IN space if you turn off your engines you don't stop you keep a contant speed. Unless you start thrusting in the opposite direction. In, REAL space anyways.
In starwars space yo udon't stop either... but it kinda depends how you look at it... I guess...
I think you do stop in SW space. SW ships have a maximum speed, and don't keep going faster. They essentially have the physics of a car.
They have the physics of unstallable VTOLs.
]]>Billions of micro air jets all over the hulls to give you a handle of ships like you're in - 9.80 M/S^2 gravity.
]]>+ angry space troopers
]]>stopped ships make easy targets for enemy fighters
We'll solve spawncamping in better ways than nerfing the abilities of ships
Unless the engine forces us to I don't think we'll be using newtonian physics though.
Why, constant thruster adjustments and spinning randomly out of control into oncoming capital ship hulls doesn't sound fun to you?
Me neither 
No one except the devs know what physics FS will use...
TY, I'm talking about apples and oranges, and you're talking about lightbulbs 
IN space if you turn off your engines you don't stop you keep a contant speed. Unless you start thrusting in the opposite direction. In, REAL space anyways.
In starwars space yo udon't stop either... but it kinda depends how you look at it... I guess...
I think you do stop in SW space. SW ships have a maximum speed, and don't keep going faster. They essentially have the physics of a car.
]]> We'll solve spawncamping in better ways than nerfing the abilities of ships Unless the engine forces us to I don't think we'll be using newtonian physics though.]]>ie. ships at 2/3 throttle and 1/3 throttle handle better than ships at full throttle, whilst obviously being at greater risk from the fact they are a slower moving target.
It might produce some interesting dogfights as people develop their prefered tactics. I'm not sure how hard it would be to implement though
]]>so it is my oppinion that fighters should be able to stop but the fighteres ability to turn should be greatly reduced when stopped
but whatever you guys decide to do will rule anyway
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thats why i try not to post long posts because it tends to confuse people 
]]>"Someone following you shut off your engines they fiy right buy you keep going"
]]>Well at the end of empire strikes back the falcon "stops" then uses its repulcers to lift it into the docking clamp does it not...
It doesn't stop, it slows down to match the speed of the Nebulon medical frigate, making it LOOK like it's stopped