Posted by: sloanjh
« on: January 21, 2010, 04:10:22 PM »Quote from: "Hawkeye"
Quote from: "sloanjh"Quote from: "Hawkeye"Engineering:
You can repair the largest system on board only once. On small ships like DDs and CLs (mine are no larger than 10.000t) I aim for spare stockpiles able to repair the largest system three times, but this is, of course a presonal preference. At least go for a stockpile of 120, so you can repair any part via damage control.
Here's an example where design philosophies differ. Since a GB is a parasite, I put minimal engineering into it. If I can afford it, I go for enough spares to suffer a worst-case breakdown (which is what you seem to have done). Sometimes (at low armor tech, usually) my mass budget is so tight that I can't afford that, at which point I'll make a "flying coffin" design that breaks (and possibly explodes) if it has a maintenance failure.
John
I agree with you on a gunboat, but while the above ship is _called_ a gunboat, at 4.200t, id rather rate it as a large corvette/small destroyer.
Sorry - hadn't noticed that part - the name threw me. I was talking about "real" GB, of course.
John