More Simpler Platform Drag


Makes ship drag force linearly proportional to speed and average width-height instead of width-only quadratic drag. Top speed of fully thrustered ship becomes dependent on width-to-height ratio rather than nearly constant.

10 hours ago
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Factorio: Space Age Icon Space Age Mod
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nullptr0x0
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MIT
Created:
10 hours ago
Latest Version:
1.0.0 (10 hours ago)
Factorio version:
2.0
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Widescreen-friendly Space Age

Makes platform drag force linearly proportional to speed and average width-height instead of width-only quadratic drag.

This makes the top speed of space platforms with full thrusters depend on the width-to-height ratio instead of maintaining a nearly constant ~500 km/s.

Further details

old formula

(thrust / (1 + weight / 10000000) - ((1500 * speed * speed + 1500 * abs(speed)) * (width * 0.5) + 10000) * sign(speed)) / weight / 60

new formula

(thrust / (1 + weight / 10000000) - (3000 * abs(speed) * (width + height) + 10000)) * sign(speed) / weight / 60

Credits

The implement of this mod was inspired by Rocs-Improved-Platform-Drag