Long term travel

[Papahemmy]

I was playing the game one day for the first time after 1.0.5 and I saw the new electric thruster. So I thought what if there was a more powerful electric thruster that only needed electricity to work. Then I could make I ship that and recharge the thrusters and fly to one plant to the next without running out of thrust like with other liquid fuel ships. But I guess a infinite source of thrust on a rocket would by to overpowered and would make the game to easy. But that's just an idea that maybe in the future might become real.

Feel free to reply if you have any cool game ideas 

[John FX]

Welcome to the forums.

Sounds like a cool idea although personally I like the challenge of working within the restrictions set out by the rocket equation.

Would be good for a sandbox game where you just want to fly abouth though.

[Rath]

You mentioned that the ion thruster is new, but FYI it has been in the game for a very long time, .23 at least.  A 100% electric thruster would be: A, totally overpowered and B, physically impossible unless it had a magnetic field to push against.

Welcome to the forums!

*Be happy you came after the forum change, otherwise you would need to get used the new 'Facebook wants to sue us' design*  *Still bitter*

[Armisael]

8 minutes ago, Rath said:

You mentioned that the ion thruster is new, but FYI it has been in the game for a very long time, .23 at least.  A 100% electric thruster would be: A, totally overpowered and B, physically impossible unless it had a magnetic field to push against.

Theoretically speaking you could use interstellar hydrogen as your reaction mass - scoop it up as you fly along, and use it as your ion drive fuel. It'd require really truly mind-boggling amounts of electricity to get any reasonable amount of thrust (hydrogen is light, and interstellar hydrogen isn't particularly dense), but it should be possible.

[HebaruSan]

If you press alt-F12, there is a menu that allows you to enable an infinite fuel option. This is somewhat similar to adding such an engine, because as far as we know so far, such a thing is a fantasy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionless_drive

[Papahemmy]

On 3/26/2016 at 2:34 PM, Papahemmy said:

I was playing the game one day for the first time after 1.0.5 and I saw the new electric thruster. So I thought what if there was a more powerful electric thruster that only needed electricity to work. Then I could make I ship that and recharge the thrusters and fly to one plant to the next without running out of thrust like with other liquid fuel ships. But I guess a infinite source of thrust on a rocket would by to overpowered and would make the game to easy. But that's just an idea that maybe in the future might become real.

Feel free to reply if you have any cool game ideas 

Well how about this... A paint tool. Just some tool that will let someone color parts of their rocket or space place and would just make your rocket look pretty. it won't effect the rocket in any way that can make it crash. Does that sound like something that would be nice in the game.

Let me know about your thoughts about that