The Bule Abadi Darkness does get extra credit for being expensive, rare, and requiring a special skill. This is one of the few engines that came out just slightly worse than it was before, but there really isn't a way to improve it without improving all other engines, unless I make it more expensive to extract or else heavier or larger.

do all special skills count the same? Bule Mythology should be weighted more strongly than say piracy....

Why is FT Grape better then Emp Prop on test?

FT Grape / Emp
Tech- 19 / 20
thrust- 11300 / 12200
turning-2793 / 3870
vis- 293 / 216
size- 28 / 26
weight-252k / 246k
Tweak- Speed +10% / Speed +11%
Tweak- Docking +49% / Turning +4%

are the stats as i understand it.

Capital Engines are problematic because they are labeled as tech 10 when they are supposed to be balanced as tech 20. I will beef them a little bit more, though, by making them think they are from Free Market.

I could make the Grape Influence and FT "slightly stealthy", which would reduce its stats. Though lots of engines ended up with huge beefs like that one in order to balance out with some of the other high end engines and fit along the usual power curve that all items have.

Quiet Thrust never had 0 vis, but rather 0.002 vis, which mattered in the old stealth/visibility system but is pretty indistinguishable from 0 in the current one. My thinking on it now was that 10 visibility seems like a reasonable minimum vis for player-obtainable engines. If you guys really want, I can make a special category for just this engine and put it at 1 vis, but really, under the current visibility system, I think 10 vis is already extremely low, especially if you're tapping your acceleration key.



The Bule Abadi Darkness does get extra credit for being expensive, rare, and requiring a special skill. This is one of the few engines that came out just slightly worse than it was before, but there really isn't a way to improve it without improving all other engines, unless I make it more expensive to extract or else heavier or larger.

i dont see why the Rcharge is being nerfed so bad..granted it was out of proportion slightly compared to the others in it's class..but in it's defense it is hull specific to the heaviest ships in game.

considering he updated all of the engines, then had to re-do the engine visibility for all the engines xD

It may be balanced if you have a fully decked out Rhino...but, ward+ with something like a Giga Misd is a hell of a lot lighter than the "ideal" Rhino.

As soon as you apply that 500m engine to a much lighter setup, it becomes broken. If the ward+ weighed as much as the rhino, then yea, less of a nerf is needed.