Posted by: Michael Sandy
« on: August 26, 2019, 11:56:26 PM »Yeah, a Nuclear Thermal navy really only is useful if you are sharing a system.
However, there are some nuclear thermal ships and nuclear pulse ships that I kept in use for a LONG time.
The freighters and colony ship I built for the Earth Moon run are still in use, sometimes running to Mars as well. I sometimes send them off with the Salvager fleet, because what is important is their cargo hold and the fact that they are small enough to jump with my salvager. Their slow speed isn't all that important because they are stationary for long periods of time.
My first geosurvey ships were upgraded to Nuclear pulse, but never upgraded beyond that, because that shipyard was busy doing other stuff. It wasn't worth the retooling.
My first jump probe fighters were nuclear pulse, and one has managed to survive their rather dangerous job into Magnetic Plasma.
The jump point monitors (15 ton satellites that are basically nothing but crew endurance and count as commercial because they have no system that can break) aren't going to become obsolete. The PDC CVs won't become obsolete. I didn't build any with boat bays this game, but they wouldn't be obsolete as PDCs if I had.
However, there are some nuclear thermal ships and nuclear pulse ships that I kept in use for a LONG time.
The freighters and colony ship I built for the Earth Moon run are still in use, sometimes running to Mars as well. I sometimes send them off with the Salvager fleet, because what is important is their cargo hold and the fact that they are small enough to jump with my salvager. Their slow speed isn't all that important because they are stationary for long periods of time.
My first geosurvey ships were upgraded to Nuclear pulse, but never upgraded beyond that, because that shipyard was busy doing other stuff. It wasn't worth the retooling.
My first jump probe fighters were nuclear pulse, and one has managed to survive their rather dangerous job into Magnetic Plasma.
The jump point monitors (15 ton satellites that are basically nothing but crew endurance and count as commercial because they have no system that can break) aren't going to become obsolete. The PDC CVs won't become obsolete. I didn't build any with boat bays this game, but they wouldn't be obsolete as PDCs if I had.