Thruster Limiter

[Hrgle Bleh]

Dear Squad, As for now the game is still in progress, I hope this idea might be quite helpful.

Thrust Limiter:

-It limits the thrust to whatever you do to it when you're in the VAB

-Disable Thrust Limiter

Hope you implement this:D

[Chi]

I don't get it, what do you mean my limiting the thrust in the VAB? What thrust? As far as I know, thrust is a reacton force, and physics are not simulated within the VAB, so what is this thrust you are talking about?

[Amram]

I think he's suggesting being able to re-scale the throttle for various engines. Set it in the VAB, but its effect occurs during usage of the engine in flight.

Right now, if you need half thrust from one engine, and full thrust from 2 other engines, and need to run all three together, you can't do it short of specialised mods. There's only one throttle, and so either all three at half, all three at full, or somewhere around 5/6. if you needed that one engine at a reduced throttle to balance an asymmetrical stage, that could be a problem.

If you can set an LV-T30 to 50% so it gives only 100 thrust instead of 200 thrust, and leave the other two alone, then when you ask for 80% throttle, two give you 160kN or 200*80%, the third gives you 80kN, or 200*50%*80%

It would certainly help with balancing various loads, such as a shuttle, without resorting to careful addition of LV-1's for a 1.5kN stepping and without the corresponding part count increase.

That said, If I understand what tweakables will likely permit when the day comes they are implemented, I do think this would fall under that. So its not official or anything, but I do think this will likely be in KSP at some point.

[UbioZur]

That said, If I understand what tweakables will likely permit when the day comes they are implemented, I do think this would fall under that. So its not official or anything, but I do think this will likely be in KSP at some point.

If it is implemented, I do believe also it would be part of tweakables (which is a planned feature to tweak data of the parts inside the VAB/SPH, like resources etc...).

At the moment you can have a look and see if the mod tweakable parameters does the job for you.

Or you can always duplicate the config file and modfify the thrust value.