Enhance the dampener

John Smith shared this feedback 20 hours ago
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I would love to see the dampening options expanded. I get that it needs to be as simple as possible so it can be adjusted quickly, but I think a few relatively simple things could make a big difference.

Allowing individual axis to be toggled whether they are dampened would be huge. I know you can functionally do some of this by toggling thruster groups, but I think this would be much more useable and would make setting up a new ship much simpler as well as giving more room on the toolbar.

An option to either dampen along the gravity axis or just have the thrusters output just enough to cancel out the force from gravity would be very helpful. This would make flight so much easier in gravity. You could potentially do almost the same thing with the individual axis dampening if you can fly straight, but I think having it be its own option would be better

Another thing is adding rotation. I noticed in SE1 when I tried to make a perpetually rotating space station with an overridden gyro was that it was almost impossible to dock. If relative dampening tried to maintain the same relative position in relation to the target's orientation it would make stuff like that possible. I know this would be much more complicated to implement but it would be really cool.

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