Posted by: mavikfelna
« on: July 25, 2009, 01:09:40 PM »Quote from: "alexwildstar"
thanks guys I am still trying to figure out how to design the electronic stuff.
Now when building feeding my power requirements if I equalize the number on the left side on the ship design page will I have enough power to fire my weapons as much as I want. I thought in previous answers I wanted to have more power than the required power on the right. So much to learn so little time lol. fyi this is my test game so I got outrageous tech and populations but it lets me try and figure out all the little stuff I need to know for a real campaign without having to start all over when I make a mistake
On the power requirements; The number to the left is the total power required, the number to the right is the amount of power per 5 sec. increment that you can load. It is only the number on the right hand side that you need to worry about when determining your reactor power output. This is also why matching your capacitor size to the power requirements is so important, because if you have larger capacitors than required, you'll have to fully charge the capacitor bank before the weapon will fire.
So in the case of your lasers, even though they only need 16 points of power to fire, they have to charge 100 points because of the capacitors you are using.
--Mav