It would look retarded on 95% of ships. What does your engine do, turn itself around backwards and start exhausting on your ship?

95% of c2 looks retarded. this would fit stylistically.

game play wise i think it could be very cool.

A fixed engine with an exhaust in one direction can't move a ship forwards and in reverse. Doesn't make sense, and it will look straight retarded. Why would you even need to go in reverse?(barring the argument for kiting backwards, that's the laziest argument i've ever read for this game, fuck off)

OOH IDEA

'Vent engine plasma from the front of your ship to give you a boost backwards'
'Rerouting vents to direct the plasma'
'Venting plasma !!'

Adds 10 speed reverse.

Fuck off? Merry Xmas shitwit. Take it personal.. Plz.

This is exactly why sbp has a bad name.

Idea has merit.

My team forbidden from posting in this topic.

Sbp wants to flame me I'd like that to be clear.

GET THE FLAME THROWER HAHAHA YOU GONNA DIE

Oh and..just cause 1 person flames you doesnt mean that thats all off SBPs oppinion...

I'm gonna call a bad idea when i see it, and implementing "reverse thrusters" so you can kite backwards is a horrible idea for several reasons. Not to mention ZERO SHIP MODELS HAVE ENGINE PORTS IN THE FRONT. So if you want to go add engine ports to every ship model, feel free to do so.

Not to mention:


Ergo your ship already thrusts in reverse for the braking effect.
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The only thing I see with this is that it might weaken gremlin effects, in essence defeating or partially defeating no turning grems. Being able to lock someone in a straight line and then tractor them a bit was a pretty powerful ability against someone with low ZoC, for seer and reaver pilots. Other than that I don't think it would really add or take away anything from them game. It's not exactly a big concern I have, just a minor one. If implemented though it should have a separate button (naturally) from breaking so you can slow to a dead stop or throw on full reverse power as you choose.

Thx bigee and sky

Engine ports are ez for amateur programmers to place as I understand it.

I think you could make it equal in strength to brake or bit stronger, not much more though.

Would make agility and skill emphasized. Think of dogfights! Gamechanging.

Also why every ship? Vwhy not certain ones.

Also why not separate engines entirely to equip?

could be really cool on future ships.

Ie lateral thrusters. Maybe 4 actual separate engines. Ie a LF with -tracking -thrust +dmg with 4 engine ports. If you are genius enoughto pilot it could be uber.

I found this very amusing.

Please refer to my other post and vote for moar forbiddenness from posting hehe

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The reason this idea is shit, is because it makes up for the lack of skill on a player. Say implementing stuff that saves time, thats perfectly fine. Implementing a reverse thruster simply because DoW can't kite properly at the correct speed is not fine.

Apart from this, but a reverse thruster would make the game sort of corny. Currently the controls are "sort of" unique but if you put in reverse thrusters it will remind me of racing games in a bad way.