Posted by: clement
« on: October 18, 2012, 08:27:05 AM »
Also, you can look at the weapons you have placed on the ship and calculate what you will need from them.
15cm Laser (4) Range 180,000km TS: 6000 km/s Power 6-3 RM 3 ROF 10 6 6 6 4 3 3
In the above snippet, there are 4 lasers on the ship. You can see in the Power information section that they require 6 power to fire and recharge at a rate of 3 power every 5 seconds. So in any single 5 second increment, the entire bank of 4 Lasers will draw 3 x 4 = 12 Power. The ROF (Rate of Fire) is 10 seconds because it requires two 5 second pulses for the lasers to recharge since the capacitors are only able to support 3 units of Power per increment.
If your reactors create 5 Power, you would need to have 3 of them on the ship to create the 12 Power required every 5 seconds. (In that case I would also suggest just adding a 5th laser to maximize efficiency)
If your reactors create 6 Power, then you would need to have 2 of them on the ship in order to create the 12 Power required every 5 seconds.