1.7 came as a little bit of a surprise to me, until I looked further.

Pros

• New effects, I love them.
• New parts, they're rather useful in some situations.
• I like that fleet north of yeager, fun to play around with the flak cannons.
• The tools are nice, albeit just a simplified version if fine tuner and overload.
• They finally fixed the 'enter' key, last time I used it I became a dreidel.
• Finally, dogfights can't be judged by first shot.

Cons

• No new islands or additions to the map as I've been longing for since last year (with the exception for the fleet near yeager, but I'm talking about a new island).
• Very simple, there isn't much that's useful when compared to 1.5 or 1.6.
• The damage model doesn't scale parts up when shot with a few bullets.
• Engine fire lasts too short, the fire should stop after a while but the smoke should stay there the whole time.
• You still can't rapid fire bombs or missiles, which is something I've been wanting since 1.3.
• No additions for multiple inputs on for rotators or control surfaces.
• Somehow tires catch fire, tanked with fuel as reserves..
• Nudge increment change makes things way worse to nudge parts towards each other (leaves dead space or is inside each other on the edges)
• Rise and Run isn't boosted along with the size scaling of fuselage
• Cannot enter numbers larger than 10 without overload
  

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What could be added or improved upon in the full release

• Make the fire last longer, but the smoke stays until the part is destroyed
• Add a couple small airports dotted on different islands where there could be some (mainly on wright).
• LET US SPAM BOMBS AND MISSILES
• Give me my old nudge increment back
• Give us the rise and run maximum value 5 rather than 2.5
• I also want fuselage blocks the ability to become giant beacon lights (for tron builds)
  

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Heck