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Re: Spaceship Design Rules v0.23

Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 5:12 pm
by calvin1211
My small contribution to the tests.
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210 size, 5 heavy vulcans, three lasers, and two heavy missile launchers.
Keeps dying to smaller ships though. :oops:

Re: Spaceship Design Rules v0.23

Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 8:05 pm
by STARSTRUCK
Gamesmanship Ray
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Built using the new weapon masses. Best used en masse. Its rear is made of talc.

GunPatriot
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Slow and vulnerable, has to stay the hell away from the front line, but goddamnit it has six bigass guns and I feel like the motherfucking He-Man with this shit on my side.

Re: Spaceship Design Rules v0.23

Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 10:03 pm
by Arcalane
HorseMonster wrote:
Rugdumph wrote:One question though, with the engine thruster module, should i set it to lose all accel., speed, and turning, or just most of it so it doesn't pinball but pretty much cripples it to immobile. I've assumed the later at the moment, easy change if i'm wrong. By the way i think the rules so far are pretty much spot on, pitted three of these against vidboi's lot, of course i didn't stand a chance, but the battle with that much lead flying was pretty entertaining, most enjoyment when seeing one of my ships saved by it's front armour so it does work! Oh and the core is smack bang in the middle too :wink:
I think making the ship completely immobile would probably be overdoing it, but the ammount of performance lost should be proportional to the output of the particular engine that was destroyed.
Rule of thumb I used for metaships when doing thrusters;

Main engines primarily reduce speed and accel.

Secondary engines and angled thrusters (the sort you might see on some DVL designs) primarily reduce turning, but may also have a small impact on speed.

For example, the Daredevil II (one of the few designs I made with engines besides the main bank) loses a lot of speed if you take out the rear engine block, but the side pod engines only reduce it's speed by a fairly small amount - though they take a decent chunk out of the turning.

Remember to set it so that accel is never reduced below 0.01 and you can avoid pingponging - accel works as decel as well. Having engines reduce speed/accel/turning noticeably is required, but on the same note don't feel you have to completely immobilize them as HM says. Ships probably have myriad unrepresented maneuvering thrusters that they can use for propulsion and general maneuvering in a pinch if you really want an excuse.

Re: Spaceship Design Rules v0.23

Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 2:26 am
by vidboi
because i can...
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hey STARSTRUCK, what was it you said the gunpatriot made you feel :D
IFNS Credence (meta 2 test).shp
(19.31 KiB) Downloaded 100 times
pretty much the most possible weaponry you can fit onto a meta ship using current rules

Re: Spaceship Design Rules v0.23

Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 3:55 am
by Rugdumph
I've just picked up on something. Arc ranges seem to be pretty large, e.g. putting in a vulcan at 90 gives it a whole half circle. Just wonder if it's supposed to be like this, or if 90 is supposed to be degrees and in SM inputted as 45. Just incase i'm making ships with massive firing arc's.

Also another test, just a little one this time, ultra-light core and engine, one heavy autocannon and two vuclans. More an armoured shuttle or something than a warship.

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Re: Spaceship Design Rules v0.23

Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 4:14 am
by AlphaDetisMegas
Rugdumph wrote:I've just picked up on something. Arc ranges seem to be pretty large, e.g. putting in a vulcan at 90 gives it a whole half circle. Just wonder if it's supposed to be like this, or if 90 is supposed to be degrees and in SM inputted as 45. Just incase i'm making ships with massive firing arc's.
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90 means 90 degrees to the left and to the right, as a weapon turns left and right, also read the first post there's rules and guidelines there for a reason.
Like the weapon and module stats.

Re: Spaceship Design Rules v0.23

Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 4:23 am
by HorseMonster
Rugdumph wrote:I've just picked up on something. Arc ranges seem to be pretty large, e.g. putting in a vulcan at 90 gives it a whole half circle. Just wonder if it's supposed to be like this, or if 90 is supposed to be degrees and in SM inputted as 45. Just incase i'm making ships with massive firing arc's.
It's supposed to be like that. 90 is the actual Arc Range value that you enter into shipmaker. Vulcans have massive arc ranges because as well as being effective main armament for small ships they are also for use on larger ships as CIWS.

Re: Spaceship Design Rules v0.23

Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 4:31 am
by Rugdumph
90 means 90 degrees to the left and to the right, as a weapon turns left and right, also read the first post there's rules and guidelines there for a reason.
Like the weapon and module stats.
Yes i have read the first post, several times, carefully, that's why i asked...and funnily enough i do understand how arc ranges work, and the principle of left and right.

@HM: Ok thanks, i guess the vulcan's seemed ok, it just struck me when a big artillery gun still had 60 listed as it's arc, thought it was rather large for a big gun like that.

Edit: A damn fast ship, since after fighting starstruck's gamesmanship ray and it doing one circle round my ship so fast it destroyed it having barely been targeted. And also i forgot to put a beamer onto the previous ship that should've been on.

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Ed: @Starstruck: I think you should take a look at your vulcans on the Gamesmanship Ray, they seem to have an awful fast fire rate for heavy vulcans, just compared it to a little mock up and unleashed them at a brick, definitely faster.

Re: Spaceship Design Rules v0.23

Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 9:33 pm
by STARSTRUCK
Rugdumph wrote:Ed: @Starstruck: I think you should take a look at your vulcans on the Gamesmanship Ray, they seem to have an awful fast fire rate for heavy vulcans, just compared it to a little mock up and unleashed them at a brick, definitely faster.
Shit, man. I accidentally set the damn things to fire about twice as fast. Sorry 'bout that. Here's a new upload.

And yet another ship for the test roster:

Valiant-class Assault Carrier
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A meta1-style bundle of rape. Works well against smaller, maneuverable ships that would normally be a pain in the neck to hit.

Re: Spaceship Design Rules v0.23

Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 10:50 pm
by vidboi
seeing as arcalane said that there'll be tech advancements allowing us to use multiple cores, can we create test ships with multiple cores to see how that would affect gameplay?

Re: Spaceship Design Rules v0.23

Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 11:32 pm
by CheesyErwin
My hands on some meta2 ships...

I present you the Centurion-class Strike Destroyer
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Used Mass:  	17130/17960  	Available Mass:  	830
Energy Consumption: 	1370/1700 	Available Energy: 	330
Speed: 	1.05078809107
Acceleration: 	0.0309398715703
Turning: 	0.45534150613

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Armaments:
2x HE Lasers
2x Missile Launchers
4x Autocannons

Re: Spaceship Design Rules v0.23

Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 11:41 pm
by Rugdumph
Can't wait to pit that against my new little flankers :) .

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One laser, two autocannons, light armour (very light in the centre and rear), and pretty damn fast.

Ed: Reposting the download cause the thrusters doubled up for some reason.

Re: Spaceship Design Rules v0.23

Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 9:57 am
by Corporal Jomn
Decided to do something.
Here it is:
Zephyr-class gunship
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Beats STARSTRUCK's GunPatriot hard. Yay for drone bays. :) Yeah, slow as hell though.

Re: Spaceship Design Rules v0.23

Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 3:45 pm
by HorseMonster
Introducing...

Electronic Countermeasures!

Modules that allow ships to dazzle the sensors of enemy ships in order to avoid detection.

Re: Spaceship Design Rules v0.23

Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 5:23 pm
by calvin1211
HorseMonster wrote:Electronic Countermeasures
Do those have any effect in combat, or are they just for the strategic portion of the game?
Anyway new test ships.
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Small size 70 frigate with 2 drone launchers and 4 autocannons.
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A tiny gunship. 1 beam and 1 vulcan. Fast and manuverable, but flimsy.
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Testing an engineless station. 4 vulcans and one of the new ECM modules.