Posted by: Brian Neumann
« on: August 23, 2010, 12:25:05 PM »The problem is that the cost of the jump drive is based on the cost of the background tech used times the total size of the engine. This means that while a jump engine that has an will move 5 hull spaces for each space used by the engine is more expensive than one that only gets 3 per hull space of engine, the total cost for a given capacity engine is going to be lower the higher your engine efficincy is. I strongly recommend not building any jump engines untill you get an efficiency of at least 4 (4000 rp project) if not 5 (8000 rp project) These are relitivly low cost to reasearch and will have a dramatic effect on the cost to both reasearch the specific engines (prototypeing) and building them into ships.
Brian
Brian