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Post by newageofpower on Jan 4, 2017 10:40:25 GMT
-Low Powered- "I have a proposal from a Children of a Dead Earth gamer back in 2016-" "WHAT? OUR FACTION CANNOT AFFORD TO USE HALF OF OUR URANIUM STOCKPILE TO DO THIS SHIP!" One of my 33.5 GW reactor uses 350kg of U233; and the design isn't even tuned to last only 6 months like an Apophys... |
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Post by amimai on Jan 4, 2017 10:49:27 GMT
my "anti laser" doom boat   |
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Post by newageofpower on Jan 4, 2017 10:54:29 GMT
vs capital range of 250km, why would you ever do that
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Post by amimai on Jan 4, 2017 10:59:32 GMT
vs capital range of 250km, why would you ever do that huh what? that thing reliably hits 50% of the time at 1Mm range... the stated values for accuracy are inaccurate also it fires at 5000rpm so really accuracy is no issue, viva saturation fire! |
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Post by caiaphas on Jan 4, 2017 13:15:44 GMT
-Low Powered- "I have a proposal from a Children of a Dead Earth gamer back in 2016-" "WHAT? OUR FACTION CANNOT AFFORD TO USE HALF OF OUR URANIUM STOCKPILE TO DO THIS SHIP!" Hey, you will notice that only the Dragonfly IV mounts the 10 GW version, all of the others are around a GW or less. The Damselfly drones and the Dragonfly I mount 50 MW versions! |
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Post by caiaphas on Jan 4, 2017 13:16:21 GMT
vs capital range of 250km, why would you ever do that huh what? that thing reliably hits 50% of the time at 1Mm range... the stated values for accuracy are inaccurate also it fires at 5000rpm so really accuracy is no issue, viva saturation fire! When in doubt, more gun? |
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Post by newageofpower on Jan 4, 2017 13:46:10 GMT
vs capital range of 250km, why would you ever do that huh what? that thing reliably hits 50% of the time at 1Mm range... the stated values for accuracy are inaccurate also it fires at 5000rpm so really accuracy is no issue, viva saturation fire! I feel "Ignore Range" is kind of an exploit. |
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Post by David367th on Jan 4, 2017 13:55:50 GMT
huh what? that thing reliably hits 50% of the time at 1Mm range... the stated values for accuracy are inaccurate also it fires at 5000rpm so really accuracy is no issue, viva saturation fire! I feel "Ignore Range" is kind of an exploit. It's better than ignore range of old days when the guns would hit everything but the thing they were shooting at. We need a happy medium. |
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Post by The Astronomer on Jan 4, 2017 15:32:09 GMT
-Low Powered- "I have a proposal from a Children of a Dead Earth gamer back in 2016-" "WHAT? OUR FACTION CANNOT AFFORD TO USE HALF OF OUR URANIUM STOCKPILE TO DO THIS SHIP!" Hey, you will notice that only the Dragonfly IV mounts the 10 GW version, all of the others are around a GW or less. The Damselfly drones and the Dragonfly I mount 50 MW versions! Yeah, but I still think that particular faction will have a pretty bad time fighting against Solar System's superpowers... |
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Post by lawson on Jan 4, 2017 17:00:47 GMT
also it fires at 5000rpm so really accuracy is no issue, viva saturation fire! Hm... I have a 170km/s monster I should try out again. It has a shot-gun spread, but without the hole in the center of the shot pattern it might be the perfect counter to dodging ships. |
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Post by amimai on Jan 4, 2017 17:00:48 GMT
our manufacturing division solved that problem years ago by building a uranium refinery large enough to be seen from space...
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Post by thorneel on Jan 4, 2017 22:39:57 GMT
So far this is my most successful cheap sandblaster design, based on my previous potassium coilgun: 60.7 km/s 1g sand for 28.8 kc and a power consumption (not including loader and momentum wheels) of that can't be right I mean 100 kw. To unbreak it, I advise decreasing reload time to 18.42 s or less, which is impossible as the minimum reload speed is slightly above 100 ms. At this speed, sand will cross 1 Mm in 16.47 s at most (null relative velocities). With a dispersion in the order of 100 m at that distance, it is effective against superlasers in my experience. Note that it is 50 m long and will die if you sneeze in its general direction - you get what you pay for, so I recommend using it on drones in massive numbers. Be careful though, magnetic metal glass, even by 1g increments, can become pricey quite fast. I recommend giving limited ammunition to your extremely fragile swarm drones.  I modified it to unbreak it at 10 MW for a reduced muzzle velocity of 54.4 km/s (theoretical 100% efficient reload speed 148 ms, but twice that because of cooldown time - I may come back to it for a 99% efficient version), and ended up with the absolute budget model : 707 c and 592 kg  |
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Post by tessfield on Jan 5, 2017 0:24:09 GMT
Heyall! thorneel I'm gonna try out that sandblaster cheese 
For the standards thread, given we talk about the mega death lasers meta so much, could we come up with/do you guys have 'standard' a 1GW, 10GW, 100GW, 1000GW (lol, if someone designs a 1TW laser death ship...) ship design for testing against that you'd like to share? Is that even plausible? Something standard like that I mean. Either way, what do you think a standard laser testing platform would/should be like? |
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Post by amimai on Jan 5, 2017 0:28:44 GMT
you can make it lighter, not cheaper but a 10MW reactor is...  |
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Post by jasonvance on Jan 5, 2017 0:38:46 GMT
Heyall! thorneel I'm gonna try out that sandblaster cheese
For the standards thread, given we talk about the mega death lasers meta so much, could we come up with/do you guys have 'standard' a 1GW, 10GW, 100GW, 1000GW (lol, if someone designs a 1TW laser death ship...) ship design for testing against that you'd like to share? Is that even plausible? Something standard like that I mean. Either way, what do you think a standard laser testing platform would/should be like? I was considering proposing a Laser drill challenge with this as the target it could probably be a pretty decent standard target to test laser performance... Laser performance measure in time to kill per mass of lasers or per cost of lasers (probably at a standardized 1kt/10Mc amounts). The target has 2 low critical intensity materials (aramid fiber, and slica aerogel), 2 high heat resistant materials (AC and TaHC), and one osmium layer for a high density material (just a generic metal really not very anti-laser). Mass and cost must include supported reactors and radiators (reactor can be estimated down to 2900 watts / credit and 54 watts / gram if they don't have the most meta reactors saved for their current loadout). I can't stress that last part enough, as these super powered lasers everyone is coming up with have been completely ignoring the enormous mass and cost in reactors and radiators for the most part and the effectiveness losses in firing upon low crit intensity materials, and some of these enormous spot size lasers with low intensities are ignoring the effect of low intensity on high heat resistant materials. I will probably spin up another thread for it where people can post their time to kill values for their laser designs.  |
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