A player asks what the IFCS numbers shown in SPViewer mean and asks for help understanding them.asked by fliph

These are just scaling numbers that we use to affect the flight handling. E.g. when thrusters are placed far from the center of mass of a ship, you do not need a lot of thrust to create torque as opposed to linear movement. So the modifiers help us balance things out. We can also use them for very quick tuning passes without rebalancing the whole flight tunung for a ship.

However when these numbers change, it does not necessarily mean that a ship performs better or worse. They can also be just corrective measures to compensate e.g. increases in ship mass, etc. So in short, these are not player facing values and you cannot infer from them if anything has actually changed.