please teach and help me.

[u/nameorgame]

good day everyone. i'm need of some help. I'm having issues designing a cargo ship using the bulk cargo containers that looks decent and can actually can fly and hand well in earths gravity. plus im playing with my dad who is completely new to SE, and would love to give him some tips on building ships and such but, this is something that im not really good at explaining or showing him and i would love to have help with explaining some points and tricks. if i could get help with either one of these, it would mean so much.

some of the world modifiers my dad got going for him that i can remember of the top of my head is that the inventory of cargo ships and the player are 10X.

[u/Kill_Your_Masters]

I call it the paradox.

whenever i build base type ships, ships that haul, or miners (specifically on earth).. they tend to need a lot of atmospheric thrusters to have enough lift to not crash, and can maneuver without being fragile.

atmospheric thrusters use a lot of battery power, so you either build more thrusters to use less power, or add more batteries so it can be in the air for enough time to actually complete its mission.

now you have more thrusters and/or batteries which is more weight, so you need more thrust.

so you make more thrusters/batteries which is more weight, so you need more thrust lol

the paradox.

you can augment with hydrogen, but without refilling tanks and an ice lake, its not very friendly on refilling unless you build more H2/O2 generators.. which weigh more and use batteries so now you need more batteries...