Hello Andrew

Thanks for SCC, that's really great! I use it for my Atmo multi-purpose ship (transporter / miner). It would be great if I could also use SCC for my shuttle (planet-to-space). At the moment the ship only has Hydro propulsion, but as soon as I find platinum in my current game, I will convert the shuttle to Atmo + Ion. To do this, however, SCC would have to be able to control Atmo and Ion separately. This means that when the ship starts from the planet, first Atmo and as soon as Atmo no longer perform, switch to Ion.

You have written:

"Yes, it is programmatically impossible to distinguish the type of engines,"

This is possible, I myself use a method to distinguish between oxygen and hydrogen for gas tanks for my Airlock script. I have only had SE (love it) for a few months but have already written a few scripts for my personal needs. These were also my first C# programs, usually I program in other languages.

You can use the "BlockDefinition" property of the "IMyCubeBlock" interface to determine the internal name of the thruster. Then you can use the known list of names to determine the exact type of thruster:

https://github.com/malware-dev/MDK-SE/wiki/Type-Definition-Listing

If that would help you, I could write a function that you can then integrate into SCC to identify the thrusters. You just have to tell me how you want the function to be called and what exactly should be returned.