Have a "Speed limit" to prevent ships being vanished to the ninth circle of hell randomly

[pure creek]

Everyone knows how ships can sometimes bug and disappear, well what if the ships had a speed limit, and if they go too fast the movement just doesn't count as if it had actually happened, like players if you go to fast

[digital verge]

not planned

because

1. the limit would have to be so high so as to not interfere with addons that it won't really help if your ship yeets anyway
2. VS shouldn't enforce limits like that onto every addon. If a specific addon wants to have a speed limit, they can, but its their decision

[white light]

i like that answer

[marsh bobcat]

just make it a config option

[vapid jay]

What about a limit on the acceleration?

[wooden gate]

also fucks with addons and stuff like physics bearings

[mossy rock]

As to not interfere, it could be either:
-a line in a config, turned off by default(already suggested)
-a block, which you need to place on the ship(like an airbrake, or something like that) which allows you to set a speed limit for the affected ship

It could be as simple as just capping entity's speed(like stuff Paper does) or applying a sort of coefficient, reducing entity's acceleration(like inverse quadratic/inverse sigmoid of one's speed)

[marsh bobcat]

I prefer the airbrake to the config tbh but it would be a bit more work to implement. Also feels more like addon territory than the config

[digital verge]

It’s way better for each addon to implement their own speed limit

That their thrust blocks won’t accelerate past

[warm pumice]

At this point what doesn’t

[jade lintel]

If you're going to place blocks on ships anyway you might as well put a clutch with redstone receiver and then just shut off the engine remotely.

[mossy rock]

Yeah, that's a good idea as well!

I've just suggested the idea with config, because I ran into the speed issue myself :D
Basically, I host a server for a few friends on some "straight from the dumpster"-quality server,. And it's not fast enough to send chunk info when you fly on a fast ship(or elytra for that matter). I tried hacking together a patch, but as it turns out, I'm too dumb for that ;-;

And it's something that doesn't require each player to tweak their ship designs(like if a player uses someone else's schematic or the ship is just small and doesn't have free space for the redstone stuff)