Posted by: Andrew
« on: December 26, 2022, 12:51:35 PM »IIRC there is final defensive fire and final defensive fire(self) , final defensive fire will defend all ships in the same location
Thanks, for final defensive fire does that target any missiles in range or only those targeted on the ship?Next Area Defense is rubbish it will engage if within weapon range at the end of the 5 sec interval, as that is 340,0000 km that is not good for your railguns the missiles almost certainly hit before they get a shot. Set to Final defensive fire and they will fire just before missile impact
This is correct. Area defensive fire will only fire at missiles which end the increment in weapon range, so it is really only good if you use small forward turret platforms or fighters as a forward defense, even then it is probably not very efficient. Final defensive fire guarantees a shot at missiles at 10k km range, before they detonate, and this is what you want 99.8% of the time.
Next Area Defense is rubbish it will engage if within weapon range at the end of the 5 sec interval, as that is 340,0000 km that is not good for your railguns the missiles almost certainly hit before they get a shot. Set to Final defensive fire and they will fire just before missile impact
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Is the owner of the missiles set to hostile?(Number one reason for defenses not engaging)The missiles are definitely hostile. I will have a look at the point defence options and if final defensive fire makes any difference. I have plenty of AMMs ships, this is me messing around with some other design concepts so I can create an opponent that will challenge my race.
Next Area Defense is rubbish it will engage if within weapon range at the end of the 5 sec interval, as that is 340,0000 km that is not good for your railguns the missiles almost certainly hit before they get a shot. Set to Final defensive fire and they will fire just before missile impact
I may be wrong about the rules for Area Defense as I never use it because it is almost never worth using unless you are using ultra long range lasers or similar and are deployed along the flight path of the missiles to their target. If you want long range missile intercepts use AMM's
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What's wrong with this CLE design? I haven't really used Railguns in Aurora C#, and this design didn't appear to work that well as a CLE. Any advice would be welcome, including telling me that I should be using a different weapon typeCode: [Select]Diamond class Escort Cruiser 16,154 tons 468 Crew 3,576.7 BP TCS 323 TH 1,920 EM 2,400
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16,154 tonsYou can easily make your ship approximately 73% better by rounding the tonnage down to 16,000.
Diamond class Escort Cruiser 16,154 tons 468 Crew 3,576.7 BP TCS 323 TH 1,920 EM 2,400
5942 km/s Armour 2-56 Shields 80-480 HTK 106 Sensors 0/0/0/0 DCR 5 PPV 40
Maint Life 1.64 Years MSP 740 AFR 390% IFR 5.4% 1YR 326 5YR 4,887 Max Repair 360 MSP
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Intended Deployment Time: 12 months Morale Check Required
Potts Aircraft Engine Co Magneto-plasma Drive EP160.00 (12) Power 1920 Fuel Use 50.0% Signature 160 Explosion 10%
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Talbot Defence Industries Theta S40 / R480 Shields (2) Recharge Time 480 seconds (0.2 per second)
Benson Precision Arms 12cm Railgun V50/C2 (8x4) Range 100,000km TS: 5,942 km/s Power 6-2 RM 50,000 km ROF 15
Newton-Butler Beam Fire Control R320-TS20000 (4) Max Range: 320,000 km TS: 20,000 km/s 97 94 91 88 84 81 78 75 72 69
Power & Cole Stellarator Fusion Reactor R12 (2) Total Power Output 23.5 Exp 5%
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