So, I'm playing with a Meson PD PDC design to throw around, and I'd like opinions on the design:
Decius class Point Defence Base 45,000 tons 3399 Crew 7819.6 BP TCS 900 TH 0 EM 0
Armour 20-112 Sensors 1/24 Damage Control Rating 30 PPV 435.2
Hangar Deck Capacity 1000 tons Troop Capacity: 5 Battalions
Quad R18/C6 Meson Cannon Turret (20x4) Range 180,000km TS: 25000 km/s Power 24-24 RM 18 ROF 5 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
PDC Fire Control S08 180-25000 H50 (1) Max Range: 360,000 km TS: 25000 km/s 97 94 92 89 86 83 81 78 75 72
PDC Fire Control S04 90-25000 H50 (2) Max Range: 180,000 km TS: 25000 km/s 94 89 83 78 72 67 61 56 50 44
Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactor Technology PB-1 (22) Total Power Output 528 Armour 0 Exp 5%
Active Search Sensor MR5-R1 (2) GPS 24 Range 5.8m km Resolution 1
ECCM-4 (3)
This design is classed as a Planetary Defence Centre and can be pre-fabricated in 18 sections
A few explanations on the design:
The extra Reactors are in case the enemy manages to get a lucky hit with a meson and destroy one of them, to allow me to keep the same rate of fire. I'm tempted to make them less likely to explode but it's probably best to wait a bit until I have further reactor tech to reduce the chances of running low on power.
I plan to have a basically dedicated sensor pdc with much larger active sensors, but as a backup I gave it a small, size 0.5 active sensor, so it can run by itself if it needs to. It has two of them so I can have a backup if one of them is taken out. (And also because I had the spare space to complete the 45000 tons, and the sensor cost little anyway.
Opinions? Should I have more turrets? Less turrets? The biggest costs in the design are basically the fire controls, should I have less of them? Ignore the costs and get a couple more?