Would it be possible to link the force of the directional thrusters to the throttle, down to a minimum force?asked by Rhapsody
TL;DRThe developers call linking directional thruster force to the throttle a cool idea and say they're exploring throttle scaling for finer control in congested areas, with no commitment to that specific feature.
So, that's actually a really cool idea. It's something kind of along the lines of what we're exploring right now with some of the ship, thruster, and acceleration updates that we're doing. I mean, it's just a lot of tuning it and work for it to make sure that... what that throttle point is. One - Is it easy to access that and make sure that you don't have to do five different hotkeys to get into that throttle but also making sure that you get out of it quick enough and that's not a weird sticky context.
We're definitely exploring some methods by where your throttle is not so sensitive, so you're not going from huge amounts of thrust with small changes to your throttle input. So, a good example would be: In congested areas where you don't necessarily... you know, you want a bit more fine control over your throttle. So we're definitely looking at ways of scaling the throttle itself.