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Post by boersgard on Aug 14, 2018 4:59:01 GMT
I'm having trouble visualizing this, can you post a screenshot? It looked like this, with a super thick steel radiation shield as the ring, and weapons lining the ring. This is in a good direction and is very similar to some of my first designs, suggestions:
Increase the slope of the front armor Only armor the front of the nose that covers your core modules in its shadow - the empty space between your radiator panels doesn't need armor
Build your own custom radiators, reduce their height, increase their length, and slope their backside - you want those radiators running parallel with the body, not perpendicular
The biggest reason for having a wider cone is specifically because you want room for guns. That's the trade-off - less protection, more guns. Otherwise your nose should be like a needle. A secondary good reason for having a wider cone is because the AI likes to target your turrets, and if they're all on the edge of the cone, any penetrating shots fly out the back of your ship hitting nothing - it's for this reason I try to keep my guns at the widest point of the spacecraft, with a rear-ward taper.
For reference, here's a design I'm currently working on:
And always remember rule of cool matters!
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Post by anotherfirefox on Aug 17, 2018 1:15:33 GMT
Dunno what I'm doing but snicked from everywhere:
innermost 7.5mm para-aramid fiber 50mm boron filament 1000mm G. Aerogel 3mm aramid fiber 3mm tin 1mm diamond outermost
It was aramid fiber innermost but I have a sever spall problem so changed it: Not a single damaged panel but lost armored methan tank inside. Otherwise it worked kinda well against stock ships. Not optimized obviously. Any idea?
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Post by gedzilla on Aug 17, 2018 6:31:31 GMT
Dunno what I'm doing but snicked from everywhere: innermost 7.5mm para-aramid fiber 50mm boron filament 1000mm G. Aerogel 3mm aramid fiber 3mm tin 1mm diamond outermost It was aramid fiber innermost but I have a sever spall problem so changed it: Not a single damaged panel but lost armored methan tank inside. Otherwise it worked kinda well against stock ships. Not optimized obviously. Any idea? why tin and aramid fiber in the wipple shield ?
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Post by anotherfirefox on Aug 17, 2018 7:09:41 GMT
Dunno what I'm doing but snicked from everywhere: innermost 7.5mm para-aramid fiber 50mm boron filament 1000mm G. Aerogel 3mm aramid fiber 3mm tin 1mm diamond outermost It was aramid fiber innermost but I have a sever spall problem so changed it: Not a single damaged panel but lost armored methan tank inside. Otherwise it worked kinda well against stock ships. Not optimized obviously. Any idea? why tin and aramid fiber in the wipple shield ? I saw somewhere somebody recommended tin there, and aramid for additional spall liner to save my armored methane tank
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Post by Prancer on Aug 29, 2018 17:54:34 GMT
why tin and aramid fiber in the wipple shield ? I saw somewhere somebody recommended tin there, and aramid for additional spall liner to save my armored methane tank. Spall liners should be in the very very last layers to catch fragments that made it through everything. Aramid on the outside of the whipple shield to protect against lasers would be good though. Tin I heard is a good material choice for whipple shields. Personally I stick to Aluminum for its lower cost and mass, with sufficient performance.
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