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Post by David367th on Jan 23, 2017 1:14:13 GMT
What's the range on their guns? And their armor might be good enough to take a sandblaster barrage, although I must confess that my own armor testing against stock gunships has been a complete failure up to this point. It's the 286 mm coil guns. They shoot 10 kg projectiles that go right through 1 m of van-chrome steel, and are 8129% efficient. Their 8mm 15g railguns have better range over the coils. And they can hit a 1000 m 2 target out to 45.7 Km, caiaphas |
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Post by caiaphas on Jan 23, 2017 1:27:17 GMT
What's the range on their guns? And their armor might be good enough to take a sandblaster barrage, although I must confess that my own armor testing against stock gunships has been a complete failure up to this point. It's the 286 mm coil guns. They shoot 10 kg projectiles that go right through 1 m of van-chrome steel, and are 8129% efficient. Actually, I double-checked the tracers and ranges, and it looks as though it's the railguns that firing first; I'm usually dead before the coilguns open fire. |
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Post by Enderminion on Jan 23, 2017 1:56:19 GMT
The coilguns on my ship are not sandblasters, the 500mm one shoots a 24kg shot at 7.33km/s, I am going to replace the stock railguns on it with some that have Zincronium copper barrels and 40MW power draw
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Post by caiaphas on Jan 23, 2017 2:01:48 GMT
The coilguns on my ship are not sandblasters, the 500mm one shoots a 24kg shot at 7.33km/s, I am going to replace the stock railguns on it with some that have Zincronium copper barrels and 40MW power draw Twenty-four kilos of hypervelocity murder seems a little excessive to me. What's the range on that, and have you field-tested them yet? |
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Post by Enderminion on Jan 23, 2017 2:25:17 GMT
The coilguns on my ship are not sandblasters, the 500mm one shoots a 24kg shot at 7.33km/s, I am going to replace the stock railguns on it with some that have Zincronium copper barrels and 40MW power draw Twenty-four kilos of hypervelocity murder seems a little excessive to me. What's the range on that, and have you field-tested them yet? the range is (1m^2 10m^2 1000^2) 3.53km 11.1km 52.6km, they tend to tear ships apart, if they can survive till range, but with kinetic weapons I just tick "ignore range" because a 24kg mass moving at 7.33km/s is still a 24kg mass moving at 7.33km/s no matter how far away the enemy is. |
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Post by David367th on Jan 23, 2017 3:43:03 GMT
Twenty-four kilos of hypervelocity murder seems a little excessive to me. What's the range on that, and have you field-tested them yet? the range is (1m^2 10m^2 1000^2) 3.53km 11.1km 52.6km, they tend to tear ships apart, if they can survive till range, but with kinetic weapons I just tick "ignore range" because a 24kg mass moving at 7.33km/s is still a 24kg mass moving at 7.33km/s no matter how far away the enemy is. While you're not wrong, the dispersion on guns past their recommended range is bad. They got a buff last patch but it's still pretty bad. |
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Post by Enderminion on Jan 23, 2017 3:55:07 GMT
the range is (1m^2 10m^2 1000^2) 3.53km 11.1km 52.6km, they tend to tear ships apart, if they can survive till range, but with kinetic weapons I just tick "ignore range" because a 24kg mass moving at 7.33km/s is still a 24kg mass moving at 7.33km/s no matter how far away the enemy is. While you're not wrong, the dispersion on guns past their recommended range is bad. They got a buff last patch but it's still pretty bad. my 20mm PD cannons look like slow phaser beams from star trek and could easily start to kill missiles at 5k compared to there 1m^2 range of 2.3k, also one hit is better then 0 hits |
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Post by deltav on Jan 23, 2017 4:20:13 GMT
So the current alpha doesn't have any laser drones. So I figured I'd remedy the gap. Here is the Predator drone, and it's carrier the Tholian Web. They are absolutely devastating when paired in combat with the Lancer Drone.
Current alpha means current stock game right? Isn't beam drone a laser drone? |
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Post by caiaphas on Jan 23, 2017 4:40:36 GMT
So the current alpha doesn't have any laser drones. So I figured I'd remedy the gap. Here is the Predator drone, and it's carrier the Tholian Web. They are absolutely devastating when paired in combat with the Lancer Drone.
Current alpha means current stock game right? Isn't beam drone a laser drone? ...uh, no. Current alpha was prerelease. CoaDE launched on 23 September last year. |
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Post by caiaphas on Jan 23, 2017 4:46:53 GMT
Twenty-four kilos of hypervelocity murder seems a little excessive to me. What's the range on that, and have you field-tested them yet? the range is (1m^2 10m^2 1000^2) 3.53km 11.1km 52.6km, they tend to tear ships apart, if they can survive till range, but with kinetic weapons I just tick "ignore range" because a 24kg mass moving at 7.33km/s is still a 24kg mass moving at 7.33km/s no matter how far away the enemy is. That's not precisely my point, which is on me for being all coy and whatever. What I mean is that once you get above around a kilo moving 10 km/s any extra mass tends to be a little overkill, and the added range you get with smaller, lighter projectiles tends to mitigate the difference in momentum anyways. If I were you I'd back down the mass to around ten kilos or so and reoptimize, and see if you get a corresponding increase in performance. |
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Post by golol on Jan 23, 2017 18:33:08 GMT
 I dont't yet know what's considered interesting or impressive but I really like this design. The drone weighs only 50 kilos and you can even get it down to 40 or 30 if necessary. The specifics of the launcher are also pretty easily customizable. It's not as strong as player made guns because it's simply a ~ 30-40 km weapon but if the engine could handle it you could deploy around 2000 drones in just over a minute with 300-400 dV each... |
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Post by teeth on Jan 23, 2017 19:19:55 GMT
I dont't yet know what's considered interesting or impressive but I really like this design. The drone weighs only 50 kilos and you can even get it down to 40 or 30 if necessary. The specifics of the launcher are also pretty easily customizable. It's not as strong as player made guns because it's simply a ~ 30-40 km weapon but if the engine could handle it you could deploy around 2000 drones in just over a minute with 300-400 dV each... Jesus, use boron for most radiators, or magnesium/lithium for lower temperature ones. Also, RTGs are massively inefficient for all but the lowest power needs (about 10 watts or less, can't even set the fuel mass low enough with po-210 to get that little). Switch to a small reactor instead. |
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Post by Enderminion on Jan 23, 2017 19:29:37 GMT
I dont't yet know what's considered interesting or impressive but I really like this design. The drone weighs only 50 kilos and you can even get it down to 40 or 30 if necessary. The specifics of the launcher are also pretty easily customizable. It's not as strong as player made guns because it's simply a ~ 30-40 km weapon but if the engine could handle it you could deploy around 2000 drones in just over a minute with 300-400 dV each... Jesus, use boron for most radiators, or magnesium/lithium for lower temperature ones. Also, RTGs are massively inefficient for all but the lowest power needs (about 10 watts or less, can't even set the fuel mass low enough with po-210 to get that little). Switch to a small reactor instead. It works, which is the important bit. also why would Jesus need space combat drones? |
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Post by golol on Jan 23, 2017 19:37:54 GMT
Angels can only operate in atmosphere!
Thanks gor the tips though. I dont know the go to materials yet because I felt like looking here is cheating... and in this case it did indeed work to my satisfaction, even though it apparently has bad radiators.
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Post by Enderminion on Jan 23, 2017 20:44:32 GMT
Angels can only operate in atmosphere! Thanks gor the tips though. I dont know the go to materials yet because I felt like looking here is cheating... and in this case it did indeed work to my satisfaction, even though it apparently has bad radiators. to quote my favorite FPS game, "Angels Fall First" |
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