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Post by princesskibble on Sept 6, 2016 22:40:15 GMT
Vernier thrusters are primarily what is used for rolling a ship. But you can roll without verniers if you have at least two gimballed main rocket engines.
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acatalepsy
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Post by acatalepsy on Sept 27, 2016 15:05:58 GMT
I did do some research on heat sinks. The single-use nature heavily dissuaded me from persuing them further, given that you'd need very large "ammo" stores of coolant, costing a lot of one-off mass and volume. On the plus side, they could be hidden entirely within the spacecraft. It seems to be a highly requested feature though, so it would definitely be a prime candidate for a future update. Heat Sinks would be a godsend against missiles because they usually have short engagement windows and home on IR, so being able to retract them even for a minute or two would improve a craft's survivability by a lot. Not just against missiles; any relatively quick (hundreds to thousands of m/s) combat pass benefits from the ability to retract radiators to protect them from combat damage for a few minutes. I try to make sure I have redundant radiators so I can retract at least some of them in combat to prevent their being sniped by high speed drone passes or long range laser fire. Also relevant: The ability to retract any radiators that are pointing towards the enemy
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Post by Crazy Tom on Sept 28, 2016 3:04:15 GMT
Not just against missiles; any relatively quick (hundreds to thousands of m/s) combat pass benefits from the ability to retract radiators to protect them from combat damage for a few minutes. I try to make sure I have redundant radiators so I can retract at least some of them in combat to prevent their being sniped by high speed drone passes or long range laser fire. Also relevant: The ability to retract any radiators that are pointing towards the enemy Of course, the problem with that is that even a single decoy launcher will make a 100 missile salvo go streaking off into the void. We badly need radar tracking or better AI to discriminate between an IR point source like a flare and a blob like a ship.
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Post by argonbalt on Sept 30, 2016 3:20:31 GMT
Yeah the homing modules are not really optimised, i have deeked out 90+ missile volies with two or three flak missiles.
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