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Post by dragonkid11 on Jul 25, 2017 4:46:12 GMT
Well, you just gave me a solution for my compact drone to attach external fuel tank to it without compromising it's size.
Well sure, it will get shot at earlier because of its bigger size, but eh, this looks cool.
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Post by midnightdreary on Jul 25, 2017 10:32:04 GMT
So after playing around with some apophys Electronics modules, I've made pretty good progress on my idea of a dedicated combat laserstar. -snip- I absolutely love the ship as a concept. Though my feelings differ on if I consider it more of an exploit. If there was a supporting structure that could be struck by weapons or a mass cost associated with building struts to push that material out I would have no issues at all. |
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Post by jtyotjotjipaefvj on Jul 26, 2017 17:31:16 GMT
I did some improvements to my missiles. I changed the engine from a Fl-H combustion rocket to a methane NTR, allowing for a better dv as well as a denser propellant, which means further dv improvements due to a smaller surface area that needs to be covered by armor. I also changed the expensive nuke blast launcher into a 30mm rapid-fire turreted cannon that fires 20-gram HE rounds. This lets the missiles (or drones?) pepper the target with some moderate damage-dealing rounds (that are traveling at ~13 km/s mind you) before the cluster frags and the KE impactor hit. These changes cut the price of one missile down to 6kc from 48kc, while arguably increasing their effectiveness, at least against larger targets. Below is a video showing their effectiveness against a Gunship, as well as a picture of the missile.  |
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Post by ash19256 on Jul 26, 2017 19:46:10 GMT
That is an impressive level of destruction delivered. I don't suppose you could post code for that ordinance?
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Post by jtyotjotjipaefvj on Jul 26, 2017 20:58:59 GMT
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Post by jtyotjotjipaefvj on Jul 26, 2017 23:38:58 GMT
I came to the realization that my old missile was not fast enough. Therefore I've improved the design further by adding drop tanks and more fuel in general, as well as a more powerful engine, and more rows in the cluster flak launcher, bringing the fragment mass up to 36 kg, and dv to 22km/s. With the improved impact velocity, the cluster frags vaporize a good 50-meter long portion of the target Gunship entirely. This has brought the cost up to 30kc per missile, but on the other hand 10 are enough to shred pretty much any ship in one hit.  |
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Post by Enderminion on Jul 26, 2017 23:42:39 GMT
WOW that bomb was so powerful, it crashed the youtube window
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Post by madmike on Jul 27, 2017 1:12:12 GMT
Meanwhile, I'm over here designing the absolute dumbest concept I can think of. I present to you, the Trireme:  Secondary armament consists of a battery of conventional cannons, but the primary armament is simply a massive vanadium chromium steel nosecone for ramming anyone dumb enough not to get out of your way.  Basically, it's a manned KKV, because, well, why the hell not? It's horribly finicky to use because the default crewed homing command uses such naive guidance, but when it does actually hit, it's hilarious. |
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Post by Durandal on Jul 27, 2017 2:08:35 GMT
(Re)Presenting the Battlecruiser Flight-Ib, now with Laser Boom Structural Supports™!      A quick and dirty fix hooked up to a 171mW fission reactor as a proof of concept. Since almost all structural, linkage, and life support systems are abstracted as aluminium I think it would be a fare assumption that the power and optical links between the laser lenses and engines can be abstracted by a large thermally-redundant aluminium radiator. A diamond coating serves to provide laser and nukeflash damage. They're a negligible mass and credit cost. *Note, I have not tried to do any calculations to see just what sort of forces would might act on them to see if they'd be structurally sound or not. Just taking a SWAG at it. As proud of I am of how pretty this ship is, I'm on the fence on accepting it as a plausible design. On the one hand we assume with any ship that linkages are abstracted out. On the other hand these supports are not explicitly modeled into the game using whatever calculations are factored into ship design. On the gripping hand I think they look damn cool. |
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Post by samchiu2000 on Jul 27, 2017 4:46:37 GMT
Meanwhile, I'm over here designing the absolute dumbest concept I can think of. I present to you, the Trireme: [Photo] Secondary armament consists of a battery of conventional cannons, but the primary armament is simply a massive vanadium chromium steel nosecone for ramming anyone dumb enough not to get out of your way. [Photo] Basically, it's a manned KKV, because, well, why the hell not? It's horribly finicky to use because the default crewed homing command uses such naive guidance, but when it does actually hit, it's hilarious. Kamikaze IN SPAAACE!!! Sorry Durandal  Something that look like the latest toy from Nippon prime  and IIRC someone actually built something like this before and call it like "alternative warfare"~ EDIT: Got it! |
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Post by treptoplax on Jul 27, 2017 15:22:13 GMT
(Re)Presenting the Battlecruiser Flight-Ib, now with Laser Boom Structural Supports™! A quick and dirty fix hooked up to a 171mW fission reactor as a proof of concept. Since almost all structural, linkage, and life support systems are abstracted as aluminium I think it would be a fare assumption that the power and optical links between the laser lenses and engines can be abstracted by a large thermally-redundant aluminium radiator. A diamond coating serves to provide laser and nukeflash damage. They're a negligible mass and credit cost. *Note, I have not tried to do any calculations to see just what sort of forces would might act on them to see if they'd be structurally sound or not. Just taking a SWAG at it. As proud of I am of how pretty this ship is, I'm on the fence on accepting it as a plausible design. On the one hand we assume with any ship that linkages are abstracted out. On the other hand these supports are not explicitly modeled into the game using whatever calculations are factored into ship design. On the gripping hand I think they look damn cool. Assuming the ring itself has reasonable structural integrity, you only need tensile strength for mounting it, and tensile strength is cheap. I think steel or aramid (or, heck, silk) cables would be plenty strong and difficult to hit without adding too much weight, so I don't think this is unreasonable. |
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Post by someusername6 on Jul 28, 2017 3:01:28 GMT
(Re)Presenting the Battlecruiser Flight-Ib, now with Laser Boom Structural Supports™! A quick and dirty fix hooked up to a 171mW fission reactor as a proof of concept. Since almost all structural, linkage, and life support systems are abstracted as aluminium I think it would be a fare assumption that the power and optical links between the laser lenses and engines can be abstracted by a large thermally-redundant aluminium radiator. A diamond coating serves to provide laser and nukeflash damage. They're a negligible mass and credit cost. *Note, I have not tried to do any calculations to see just what sort of forces would might act on them to see if they'd be structurally sound or not. Just taking a SWAG at it. As proud of I am of how pretty this ship is, I'm on the fence on accepting it as a plausible design. On the one hand we assume with any ship that linkages are abstracted out. On the other hand these supports are not explicitly modeled into the game using whatever calculations are factored into ship design. On the gripping hand I think they look damn cool. Assuming the ring itself has reasonable structural integrity, you only need tensile strength for mounting it, and tensile strength is cheap. I think steel or aramid (or, heck, silk) cables would be plenty strong and difficult to hit without adding too much weight, so I don't think this is unreasonable. ... now I want to make a ship that has a nuclear engine pulling the rest of the ship like a wagon. |
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Post by The Astronomer on Jul 28, 2017 3:34:41 GMT
Assuming the ring itself has reasonable structural integrity, you only need tensile strength for mounting it, and tensile strength is cheap. I think steel or aramid (or, heck, silk) cables would be plenty strong and difficult to hit without adding too much weight, so I don't think this is unreasonable. ... now I want to make a ship that has a nuclear engine pulling the rest of the ship like a wagon. Feel free to check out my fusion space train! |
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Post by Argopeilacos on Jul 28, 2017 14:09:39 GMT
Assuming the ring itself has reasonable structural integrity, you only need tensile strength for mounting it, and tensile strength is cheap. I think steel or aramid (or, heck, silk) cables would be plenty strong and difficult to hit without adding too much weight, so I don't think this is unreasonable. ... now I want to make a ship that has a nuclear engine pulling the rest of the ship like a wagon. Medusa Orion anyone? |
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Post by treptoplax on Jul 28, 2017 18:44:50 GMT
Meanwhile, I'm over here designing the absolute dumbest concept I can think of. I present to you, the Trireme: [snipped pic] Secondary armament consists of a battery of conventional cannons, but the primary armament is simply a massive vanadium chromium steel nosecone for ramming anyone dumb enough not to get out of your way. [snipped pic] Basically, it's a manned KKV, because, well, why the hell not? It's horribly finicky to use because the default crewed homing command uses such naive guidance, but when it does actually hit, it's hilarious. Needs giant osmium radiators. Wait, does that work? Why don't I already have that on my KKVs? |
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and IIRC someone actually built something like this before and call it like "alternative warfare"~
