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Post by concretedonkey on Mar 12, 2017 14:13:04 GMT
Cheapness of the nukes is essential for missile spam  . |
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Post by The Astronomer on Mar 12, 2017 14:13:52 GMT
Oops, too bad that the standard nuke has far higher yield but just a bit more expensive... I agreed with Enderminion on our preference. Cost is nothing next to mass and efficiency, unless my budget ran low. |
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Post by Enderminion on Mar 12, 2017 14:42:46 GMT
I got a 10Mt bomb from steam forums that costs 3.6Mc, I go for light weight
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Post by jasonvance on Mar 13, 2017 6:12:09 GMT
Just make sure to do the yield / cost comparison to make sure the ratio is higher before saying something is a new cheaper replacement heh. I am a big fan of min-maxing for cost myself as well.
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Post by vegemeister on Mar 13, 2017 10:47:48 GMT
Just make sure to do the yield / cost comparison to make sure the ratio is higher before saying something is a new cheaper replacement heh. I am a big fan of min-maxing for cost myself as well. Since U-233 is so much cheaper than everything else, optimizing yield/cost is pretty much just picking U-233 and optimizing yield/mass. And... |
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Post by RiftandRend on Mar 13, 2017 22:19:16 GMT
Titanium Diboride is quite useful for getting around barrel heating issues. I suggest adding it to the list for rail/coilguns.
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Post by The Astronomer on Mar 14, 2017 0:51:16 GMT
Barrel heating? Why not radiators (imagine Deep Space Force) on gun or somewhere? |
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Post by David367th on Mar 14, 2017 20:15:16 GMT
Barrel heating? Why not radiators (imagine Deep Space Force) on gun or somewhere? I think we've requested this quite a bit now. |
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Post by zuthal on Apr 3, 2017 14:19:13 GMT
I have created a new very low power reactor, could that please be added to the OP? | Name | Author | Power | Exit Temp | Heat | Price | Mass | Shielded? | Image | Code | | 50 kW 15 cm Reactor | zuthal | 50.2 kW | 2600 K | 327 kW | 137 c | 7.55 kg | NO | link
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Post by newageofpower on Apr 4, 2017 2:33:31 GMT
Just saw this super late, lol. shurugal I think was a big NEFP guy. |
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Post by Inglonias on Apr 5, 2017 23:27:11 GMT
Neptunium-237 and Neptunium-237 Oxide has been added to the fissionables list!  |
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Post by zorbeltuss on Apr 6, 2017 8:04:02 GMT
Neptunium-237 and Neptunium-237 Oxide has been added to the fissionables list! A quick check from me seems to indicate that in can do slightly lighter nukes with the same yield but orders of magnitude higher cost, due to its better material properties (and of course its higher cost). In reactors it is raw worse than plutonium and in oxide worse than uranium oxide due to lower melting points. |
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Post by rosso on Apr 16, 2017 18:56:48 GMT
Besides what was stated in the OP, are there any standardization for Radiators? or does it depend more on what sort of heat your ship is running.
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Post by Esterov on Apr 16, 2017 20:23:38 GMT
I found this nuke on the steam forums, attributed to someone by the username "Staalby" it is a 10.1Mt nuclear weapon which masses less then the 9.64Mt bomb already up there, it costs 3-4x as much though [snip] I prepose we call this the Staalby bomb after the creator What about the Esterov bomb, for cost. Although I'm pretty sure everybody has a design like this already   Neptunium-237 and Neptunium-237 Oxide has been added to the fissionables list! ["Scientists! Investigate!"] Fiine~, it's a really expensive nuke material. But I did notice a fun thing about it. The fusion fuel doesn't exert as much pressure on Np-237 as it does on other materials. Combine that with an Osmium reflector and you get this.  |
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Post by bigbombr on Apr 18, 2017 13:25:35 GMT
Still, graphene and vitreous carbon make for the best high temperature thermocouple. Graphene and pyrolytic carbon seems to be even better. |
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