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Post by The Astronomer on Jun 3, 2017 17:27:01 GMT
antimatter catalyzed fusion? Yes. |
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Post by Kerr on Jun 3, 2017 17:50:25 GMT
antimatter catalyzed fusion? Yup, performance wise it is even superior to Plasma core amat drives, comparison: 1µg Amat with 100g LiDT creates a 1kT explison at 20% burn-efficiency, with an exhaust velocity of 9480km/s, If 1µg Amat reacted with 100g non-fusion propellant you get a exhaust velocity of 60km/s, at 100% efficiency. |
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Post by teeth on Jun 3, 2017 20:00:59 GMT
Huge dump of impractically small railguns that would need nanoscale 3d printing or high precision laser machining to make the rails and ammunition. imgur.com/a/VaFRb |
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Post by concretedonkey on Jun 3, 2017 20:23:35 GMT
  The Soviet Trumpeter, sort of a cheap missile frigate with strong emphasis on delta V - both for the ship itself and the missiles. It has around 13 km/s with the droptanks without its a bit above 10. Main weaponry are 3 variations of my current "reasonable" missile - that is to say reasonably effective, reasonably priced and with a reasonable mass and survivability :   Variation A is without droptanks, delta V 10km/s , carries 2000 of those. B is A + 4x15kg droptanks , 16km/s delta V, 600 carried. C is the largest 3x40kg droptanks , 19km/s delta V, 400 carried. Missile defense is handled by upgraded version of my prepatch anti missile laser drone:  As you can see it got fatter since missiles got significantly faster and it needed a larger laser... I suspect it will soon get a powerplant upgrade too, but for the moment it works. Also it has 2x50km/s railguns 6x10km/s railguns both purely secondary, its not supposed to rush anything just pound from a distance with missiles. |
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Post by bigbombr on Jun 4, 2017 6:16:01 GMT
The Soviet Trumpeter, sort of a cheap missile frigate with strong emphasis on delta V - both for the ship itself and the missiles. It has around 13 km/s with the droptanks without its a bit above 10. Main weaponry are 3 variations of my current "reasonable" missile - that is to say reasonably effective, reasonably priced and with a reasonable mass and survivability : Variation A is without droptanks, delta V 10km/s , carries 2000 of those. B is A + 4x15kg droptanks , 16km/s delta V, 600 carried. C is the largest 3x40kg droptanks , 19km/s delta V, 400 carried. Missile defense is handled by upgraded version of my prepatch anti missile laser drone: As you can see it got fatter since missiles got significantly faster and it needed a larger laser... I suspect it will soon get a powerplant upgrade too, but for the moment it works. Also it has 2x50km/s railguns 6x10km/s railguns both purely secondary, its not supposed to rush anything just pound from a distance with missiles. I often use a MPDT for increasing my delta-v, and make sure I can dodge for at least a few minutes (3 to 7) with my NTR's (unless I go full laserstar). This way, you can keep your ships somewhat light and cheap while giving them good mobility. |
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Post by concretedonkey on Jun 4, 2017 6:22:06 GMT
This one has again MPD but again added as an afterthough, acceleration is low , I'm able to use it in some situation but ofcourse its not as usefull as a 1TW version. Also I was interested not only in high delta V but in high acceleration too- without the tanks acceleration is 1.2G and this is a compromise, I prefered it above 1.5 as it was initially... but the price is the king. There will be a capital drone version in the future.
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Post by bigbombr on Jun 4, 2017 6:29:24 GMT
This one has again MPD but again added as an afterthough, acceleration is low , I'm able to use it in some situation but ofcourse its not as usefull as a 1TW version. Also I was interested not only in high delta V but in high acceleration too- without the tanks acceleration is 1.2G and this is a compromise, I prefered it above 1.5 as it was initially... but the price is the king. There will be a capital drone version in the future. 1 GW MPDT's are plenty powerful. On a ship this size it'll probably not just reduce mass, but also cost. The MPDT is for cruising, the NTR for dodging. This way, you can use all that juice for powering weapons. |
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Post by concretedonkey on Jun 4, 2017 6:40:43 GMT
I'm trying to keep my power levels by design low, I have 1GW 3GW powplants on other ships, 10 is probably the max I'll use, but not on this ship. This is supposed to be mass produced cheap long range raider and to provide long range striking power for smaller fleets. There will be a larger missile cruiser with more exotic missiles - also more expensive, in the future. However as a rule you can expect that even those more expensive ships would probably not have more than 3GWs. I'm aware its an unpopular position, call it illogical, call it stubborn, call it stupid  . Edit: Also keep in mind of what I said about the drone version - as all of my cheap and small combat ships there is always the though about turning them to drones if the concept works well - in this case long range cruising will be handled by the mothership. Probably big one with lots of power (by my standarts, again  ). |
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Post by bigbombr on Jun 4, 2017 7:39:52 GMT
I'm trying to keep my power levels by design low, I have 1GW 3GW powplants on other ships, 10 is probably the max I'll use, but not on this ship. This is supposed to be mass produced cheap long range raider and to provide long range striking power for smaller fleets. There will be a larger missile cruiser with more exotic missiles - also more expensive, in the future. However as a rule you can expect that even those more expensive ships would probably not have more than 3GWs. I'm aware its an unpopular position, call it illogical, call it stubborn, call it stupid . Edit: Also keep in mind of what I said about the drone version - as all of my cheap and small combat ships there is always the though about turning them to drones if the concept works well - in this case long range cruising will be handled by the mothership. Probably big one with lots of power (by my standarts, again ). 32.8 Mc is hardly cheap. Anything above 10 Mc is on the expensive side where I'm concerned. |
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Post by concretedonkey on Jun 4, 2017 7:52:06 GMT
I'm trying to keep my power levels by design low, I have 1GW 3GW powplants on other ships, 10 is probably the max I'll use, but not on this ship. This is supposed to be mass produced cheap long range raider and to provide long range striking power for smaller fleets. There will be a larger missile cruiser with more exotic missiles - also more expensive, in the future. However as a rule you can expect that even those more expensive ships would probably not have more than 3GWs. I'm aware its an unpopular position, call it illogical, call it stubborn, call it stupid . Edit: Also keep in mind of what I said about the drone version - as all of my cheap and small combat ships there is always the though about turning them to drones if the concept works well - in this case long range cruising will be handled by the mothership. Probably big one with lots of power (by my standarts, again ). 32.8 Mc is hardly cheap. Anything above 10 Mc is on the expensive side where I'm concerned. yes its one of the things I would like to improve on this design now , above 1/4th of the price are the railguns and there the aramid fiber armor is driving the price significantly up , there is still work to be done on that regard before I go with the drone. I'm considering droping them completely - maybe even on the whole fleet level - its also one of the things that still bug me from realism perspective - besides the whole unlimited power escalation tendency, - the rate of fire of of railguns. I'm finding it even more completely rediculous than the terawatt laserstars . |
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Post by RiftandRend on Jun 4, 2017 8:06:14 GMT
New ship, heavily modded and uses limit editing but nothing too absurd. It pretty handily butchers any stock design, and if you glitch to within 10 km everything dies before it has a chance to fire.  These are its weapons. I felt that graphene was reasonable here considering how small the projectiles are.  |
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Post by concretedonkey on Jun 4, 2017 8:12:37 GMT
New ship, heavily modded and uses limit editing but nothing too absurd. ... It pretty handily butchers any stock design, and if you glitch to within 10 km everything dies before it has a chance to fire.
... These are its weapons. I felt that graphene was reasonable here considering how small the projectiles are. shit, those guns almost make me consider trying mods  ... but I will resist the temptation... sinner! btw where does the potassium go in all of this ? The momentum wheels ? |
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Post by RiftandRend on Jun 4, 2017 8:43:29 GMT
New ship, heavily modded and uses limit editing but nothing too absurd. ... It pretty handily butchers any stock design, and if you glitch to within 10 km everything dies before it has a chance to fire.
... These are its weapons. I felt that graphene was reasonable here considering how small the projectiles are. shit, those guns almost make me consider trying mods ... but I will resist the temptation... sinner! btw where does the potassium go in all of this ? The momentum wheels ? They aren't as good as they seem on paper. There seems to be some hardcoded ROF cap and at long ranges wobble makes them less effective. And yes, the potassium is in the wheels. |
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Post by concretedonkey on Jun 4, 2017 8:46:30 GMT
shit, those guns almost make me consider trying mods ... but I will resist the temptation... sinner! btw where does the potassium go in all of this ? The momentum wheels ? They aren't as good as they seem on paper. There seems to be some hardcoded ROF cap and at long ranges wobble makes them less effective. And yes, the potassium is in the wheels. How does the damage model handle projectiles as small as this? I would love to see some shots of the result. |
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Post by Kerr on Jun 4, 2017 10:31:13 GMT
New ship, heavily modded and uses limit editing but nothing too absurd. It pretty handily butchers any stock design, and if you glitch to within 10 km everything dies before it has a chance to fire. These are its weapons. I felt that graphene was reasonable here considering how small the projectiles are. Could you please post the properties of "Railgun Armature Graphene" ? |
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... but I will resist the temptation... sinner!