can't be rotated

[Apocolyptica]

Originally posted by Thalibahn:

Engines can't be rotated

So you have to design your ship around which way the engine will be oriented? That's silly..

[Tyrantosaurex]

Originally posted by Apocolyptica:

Originally posted by Thalibahn:

Engines can't be rotated

So you have to design your ship around which way the engine will be oriented? That's silly..

Try driving your car in reverse down a major highway, then let's see how silly it is. Jokes aside though, there's a good number of people who feel like engines/thrusters need a chave - so we're likely to see it be addressed later.

[UNSC_Spartan-043]

A car is kinda..... well anything is kinda a bad analogy of a space ship. If you fly properly you burn toward your target then 180 and burn in reverse to stop. Plus you dont want a bunch of normally useless engines/weight facing forward and sucking energy. But that being said i would like to be able to put a couple smaller engines facing forwards instead of a crap ton of thrusters to approach stations with any kind of reasonable speed. But you can get around it with the turn and burn by aiming next to the stations and such instead of at them. Then just burn hard when you get along side them.

[DreadZep]

i think the way its implemented is to force people to do flip and burn manuevers to stop large ships. which ecconomically will be the way ships stop themselves in a vacuum for the next several hundred years of human space travel. im not against forcing this arbitrary realism aspect but there needs to be a better vector adjustment overlay, as it is you look at a purple bar and wait for it to turn yellow and just kind of guess where your vector was going based on how yellow the bar is. it's dumb.

[Swagmaster Love 🇪🇺]

Originally posted by Apocolyptica:

Originally posted by Thalibahn:

Engines can't be rotated

So you have to design your ship around which way the engine will be oriented? That's silly..

Its silly once and not anymore when you know about it.

[Jarhead0331]

Its a game you science and newtonian geniuses. You should be able to design the ship however you want. If there is a detriment to designing it with nultiple facing engines, such as , weight, fuel consumption ,etc., than that should be modelled too and if other designs are superior, it will show. Get off your science high horses and just accept its an unnecessary artificial limitation to a game that is marketed as a sandbox builder.