Aurora 4x
New Players => The Academy => Topic started by: vorpal+5 on December 02, 2017, 03:38:55 PM
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My new GravSurvey ship can't jump with the help of my Jump Tender (Military grade, 4000 tons capacity). Can someone explain me the issue?
Gateway class Jump Tender 1500 tons 51 Crew 158 BP TCS 30 TH 48 EM 0
1600 km/s JR 3-50 Armour 1-11 Shields 0-0 Sensors 1/1/0/0 Damage Control 2 PPV 0
Annual Failure Rate: 0% IFR: 0% Maintenance Capacity 132 MSP
Spare Berths 1
Lawson Marine J4000(3-50) Military Jump Drive Max Ship Size 4000 tons Distance 50k km Squadron Size 3
Lawson Marine 12 EP Prototype N-Pulse Thruster (4) Power 12 Fuel Use 245.53% Armour 0 Exp 15%
Fuel Capacity 100 000 Litres Range 4.9 billion km (35 days at full power)
This design is classed as a military vessel for maintenance purposes
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Huygens - B class Long Range Gravsurvey Vessel 2000 tons 60 Crew 477.4 BP TCS 40 TH 90 EM 0
2250 km/s Armour 1-14 Shields 0-0 Sensors 1/1/3/0 Damage Control 3 PPV 0
Annual Failure Rate: 0% IFR: 0% Maintenance Capacity 448 MSP
Spare Berths 0
Lawson Marine 9 EP Ion Ramscoop (10) Power 9 Fuel Use 33.76% Armour 0 Exp 7%
Fuel Capacity 260 000 Litres Range 69.3 billion km (356 days at full power)
Gravitational Survey Sensors (3) 3 Survey Points
This design is classed as a military vessel for maintenance purposes
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The accompanying mini-tanker has no issue. Previous 1000-tons Huygens had no issues either, with the very same Gateway JT.
*Meuse River class Replenishment Ship 500 tons 5 Crew 75.6 BP TCS 10 TH 18 EM 0
2400 km/s Armour 1-5 Shields 0-0 Sensors 1/1/0/0 Damage Control 1 PPV 0
Annual Failure Rate: 1% IFR: 0% Maintenance Capacity 47 MSP
Spare Berths 2
Lawson Marine 12 EP Ion Drive (optimized) (2) Power 12 Fuel Use 69.3% Armour 0 Exp 10%
Fuel Capacity 320 000 Litres Range 166.2 billion km (801 days at full power)
This design is classed as a military vessel for maintenance purposes
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The actual maximum ship size that can be jumped is the tonnage of the jump ship. The jump drive has to exceed the jump ship's tonnage to function, but otherwise has no impact on max tonnage. In this case you're trying to jump a 2000ton ship with a 1500ton max.
So for example, if you put that same jump drive in a 3000 ton vessel, it would have a 3000ton jump max. If you put it in a 4000 ton vessel, it'd have a 4000ton jump max. If you put it in a 4050 ton vessel, the ship would be unable to jump itself.
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Oh god, you got a logical explanation from something that scratched my head for 30 mn!!
Thanks a lot.
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Jump Drive max transfer sizing is one of those slightly weird part of Aurora. I don't know why the Jump Ship's sizing has an effect, but it does and produces this trap for newer players.
Thinking about it, jump-tankers or similar support ships are a decent option for making use of that hull space you need to get the Jump Drives working properly.
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Not too fond of the rule, after some more thoughts. It means the 'service ship' must be as big as any of the ship it wants to 'service', so this seems too restrictive. At the very least, it could be an additional parameter in jump technology, the % ratio between the 2 ships. More sub-parameters in a component is always a nice touch.
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it's the difference between jump tech making better jump ships or just smaller jump ships. it has a lot of balance and ship design implications especially as jump drive tech advances. For example you could start jumping warships with fighters that are just the drive, 0.1 crew requirement and nothing else.