Posted by: obsidian_green
« on: July 29, 2017, 07:02:02 PM »When tug tugs they work as one unit with summed mass and engine power. Better to jump separately.
Umm, then jumps must require engines on the ships trying to transit. I designed the fuel harvesters I tried to transit without any engines, so maybe that's the problem. I tugged an older class of harvesters across the jump point w/out issue. Each had enough engine to scoot them around at ~100km/s (might even have been less), but they were tendered across the JP and I didn't even have to break up the ten-ship group (since it was standard transit).
If what I've described is correct, it means a jump tender will work for standard transit of a tug-pair that together exceeds the tender's jump-rating and mass-limit as long as the individual ships don't exceed limits and each has an engine. It won't work for a tug-pair in which only the tug has engines unless the pair's combined mass is less than the tender limit? It must work for engineless pods because I've read descriptions of them being used---in that case, the mass of the combined pair must not exceed the jump tender's mass-limit?