Posted by: vorpal+5
« on: Today at 09:20:28 AM »Darn. I thought that the towed ship would be able to fire its engines. Thanks.
Posted by: nuclearslurpee
« on: Today at 08:22:27 AM »I'm scratching my head as to why my Jump Stabilisation Ship is tracted at a meager 342 km/s. Is there a penalty at some point if the masses of the two ships are vastly different?
My Tug is 10,000 tons and has a speed of 2400 km/s. My Bïfrost JSS has a base speed of 333 km/s. So what gives?
There are two important rules here:
- A ship under tow does not contribute its own engine power to the speed of the fleet.
- The speed of a tug plus a ship under tow is determined by the tug's engine power and the total mass of both the tug and the towed ship.
Given this, you have a total of 480 engine power on the tug, and a total of 70,000 tons (tug 10,000 + station 60,000) or 1,400 HS. 480 EP / 1,400 HS * 1,000 = 342 km/s, so the numbers check out correctly.
Posted by: skoormit
« on: Today at 08:21:38 AM »Factors (in real world):
Star Radiation Strength
Distance from Star
Rotation of body
Atmosphere
Albedo
Stefan-Boltzmann Constant
In Aurora, the atmosphere and albedo are not part of the calculation for base temp. They are part of the calculation of surface temp.
I don't think the Stefan-Boltzmann constant is part of Aurora's model.
Posted by: vorpal+5
« on: Today at 07:10:10 AM »I'm scratching my head as to why my Jump Stabilisation Ship is tracted at a meager 342 km/s. Is there a penalty at some point if the masses of the two ships are vastly different?
My Tug is 10,000 tons and has a speed of 2400 km/s. My Bïfrost JSS has a base speed of 333 km/s. So what gives?
My Tug is 10,000 tons and has a speed of 2400 km/s. My Bïfrost JSS has a base speed of 333 km/s. So what gives?
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TG-01 Sheperd 001 (Sheperd class Tug) 10 000 tons 114 Crew 360.5 BP TCS 200 TH 480 EM 0
2400 km/s Armour 1-41 Shields 0-0 HTK 47 Sensors 5/0/0/0 DCR 1-1 PPV 0
MSP 132 Max Repair 100 MSP
Tractor Beam
Lieutenant Commander Control Rating 1 BRG
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months
● Recreation Room-25 ● Library-25 2x ● Escape Pod-5 ● Security hardpoint-5
Honeywell Aero Nuclear Thermal Engine C80 (6) Power 480 Fuel Use 10.06% Signature 80 Explosion 5%
Fuel Capacity 850 000 Litres Range 152.1 billion km (733 days at full power)
Refuelling Capability: 50 000 litres per hour Complete Refuel 17 hours
Silas-Nein Small Thermal Sensor 1-5 (1) Sensitivity 5 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 17.7m km
This design is classed as a Commercial Vessel for maintenance purposes
This design is classed as a Tug for auto-assignment purposes
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JSS-01 Bifröst 001 (Bifröst class Jump Stabilisation Station) 60 000 tons 197 Crew 1 384.8 BP TCS 1 200 TH 400 EM 0
333 km/s Armour 1-136 Shields 0-0 HTK 52 Sensors 5/0/0/0 DCR 1-0 PPV 0
MSP 24 Max Repair 1 000 MSP
Commander Control Rating 2 BRG AUX
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months
Jump Point Stabilisation: 180 days
● Large Crew Lounge-100 ● Onboard Hospital-50 ● Recreation Room-25 2x ● Security hardpoint-5 9x ● Escape Pod-5 3x ● Medium Hydroponics-50 ● Promenade-50 ● Fitness Center-50 ● Library-25 ● Small Armory-5
Honeywell Aero Nuclear Thermal Engine C80 (5) Power 400 Fuel Use 10.06% Signature 80 Explosion 5%
Fuel Capacity 1 400 000 Litres Range 41.7 billion km (1449 days at full power)
Refuelling Capability: 50 000 litres per hour Complete Refuel 28 hours
Silas-Nein Small Thermal Sensor 1-5 (1) Sensitivity 5 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 17.7m km
This design is classed as a Commercial Vessel for maintenance purposes
This design is classed as a Stabilisation Ship for auto-assignment purposes
Posted by: Pedroig
« on: Today at 06:56:24 AM »Does anyone know the calculation for the current base temperature of a system body?
I suspect it's a simple matter of star brightness and current distance from star.
Prior to eccentric orbits, the base temperature of a body never varied, so I could just use the value of FCT_SystemBody.BaseTemperature.
But that value seems not to vary over time.
well there is this: https://www.astro.princeton.edu/~strauss/FRS113/writeup3/ but I"m not sure it is quite that complex in game.
Factors (in real world):
Star Radiation Strength
Distance from Star
Rotation of body
Atmosphere
Albedo
Stefan-Boltzmann Constant
Posted by: skoormit
« on: Today at 06:38:03 AM »Does anyone know the calculation for the current base temperature of a system body?
I suspect it's a simple matter of star brightness and current distance from star.
Prior to eccentric orbits, the base temperature of a body never varied, so I could just use the value of FCT_SystemBody.BaseTemperature.
But that value seems not to vary over time.
I suspect it's a simple matter of star brightness and current distance from star.
Prior to eccentric orbits, the base temperature of a body never varied, so I could just use the value of FCT_SystemBody.BaseTemperature.
But that value seems not to vary over time.
Posted by: vorpal+5
« on: Today at 01:59:49 AM »Thank you all for the answers to my questions, it was quite informative. 
Posted by: Kaiser
« on: Yesterday at 04:02:58 PM »Have to ask, there are Troops actually aboard said ship?
Asking from experience...
Yes yes there were troops aboard
I figured out the issue, I had to create a colony before, Jesus Christ.
Posted by: Pedroig
« on: Yesterday at 02:43:48 PM »Have to ask, there are Troops actually aboard said ship?
Asking from experience...
Asking from experience...
Posted by: Kaiser
« on: Yesterday at 02:11:58 PM »I want launch a ground invasion of Europa, my landing ship has a drop troops bay module, but for some reason I do not have the drop troops command, why?
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America class Landing Craft Assault 73,025 tons 292 Crew 2,256.6 BP TCS 1,460 TH 800 EM 0
547 km/s Armour 2-155 Shields 0-0 HTK 89 Sensors 0/0/0/0 DCR 1-0 PPV 0
MSP 19 Max Repair 800 MSP
Troop Capacity 50,000 tons Drop Capable
Lieutenant Commander Control Rating 1 BRG
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months
Dang Aero Engines Commercial Nuclear Pulse Engine EP200.00 (4) Power 800 Fuel Use 4.74% Signature 200 Explosion 5%
Fuel Capacity 504,000 Litres Range 26.2 billion km (553 days at full power)
Sevilla-Hurrell Active Search Sensor AS29-R100 (50%) (1) GPS 1600 Range 29.6m km Resolution 100
Ground Forces
1x Brigate
This design is classed as a Commercial Vessel for maintenance purposes
This design is classed as a Troop Transport for auto-assignment purposes
Posted by: nuclearslurpee
« on: Yesterday at 10:23:49 AM »2 - How do you see the details of ground units embarked in TT module? I would like to add a 100-tons TT module on each of my medium+ warships, but it seems you don't know much about the troop once it is boarded.
You can see some information in the "Transported Items" tab on the naval organization window. You can also see the entire formation detail on the Ground Forces window, OOB tab, if you check the box to show units on ships (which is off by default).
As an aside, while 100 tons is probably fine for ship's defense squads, I would probably suggest using 200 tons if you want to conduct boarding actions, as I've found in practice that 100 tons is a bit too small for most typical ship sizes you might want to capture.
Posted by: skoormit
« on: Yesterday at 09:11:43 AM »1 - is it possible to speed up the construction of a space station with components? I see no checkbox, so I guess it's not (possible)
Not if you are building the space station with Construction Factories.
Posted by: Andrew
« on: Yesterday at 04:38:55 AM »STO's workwith theweapon you built for them. So if you want them to use spinal mounts, then you need to design a spinal laser/plasma cannon and put it in an STOmount. I and at least some NPR's do this so it is straightforward
Posted by: vorpal+5
« on: Yesterday at 03:52:54 AM »Ah well, Truce. I believe no-one but Steve no the fine details about it. Anyway, moving on!
1 - is it possible to speed up the construction of a space station with components? I see no checkbox, so I guess it's not (possible)
2 - How do you see the details of ground units embarked in TT module? I would like to add a 100-tons TT module on each of my medium+ warships, but it seems you don't know much about the troop once it is boarded.
3 - Do STOs benefit implicitly from the Spinal mount research? Or never ever?
1 - is it possible to speed up the construction of a space station with components? I see no checkbox, so I guess it's not (possible)
2 - How do you see the details of ground units embarked in TT module? I would like to add a 100-tons TT module on each of my medium+ warships, but it seems you don't know much about the troop once it is boarded.
3 - Do STOs benefit implicitly from the Spinal mount research? Or never ever?
Posted by: vorpal+5
« on: April 10, 2024, 12:31:32 AM »I had setup the Truce countdown for 20 years, and 4 years after my start 2 of the NPRs in Sol (Greater China and Southern Federation) are exchanging blows. The DB is showing 0 for the truce countdown, so somehow it has been set to 0 for reason unknown.
