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New Players => The Academy => Topic started by: Traveler on November 23, 2012, 09:07:25 PM

Title: commercial engines
Post by: Traveler on November 23, 2012, 09:07:25 PM

How do I research and build commercial engines so that I can design commercial vessels?  The tutorial seems out of date.

Title: Re: commercial engines
Post by: Erik L on November 23, 2012, 10:25:19 PM

Quote from: Traveler on November 23, 2012, 09:07:25 PM

How do I research and build commercial engines so that I can design commercial vessels?  The tutorial seems out of date.

Commercial engines are size 25 or smaller.

Title: Re: commercial engines
Post by: Traveler on November 23, 2012, 10:46:29 PM

Thanks.   Just discovered that.  ;)

Title: Re: commercial engines
Post by: Conscript Gary on November 23, 2012, 11:16:40 PM

Size 25 or larger, you mean.
And also maximum efficiency 50%

Title: Re: commercial engines
Post by: metalax on November 24, 2012, 07:43:39 AM

Note that 6.1 has a bug that means that military engines don't cause a class to flip from commercial to military when installed. This is already fixed for the next version.

Title: Re: commercial engines
Post by: Traveler on November 24, 2012, 09:14:28 PM

Quote from: metalax link=topic=5642. msg57861#msg57861 date=1353764619

Note that 6. 1 has a bug that means that military engines don't cause a class to flip from commercial to military when installed.  This is already fixed for the next version.

Hmm, I have 6. 1 and on the design page I can cause the class to flip by changing engines.

Title: Re: commercial engines
Post by: metalax on November 25, 2012, 06:57:58 AM

Quote from: Traveler on November 24, 2012, 09:14:28 PM

Hmm, I have 6. 1 and on the design page I can cause the class to flip by changing engines.

Are you using engines of the same size as your commercial ones? I've just verified in 6.1 that a size 50, x1 power, so military engine, does not cause the ship to become military. If I recall correctly from when the bug was tracked down, this is because the class design was still just looking at the engine size to determine if it should flip to being military rather than checking the engine power mod as well.