Comments Thread

[SevenOfCarina]

There are two R15 reactors for a total of 4.8 HS. That doesn't look right. If each reactor is 2.4 HS, with 4 power per HS, they should generate SQRT(2.4/10)*4*2.4 =4.70 power, not 15. For 15 power, you need ~5 HS reactors, for a total of 10 HS. Maybe they're only getting counted once?

Unless there's some change I've missed.

[Steve Walmsley (OP)]

Power plant changes:
http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=8495.msg102707;topicseen#msg102707

Helps improve energy weapons vs missiles.

[SevenOfCarina]

Nevermind, I'm an idiot. I thought 10 HS reactors produced 100% of their baseline power rating per HS, but it looks like it's actually 1 HS. Sorry. 

[Steve Walmsley (OP)]

Nevermind, I'm an idiot. I thought 10 HS reactors produced 100% of their baseline power rating per HS, but it looks like it's actually 1 HS. Sorry. 

No problem. You were probably confusing reactors with shields.

[Garfunkel]

Here we go! So a 10-year truce to begin with, before the dogs of war are unleashed.

[Steve Walmsley (OP)]

Here we go! So a 10-year truce to begin with, before the dogs of war are unleashed.

I hope. Last time I tried a similar setup with a multiple NPRs in Sol, one Sol NPR shot at an alien NPR and the alien was destroyed before the missile arrived, so the missile re targeted itself and struck a second Sol NPR. Chaos ensued

[Bremen]

I take it all the factions other than the British are NPRs?

[Steve Walmsley (OP)]

I take it all the factions other than the British are NPRs?

Yes, all NPRs. I need to test Diplomacy so I thought this setup would test everything

[Garfunkel]

Here we go! So a 10-year truce to begin with, before the dogs of war are unleashed.

I hope. Last time I tried a similar setup with a multiple NPRs in Sol, one Sol NPR shot at an alien NPR and the alien was destroyed before the missile arrived, so the missile re targeted itself and struck a second Sol NPR. Chaos ensued

Hahaha, yeah I remember that game. Sol was such a massive battlefield!

[Father Tim]

Oh, the poor Chinese Martians.

[Marski]

R U L E  B R I T A N N I A

[Zincat]

Looking good so far 

A small question. You wrote:
"British scientists believe that planets such as Groombridge-B I can be ‘terraformed’, although the technology required to do so is not currently a scientific priority. In any event, the companion star is so distant that a colony would not be practicable. The fifth planet of the companion is a superjovian and therefore has a Lagrange Point but no matching point exists in the primary system."

I assume that's just until you send a stabilization ship and create that lagrange point, right? 

[Steve Walmsley (OP)]

Looking good so far 

A small question. You wrote:
"British scientists believe that planets such as Groombridge-B I can be ‘terraformed’, although the technology required to do so is not currently a scientific priority. In any event, the companion star is so distant that a colony would not be practicable. The fifth planet of the companion is a superjovian and therefore has a Lagrange Point but no matching point exists in the primary system."

I assume that's just until you send a stabilization ship and create that lagrange point, right? 

Yes, I can do that, although the system is 10 GY old so minerals are scarce. The survey of the primary's planets yielded very little.

[clement]

Steve,
With multiple recess sending jump stabilization ships to the same jump points, do they work cumulatively to stabilize the jump point or is it effectively a race based on each ships arrival time and quality of component?

If they contributed points towards the stabilization they could help each other vs. there being no net before for the presence of multiple stabilizers.

[Father Tim]

Currently it's a race (i.e. every ship after the first is wasted. . . unless its CO has a big enough bonus to overcome the head start).

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Personally, I don't think 'multiple stabilization ships working together reduce the time required to stabilize' is a good idea.