Yea the Rocinante is a cool attempt to design a hard physics combat ship, a part of the inspiration for the game was the slingshotter Belters not the MCR. Manéo is remembered.

Check out the Y Que. https://expanse.fandom.com/wiki/Y_Que

I’ll be working on a very short rapid tutorial explaining as much as I can and put a tutorial button on the main home screen.

Thank you, that’s good to know about the initial scaling, I’ll set it to 100% instead of 50%, also knowing you have to exit to adjust is good to know, I’ll make a proper dedicated exit button on the settings page. As stated previously this is what I’ll do regarding ship rotation and size:

The ship size I will be scaling up by about 20% on screen, along with adding a white arrow that points in the direction it’s facing, similar to the yellow force arrows which can be toggled on and off, and I’ll add a feature to separate the toggle so you can turn off force arrows while keeping the direction arrow.

I won’t be making ships a certain shape to make them easier to know which way they’re pointed. Because space has no air, no need for aerodynamics.

There’s an entire replay system where you can see all other player’s runs, easily by clicking the leaderboard runs, or going to a user’s profile history. If you’re playing the easy map and it’s too easy, and you’re sitting waiting for 2-3 minutes, check out the fastest run which are around 25 seconds on both Prime and Reach. I’m glad you found the more difficult maps more enjoyable. The easy maps are genuinely meant to be for people who have no concept of orbital mechanics at all. Where as a map like Apollo is for someone skilled in capturing a moon’s orbit manually. So if you want a challenge then do the Apollo map, you’ll be burning and rotating in all directions.

You can also make your own maps with the map making system! https://slingshotspeeders.com/m/vnocbt8g

Thank you for the feedback, I have a solution as mentioned in another comment just to make sure you saw:

The ship size I will be scaling up by about 20% on screen, along with adding a white arrow that points in the direction it’s facing, similar to the yellow force arrows which can be toggled on and off, and I’ll add a feature to separate the toggle so you can turn off force arrows while keeping the direction arrow.

On mobile I could add an indicator to the top of the screen like an icon which displays an arrow representing ship angle rotation.

Seriously thank you for the feedback and I’m glad you like the idea. Scaling should work if you go to settings, and rebinding R to something else. I have made the adamant decision to never add time controls to the core simulation for multiple reasons, but I encourage you to try to map making system to make tighter faster maps. Most maps are already under 2 minutes to complete, but indeed the easy once involve only two major maneuvers unlike the hard ones.

The ship size I will be scaling up by about 20% on screen, along with adding a white arrow that points in the direction it’s facing, similar to the yellow force arrows which can be toggled on and off, and I’ll add a feature to separate the toggle so you can turn off force arrows while keeping the direction arrow.

The point of QE to rotate is to provide meaning and skill to ship main thrust vectoring, which is much more realistic similar to a game like Rocket League. You can use RCS but it’s only 50% as powerful and doesn’t have afterburner. Did you have issues choosing increasing the scaling in the settings? On my phone I typically do 150% and it allows for up to 200%. Thanks again for playing!

I seriously appreciate it, thank YOU. Please let me know if you have any suggestions or issues while playing. I’m completely open to any feedback. Anyone who plays signed in will be receiving a free exclusive variant of the Brick hull that will persist beyond the wipe. No one will be able to obtain it once the Season Zero begins.

I created a FAQ https://slingshotspeeders.com/faq

You can think whatever you want, go ahead.

That’s only if you have no idea what you’re doing with it. Depending on your skill level in development, that is not the case at all.

Bluetooth is fine for mobile.

Using AI with Rust compiler is a combination that’s worked well for me many times already. You can check out https://slingshotspeeders.com/ if you want to experience compiled Rust in the browser using Bevy 0.19 for an orbital mechanics simulation racing game for free with no account easily.

Shut it down.

All the sloppers are torn about this, but Torvalds has undeniable mastery at this, so it’s great to see AI being used as a beneficial tool. If there’s a single person who should have unlimited access to the most powerful AI models, it should be Linus Torvalds.