So much for our stealth.
What does LW stand for?
What do you mean by the 1 to 1? 1 to 1 of what?
Do missiles always need a second stage?
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I thoguht the spy ships were meant to be FAC and hence under 2000 tonnes.
How could you see their waypoint?
As in we do 3 damage, they do 1?
What do you mean by farm status? That they're basically slaughter animals?
Does all guns taper to 1, no matter their point blank damage? So one that did 1 million damage point blank would still be 1 at max range?
Why send the passives again? Didn't it fully scan first time?
Also, can passives spot stuff actives can't?
What type of overhaul is needed of a fleet when it returns? Just shore leave?
Do the Galapagoans necessarily move all over their system, thouhg, unless there's something to chase.
Why are they called parasites?
Ouch. They'll get into problems with needing shore leave, etc. right?
Why do you need to fire them from teh JP? Why not from any other point, like hte pint you wre on?
Do you specify the ship model yourself? And if so, was it then also you who gave the goons the star destroyer as their ship model?Please don't shoot.
... it's those treacherous Terrans, led by that notorious scallywag, Blue Emu!
Do we know any black holes?
Will you be trying to bring that same shipyard in again later?
Won't they know where the JP is if you launch from it, as they'll know where teh missile came from?
What a shame. That means we lost the opportunity for treasure on the innermost planet... Bloody Jerx.
They actually can repair their engines?
Also, why is it showing its cloaked tonnage, but the jerkmobile wreck shows the real one?
What makes a planet suspicious?
Also, should our exploration ships perhaps have better engines, etc? When were they last upgraded?
Does it have fulll sensitivity at 101 million km?
Wouldnt' we need the passives too, though?
Some questions should not be asked here, but to google: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fisher,_1st_Baron_Fisher
Retooling a yard takes a long time - possibly years, depending on the size of the ship. So you can't just switch it to build something else at a whim.
That question aged well .. the fleet actually ended up doing most of the heavy lifting ;-)
No, but the salvagers are just sitting around doing nothing anyway otherwise. And it's wise to not leave Swarm bait around.
Another question best asked to google: https://www.techopedia.com/definiti...efers to a gaming,numbers of items or enemies.
No, civilian ships ignore shore leave, maintenance and overhauls. Fortunately.
Goes without saying you always want passives if you also have actives. Flipping on the active sensors means giving away your location ..
That latter bit is a real thing, happening in real wars:
"To track and engage the targets, better radars are needed to determine the precise location and speed of the target. These radars can remain dormant until the target is within the engagement range of the missile. Then the tracking radars can be turned on and pass the data to the missile. Once the missile is launched and is tracking the target on its own, the tracking radar can be turned off and moved. This limits the time in which the tracking radar can be detected and engaged, increasing its chances of survival."
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How many turrets would he need to have to get in 150 shots? Wouldn't that be an insane amount of turrets, and hence those 10k tonnes would be solely turrents? And even then, isn't that very low tonnage for that many shots?
Can we salvage the remains once we take the planet to try and reverse engineer his tech?
Also, Rakhas were super advanced before they lost spacecraft, weren't they?
What was it that made them lose space travel?
Also, I'm less than a week behind now!
What do you mean by this?
I hope my feedback trying to catch up on a month of thread hasn't been too much.
Are divisions the largest unit size you can have in the game, or can you also have say corps or armies or even army groups?
How can an invasion be opposed if the GTO is gone, thoguh?
Welcome to the wonderful world of fleet salvos and synchronized fire. Those 150 missiles coming in? Easily done with a distributed salvo from, say, 78 fighters ..
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Long-range missile design:
Just as with Tank design, there are conflicting priorities.
You want a nice big bang. But you also want the missile to be small enough that it cannot be targeted by the defender until it gets close to the enemy. You want a nice high to-hit chance, but that requires homing heads (which are heavy) and high speed, which in turn requires large, fuel-hungry engines. But those large, fuel-hungry engines will run your missile out of fuel quite quickly, so that your firing range must be short or else the missile will run out of fuel.
I've solved this problem with a two-stage design.
After all... it's only the missile's warhead that needs high speed, to improve its chance of penetrating the enemy's point defense zone, and to boost the warhead's to-hit chance when targeting a fast enemy ship.
So I took a warhead with a big strength-9 bang and mounted it in a tiny rocket that only needed a small engine (because it was just a tiny rocket!) and only had enough fuel to travel about 1.25 million km. That's like... less than 2% of my usual missile range. Then I mounted two of those puppies on a lower-stage booster that uses a safe and sensible speed - only traveling at about 17,000 kps, one-third as fast as that warhead upper stage - so it can carry the upper stage out to 80 million km or so, and then deploy the two warheads, where they STREAK in toward the enemy ship or planet at 50,000 kps. Passing through his PD zone as rapidly as possible, and offering a difficult target.
Just as with Tank design, there are conflicting priorities.
You want a nice big bang. But you also want the missile to be small enough that it cannot be targeted by the defender until it gets close to the enemy. You want a nice high to-hit chance, but that requires homing heads (which are heavy) and high speed, which in turn requires large, fuel-hungry engines. But those large, fuel-hungry engines will run your missile out of fuel quite quickly, so that your firing range must be short or else the missile will run out of fuel.
I've solved this problem with a two-stage design.
After all... it's only the missile's warhead that needs high speed, to improve its chance of penetrating the enemy's point defense zone, and to boost the warhead's to-hit chance when targeting a fast enemy ship.
So I took a warhead with a big strength-9 bang and mounted it in a tiny rocket that only needed a small engine (because it was just a tiny rocket!) and only had enough fuel to travel about 1.25 million km. That's like... less than 2% of my usual missile range. Then I mounted two of those puppies on a lower-stage booster that uses a safe and sensible speed - only traveling at about 17,000 kps, one-third as fast as that warhead upper stage - so it can carry the upper stage out to 80 million km or so, and then deploy the two warheads, where they STREAK in toward the enemy ship or planet at 50,000 kps. Passing through his PD zone as rapidly as possible, and offering a difficult target.
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A lifetime supply of Vendarite. We'll see what else the system holds. Eight planets, 53 moons, 179 asteroids and ten comets.
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Three more months until the Gate opens.
We now have three scout ships either searching the Klendathu system or en route to it.
The innermost planet (where the immobilized Achernar was) has been checked for signs of life, and none were found.
We now have three scout ships either searching the Klendathu system or en route to it.
The innermost planet (where the immobilized Achernar was) has been checked for signs of life, and none were found.
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2010 version of the Garrison Battalion. Our current Garrisons are a 1957 (!) design.
Let's see if we can upgrade...
Let's see if we can upgrade...
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This is major.
That tech extends our beam fire control range from its current 320,000 km out to 384,000 km. And since damage is a function of how close you are to maximum range, any increase in maximum range boosts the damage at all intermediate ranges.
That tech extends our beam fire control range from its current 320,000 km out to 384,000 km. And since damage is a function of how close you are to maximum range, any increase in maximum range boosts the damage at all intermediate ranges.
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That was quick - I seem to recall some similar range extension (as a major news) just last week. - Also it seems like Wagonlitz joined the forums yesterday.
How can you tell?
That tech took four years, so you might be thinking of some other range-extending tech series, rather than beam weapon fire controls.
We seem to be catching up to the neighbors, anyway.
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The Lasers themselves! You're thinking of the recent tech that extended our Laser ranges.
But we also need this Beam Fire Control tech to aim them, that far away.
Our Sabres in particular will appreciate the extra range. Not so much that they will sit back further, it's just that extra max range increases damage at ALL ranges.
Except point blank.
But we also need this Beam Fire Control tech to aim them, that far away.
Our Sabres in particular will appreciate the extra range. Not so much that they will sit back further, it's just that extra max range increases damage at ALL ranges.
Except point blank.
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Now running an experiment to see if we can upgrade ground units instead of replacing them.
1) Design a new Garrison unit. - Done.
2) Mark an existing 1957 Garrison unit to upgrade to that new 2010 Garrison template - Done
3) Let a five-day build cycle go by, and see if the marked Garrison unit is changing - I predict: No.
4) Meanwhile, build a brand new 2010 Garrison unit. If the old Garrison is not upgrading yet, then mark the new Garrison as "Replacements".
5) I predict that the old Garrison will now upgrade to the 2010 model, since it can draw on your "Replacements" for the new equipment.
1) Design a new Garrison unit. - Done.
2) Mark an existing 1957 Garrison unit to upgrade to that new 2010 Garrison template - Done
3) Let a five-day build cycle go by, and see if the marked Garrison unit is changing - I predict: No.
4) Meanwhile, build a brand new 2010 Garrison unit. If the old Garrison is not upgrading yet, then mark the new Garrison as "Replacements".
5) I predict that the old Garrison will now upgrade to the 2010 model, since it can draw on your "Replacements" for the new equipment.
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Huh.
My 1957 pattern Garrisons naturally use the 1957 pattern Garrison replacement template. Like this:
I set one of them to use the 2010 Replacement template instead:
Nothing happened, even after a five-day build cycle. So I built a new 2010 Garrison, and set it to be used as reinforcements.
I figured that the old unit whose template I changed could now draw all the modern equipment he needed from the guy marked as "for reinforcements".
Nothing happened, even after a five-day build cycle.
My 1957 pattern Garrisons naturally use the 1957 pattern Garrison replacement template. Like this:
I set one of them to use the 2010 Replacement template instead:
Nothing happened, even after a five-day build cycle. So I built a new 2010 Garrison, and set it to be used as reinforcements.
I figured that the old unit whose template I changed could now draw all the modern equipment he needed from the guy marked as "for reinforcements".
Nothing happened, even after a five-day build cycle.
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