Wheels should have extra braking power
Suggestion: Give wheel suspensions a separate braking power that is stronger than acceleration power and adds to the normal power when reversing its currenty velocity.
Every wheeled vehicle we built in the real workd can decelerate a lot faster than it can accelerate because it doesn't use inverted torque from its propulsion system but braking pads to quickly convert kinetic energy into thermal energy.
Space Engineers' wheels unfortunately are lacking of this simple concept of wheel brakes, making vehicles feel cumbersome to decelerate - unlike our own real life experience with cars.
I propose that the wheel suspension block gets a second property/slider to adjust its "braking power" which ranges form 0 to 100% and represents the extra power from its brakes. As long as the vehicle's acceleration vector is in opposition to its current velocity vector, braking power force should be added to the regular propulsion power.
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