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Post by dragonkid11 on Oct 17, 2016 15:07:36 GMT
So...tweaking and upgrading my saucer spacecraft yet again. If Mark 4 looks like an very old fashioned flying saucer, Mark 5 could be described as a modern sleeker version of it. I meant just look at it, it looks like freaking Enterprise. For armor scheme, I used Nivik's armor composition which worked quite well for its price but it's bloody heavy. With its current slope, Mark 5 can deflect bullet like nothing. Well, for most of the time at least. Here's the internal Basically, ammo and drone on top, crew compartment in the middle, fuel tanks and then finally the small sized nuclear reactor at the bottom. Might experiment with osmium half armor to all of the front instead, since the back of it won't be facing anything anytime soon.
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Post by dragonkid11 on Oct 17, 2016 11:45:26 GMT
Technically, plasma thrusters are worth it but only for ship that is intended to go for long distance because holy shit, that ship is just a giant space lamp.
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Post by dragonkid11 on Oct 17, 2016 1:58:14 GMT
That's...
That's genius.
How well did work?
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Post by dragonkid11 on Oct 17, 2016 1:55:11 GMT
For coilgun, I use iron because they are dirt cheap and pretty much the only thing that worked beside Magnetic glass and nickle iron molybdenum.
Also suprisingly enough, I used DIAMOND as round and it some how works well.
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Post by dragonkid11 on Oct 16, 2016 14:34:13 GMT
Cannon: Try use anything else besides depleted uranium for the rounds, which is absurdly expensive here.
I managed to use DIAMOND as round and it somehow works well and cheaply too.
Railgun: Calcium could also be used as a low power and VERY light weight alternative for barrel.
However, get in high power level and you need to thicken it by a lot due to its softness.
Armor: DO NOT use boron in thick layer of more than 1.5 cm or so. Hell, maybe even lower.
They turn from okay protection to fragmentation the thicker they go.
Using very thin layer of dense material like osmium backed by something like amorphous carbon seems to be doing okay in deflect projectile for a while.
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Post by dragonkid11 on Oct 16, 2016 9:17:54 GMT
It's kinda a shame that both of them are really expensive.
1cm of aramid fibre on my 1.5 kt ship costs something like 5 millions credit or more.
The whole thing costs 20 mc.
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Post by dragonkid11 on Oct 16, 2016 5:37:24 GMT
Yeah, putting thrusters sideway can make any spacecraft moving weirdly. Still, your drone look absolutely shiny with that paint coating. Hmm...maybe I should make some cheap disk shaped drones... EDIT: Honestly, after spending a whole day trying to figure out how make flying saucers, these are finished rather quickly. Still have no idea how well they work in the field, gonna test them out later. EDIT 2: Okay, they are decent, but compared to normal drone, they are simply lacking. The maneuverability of disk shaped space craft caused micro disk drone to jiggle around instead, causing them to not be able to aim even with a gimballed gun and generally become an unstable out of control spacecraft.
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Post by dragonkid11 on Oct 16, 2016 4:42:48 GMT
After finding a viable but kind expensive armor and have one pain in the ass editting because of the radial armor setting... This is as cheap as I could get. The aramid fiber and Vanadium chromium steel layer, which consist of the 50% price of the freaking spacecraft (75% before reduction) become half armored to protect against light projectile. They still does absolutely nothing against the 286mm stock coilgun, but not much armor can handle that either anyway. The image is outdated because I decided to reduce the vanadium chromium steel layer back to 1cm, reducing the price to only 21.5 mc. As for why I don't use the old armor setting? Turn out boron isn't the super material for everything because it shatters from impact and basically rip everything inside into shred. It's bloody cheap for a reason. Still, the spacecraft is still dirt cheap for what its worth compared to stock spacecraft, so I say it's worth it. Now... Does anyone have any good armor idea for crew compartment? Because reinforced carbon-carbon is freaking expensive... Also anyone has any idea on how to reduce crew number? Because I want to reduce the size of the crew compartment too... Seriously, I know how to change everything but crew compartment just baffles me!
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Post by dragonkid11 on Oct 16, 2016 0:40:22 GMT
I finally did it. This is an old version, the next version has updated armor and is freaking expensive. Dammit armor, stop being so expensive.
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Post by dragonkid11 on Oct 15, 2016 15:24:11 GMT
For space rave party.
What? What do you think rich people in this verse spent their money on?
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Post by dragonkid11 on Oct 15, 2016 11:41:32 GMT
Haven't noticed the resistojets . I'm still deep in making the smallest useful missile. Remote control now seems awfully large however Well, if we could modify remote control, all of us would make it as tiny as possible.
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Post by dragonkid11 on Oct 15, 2016 5:13:59 GMT
This was supposed to be an impractical, expensive silly design. WHY DOES IT WORKS SO WELL!?
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Post by dragonkid11 on Oct 15, 2016 2:09:55 GMT
After seeing nerd1000's saucer warship design, I tried to make Broken Quiver into that form. Hint, tried. Introducing the Alien Quiver Mark 1 In which it is heavier, more expensive than the original Broken Quiver and it looks like a giant potato. Also the acceleration calculation is screwed up for some reasons despite having same number of thrusters. The only advantage it has? It can shoot EVERY single gun it currently has in one facing. This thing is rather difficult to build and honestly, I really want it to be as flat as possible but that's not possible with the construction style in CoDE. Edit: I took the thing to a ride on a gun duel. AND THE IT SOMEHOW MANAGED TO DEFEAT MY CYLINDER SHIP WHILE TANKING HITS LIKE IT'S NOTHING WHAT THE HELL!? Edit 2: Okay, tested out a bit. Turn out it can take hit well because it has two crew compartments and the SAME crew compartment will always be destroyed in a gun fight. I guess redundancy wins the day. But it's weird flight pattern thanks to its shape has also lengthened its life expectancy for quite a bit.
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Post by dragonkid11 on Oct 15, 2016 0:40:36 GMT
Kevlar is just a brand name para-aramid made by DuPont, others you might know are Nomex and Technora. Regarding the carbon fiber reinforced polymer, you should find most of the needed properties to create a CFRP definiton for CDE here. Basic Properties of Reference Crossply Carbon-Fiber Composite. [pdf] Oak Ridge National Laboratory (February 2000) Take a look at the \Children of a Dead Earth\Resources\Data\Materials folder. The materials are stored as normal .txt files. So you are saying I can make it as a material in game by making a .txt file? Is that right? You can. The problem is some of the files are completely mess thanks to their arrangement... And that no one has ever tried to mod it yet.
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Post by dragonkid11 on Oct 14, 2016 16:16:12 GMT
Okay, after a week of tweaking, I think I finally made the smallest drone currently possible by me. Not only is it really light, but it's also dirt-cheap at the price of only 4660 credit. That's...honestly ridiculously cheap. Here's the ship that carry it. As the name implied, it used broken coilgun that I never really can figure out whether they are too broken or not. And as with my design philosophy, it's light as hell and cheap as hell. Of course, it will be escorted by... Broken Sabre and Broken Sword. Honestly, I think I might phase out Broken Sword or try to lighten it further. They are also cheap as hell and can take out stock warship with ease to a certain degree. Anyway, that's all for now.
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