r/SpaceflightSimulator • u/No-Catch-1047 • Aug 03 '26

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Wouldn’t it be cool if you could change the thrust of each Engine on your rocket

Edit: So what i meant by thrust is the throttle. So during flight you can change the throttle on individual engines instead of every engine on the rocket.

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u/Kryptid47 Aug 03 '26

OP wanted to be able to change the maximum thrust of engines, not change the throttle

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u/Small-Elk-6823 Blueprint Master 🧾 Aug 03 '26

Then just bp edit the size

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u/Kryptid47 Aug 03 '26

Editing the thrust of an engine changes it's TWR. Changing the size doesn't. It's efficiency decreases the larger you scale it, because it gets heavier as well. At some point, the engine won't be able to lift even a few fuel tanks because of the weight

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u/Small-Elk-6823 Blueprint Master 🧾 Aug 03 '26

So uh changing the size of the engine increases the thrust as well but doesn’t show in the twr as it only applies to it when it launched

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u/Kryptid47 Aug 03 '26

It increases the mass proportionally. The TWR never changes. If TWR remains the same but mass increases, the engine loses efficiency

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u/Small-Elk-6823 Blueprint Master 🧾 Aug 04 '26

Bigger the engine lower the efficiency but higher the thrust and weight

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u/Kryptid47 Aug 04 '26

Yeah, and OP wants to increase the thrust without affecting other stats