Aurora 4x
VB6 Aurora => VB6 Mechanics => Topic started by: NuclearStudent on December 21, 2016, 03:34:01 PM
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I looked on the reddit and searched the forum, but I was surprised by the fact that I couldn't find the answer easily.
Anyone know? If not, I'll do some destructive testing of my own and get back to you guys.
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I can't find it, but have a suspicion that it's virtually linear with engine size, perhaps with a little randomness.
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I can't find it, but have a suspicion that it's virtually linear with engine size, perhaps with a little randomness.
Shouldn't it logically depend on engine power output rather then size? Aurora is often logical :)
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Well, searching the forum I found another question about it where they showed a 1500 power top tech level engine had a secondary explosion strength of only 20 or 30... so... I dunno. Unless someone finds the details buried in an arcane mechanics post, or steve shows up we'll need to science this.
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Well, searching the forum I found another question about it where they showed a 1500 power top tech level engine had a secondary explosion strength of only 20 or 30... so... I dunno. Unless someone finds the details buried in an arcane mechanics post, or steve shows up we'll need to science this.
I think that small highly boosted military engines had larger explosions than large civilian engines with roughly the same engine power, but I can't remember.
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Okay so I did it, it's a bit sloppy (like this forum post is going to be, because I accidentally deleted the previous one), but the results seem consistent, so without further ado:
Engine size doesn't matter.
It's linear.
See the following graph (mean explosion damage vs. engine power):
(http://i.imgur.com/cV2qMwo.png)
The equation is:
mean explosion damage = 0.12 * EP + 0.81
And the standard deviation is likewise linear (I can pull up a graph if you guys want) and the equation is as follows:
stddev explosion damage = 0.07 * EP - 0.11
Also, as the previous post says, military and commercial engines might be different (I can test if people are curious), but I did all military engines.
I can also put the actual data up here if you guys want, but the means were all calculated from many explosions (between 30 and 336), most significantly more than 30.
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Nice graph, were all the engines tested the same tech level? I Doubt it makes a difference because that seems to match up with what I would expect.
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Nice graph, were all the engines tested the same tech level? I Doubt it makes a difference because that seems to match up with what I would expect.
Yeah they were all interal fusion confinement drives (I don't remember if that's the exact name, but eh). Power modifiers varied a little, but it doesn't look (at a glance) like any of the points are significantly out of line. Don't feel like doing a hypothesis test, so just going by sight.
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I suspect that the explosion of commercial engines is the same strength vs power, but just have much lower chance to happen ( Since explosion chance scales with power modifier it can never be above 5% ).
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Engine secondary explosion strength is random between 1 and 25% of engine power.