Weight imbalance between "Small Batteries" and "Small Atmospheric Thrusters"

EDGE shared this feedback 2 years ago
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I've been working on small grid start up design for the last 3 weeks and run in to a problem that simply could not be solved.

I had some issues with weight and power to the thrustors and have tried to solve the problem by adding more thruster. Now adding more thruster means that I needed more power to avoid overpowering the power grid. Because I need more control over the shape of the small vehicle I used small batteries. Now adding small batteries made the ship heavier so I had to add more thrusters that also have their own weight to them. More thruster then needed more batteries and so on... The problem never solves itself before you start adding "Large Small grid Batteries" that completely messes up what I trying to achieve. Because there is no information about weight, It's becomes a never ending and time consuming problem that has cost the better part of three weeks just to come to the conclusion that this yet an other build simply can't be done in "Space engineers".

The solution is that ether the batteries need to get lighter or the thrusters need to get lighter and stronger.

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The problem could also be solved by giving small grid "Small batteries" more power.

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Some of the references I use (since you mentioned you don't have the weight):

https://spaceengineers.fandom.com/wiki/Small_Battery

https://spaceengineerswiki.com/Small_Battery

On the other hand, I had the same problem when trying to create a compact small atmo ship in the past months (I finnally scrapped the idea of making it vanilla and used Azimuth Remastered thrusters/cargo (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2264836144)

Hope this helps ;)

Alex

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Small grid small batteries are best suited for small space drones, not manned atmospheric craft. As you noticed, they don't have much power storage or much power output.

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