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Dorsal Thrusters
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Dorsal Thrusters

Description
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 if you'd like to improve the artwork—particularly the normal maps. I am not good at art.

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Size: 2x3

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.
45 Comments
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hailstorm46 Mar 26, 2024 @ 5:34pm 
This mod doesn't look maintained, so I made a patch mod to fix the engine room problem: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3202252013
Chef Smudge'nt Mar 17, 2024 @ 10:25am 
The update basically broke half my ships, can you fix these please. They dont seem to work when attached to an engine room
Fedral Mar 16, 2024 @ 8:38am 
Since the last update. all my Dorsal Thrusters dont seem to be working. Is anyone else having this issue?
Ren'Dahu Nation Mar 3, 2024 @ 2:07pm 
@Enderluck. Dorsal. means its on top of the ship. there fore base level stuff is below the thruster.
The Barrage Dec 15, 2023 @ 1:14pm 
@Thundercraft:

You may want to consider publishing your version of the mod for now, since this version seems to currently be an orphan. I know that I'd love to try it with your tweaks!

My thoughts in situations like these are that if you've

1.) made a good-faith effort to contact the author;
2.) the mod doesn't include language asking/telling people not to make derivative or spin-off mods;
3.) you are explicit in your own mod description that it is an offshoot of the original mod, including link and credit to the original author and noting that were unable to reach the author for affirmative permission; and
4.) clearly communicate that you will take down the mod should the original author return and request that you do so;

that you're doing a service for/improving/benefiting the community by updating a mod that people enjoy.

I'm certainly not The Decider for these things, but I think it's a pretty decent stance. :)
RaiderLeader666 Nov 29, 2023 @ 8:41am 
Does this still work?
Enderluck Aug 19, 2023 @ 2:52pm 
Why the 2 doors limit? It is quite weird, I can recall on any normal part that has that type of special limitation.
Enderluck Aug 19, 2023 @ 1:37pm 
Hi, why are you able to put a dorsal thruster right after another dorsal thruster? Shouldn't the fire of the first thruster prevent you from putting a second thruster behind?
Fire666 Jul 19, 2023 @ 10:12am 
can you update this to the newest version of cosmoteer please?
Thundercraft Jul 6, 2023 @ 9:22am 
@charlatan_ [author]:
(part 1)
Quote, "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."

I tried to contact you on Reddit. But I could not find u/Charlatangle. And how can we contact you via Steam? You disabled comments on your profile. While I sent a friend invite over 2 weeks ago (going on 3), it's still pending.

Quote, "...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."

I like this mod. However, we may disagree slightly about game balance. I think by late game, the usefulness of the Large Thruster is somewhat limited. The Huge Thruster (and other thrusters added by popular mods) is much more thrust efficient. So I dislike the idea of nerfing the thrust.