Questions Not Worth Their Own Thread: C# Edition

[Elvin]

I know O in status means ship is in overhaul, but I got some ships in fleet with A or AO and some have not. What does the letter A mean? and why some ships and not others of same type

"A" means that that ship's Active Sensors are online.

[vorpal+5]

What are the solutions to repair a fighter which has innately 0 MSP (or would not have enough MSP for damage control? Luckily for me, the fighter was in orbit of Mars, with a 40.000 tons shipyard, so it was promptly repaired, but it feels weird to have a large SY used for a tiny fighter.

Would enough maintenance facilities plus enough MSP on the ground repair automatically the fighter? If not, what can I do? Devise a "fake carrier" with hangars, insert damaged fighters there and wait for the mothership to auto-repair?

[Garfunkel]

Yes, you need a carrier to house the fighters to repair components. Of course, if the fighters are inside a hangar in the first place, they will not suffer maintenance failures at all.

[TheTalkingMeowth]

Yes, you need a carrier to house the fighters to repair components. Of course, if the fighters are inside a hangar in the first place, they will not suffer maintenance failures at all.

Something I've been wondering about: if your fighters are outside the hangar when the construction cycle tick happens, do they get a full 5 day increment added to their maintenance and deployment clocks?

[nuclearslurpee]

Something I've been wondering about: if your fighters are outside the hangar when the construction cycle tick happens, do they get a full 5 day increment added to their maintenance and deployment clocks?

Yes. The flip side is that if you time a fighter deployment so that they fly out of the hangar, do their mission, and fly back in before the construction cycle happens, you can avoid any maintenance failures aside from weapons breaking when you try to fire them.

One of several small ways one can exploit the construction cycle if one chooses to. In practice if you are not trying to exploit anything then the average maintenance clock on your fighters will be roughly equal to the time they've been deployed after a largeish number of deployments.

[mostly_harmless]

Hello,

I read that orbital populations count 100% towards the manufacturing sector. Is that still supposed to be the case for C# version? Since my pop overview says otherwise. I have a surface colony with 10M pop and 6 M pop in orbitals. The Manufacturing sector only shows 4M assigned to it. (its a 1000 CC world).

Thomas

[Lord Solar]

Hello,

I read that orbital populations count 100% towards the manufacturing sector. Is that still supposed to be the case for C# version? Since my pop overview says otherwise. I have a surface colony with 10M pop and 6 M pop in orbitals. The Manufacturing sector only shows 4M assigned to it. (its a 1000 CC world).

Thomas

Hey Thomas, orbital habitats do not count 100% towards manufacturing.

[Borealis4x]

Has anyone ever done a game where they purposely classify all their ships as military for RP purposes? Is it Hell?

[Froggiest1982]

Has anyone ever done a game where they purposely classify all their ships as military for RP purposes? Is it Hell?

I am quite sure this is the way (The Mandalorian TM) that Jorgen_CAB plays aurora.

Or at least I remember somebody very active in the forum mentioning it.

[Droll]

Has anyone ever done a game where they purposely classify all their ships as military for RP purposes? Is it Hell?

I am quite sure this is the way (The Mandalorian TM) that Jorgen_CAB plays aurora.

Or at least I remember somebody very active in the forum mentioning it.

Meanwhile I play with maintenance turned off cuz I can't be arsed. Though my warships do have 2-4 years of maintenance life as I still put on engineering bays as if maintenance is on.

[vorpal+5]

I'm not too clear on maintenance overcapacity. I'm trying to figure this out with a real case happening in my game but that's still not too clear. I have a colony with a maintenance capacity of 2000 tons, for 2300 tons of fighters in orbit and 2 of them in overhaul. There is ample MSP on the ground, but there is no spacedock or anything. Before overcapacity, it never prevented correct overhaul though.

So how overcapacity will enter the equation here? One random fighter each production cycle gets skipped? Or all gets some penalties?

[db48x]

I'm not too clear on maintenance overcapacity. I'm trying to figure this out with a real case happening in my game but that's still not too clear. I have a colony with a maintenance capacity of 2000 tons, for 2300 tons of fighters in orbit and 2 of them in overhaul. There is ample MSP on the ground, but there is no spacedock or anything. Before overcapacity, it never prevented correct overhaul though.

So how overcapacity will enter the equation here? One random fighter each production cycle gets skipped? Or all gets some penalties?

When you're under the cap all the ships in orbit will get enough maintenance to keep their clocks from going up. When you're over the cap, the same amount of maintenance is shared by all the ships, so they all receive less than they need. Their clocks will be going up, but not as fast as if they were getting no maintenance at all. The formula is documented somewhere in one of Steve's posts; consult the index to find it.

[Borealis4x]

So I understand that the tonnage was see in Aurora is actually the volume of hydrogen that the ship displaces. How do you convert this into metric tons?

[db48x]

So I understand that the tonnage was see in Aurora is actually the volume of hydrogen that the ship displaces. How do you convert this into metric tons?

You can't, really. Different components would have different density, after all.

[nuclearslurpee]

So I understand that the tonnage was see in Aurora is actually the volume of hydrogen that the ship displaces. How do you convert this into metric tons?

Personally, I don't buy that explanation and just use tons as a direct mass measurement in my headcanon. But anyways...

The density of hydrogen at STP (0°, 1 atm) is 0.0899 kg/m^3. So one metric ton of hydrogen thus represents a nominal volume of (1000 kg / 0.0899 kg/m^3) = 11,123 m^3. We might as well round this to ~10,000 m^3 per ton to make estimating easier.

This means that a 1,000-ton ship occupies a volume of ~0.1 km^3, that is to say that a "small" FAC could take the shape of a square prism 1 km x 1 km x 100 m. Your definition of "small" may vary from mine, but in my mind at least this is a tad outside the range I would consider "small".

The actual density would vary quite a lot depending on numerous factors (not the least of which is the number of large, spacious atriums festooned with precious jewels and placed throughout the ship to raise morale and display the wealth of your empire), but since the density of steel is about 8 tons/m^3 a reasonable estimate would be a density of 1 (metric) ton/m^3 (likely a gross overestimate, but it serves our purpose) to account for alternating areas of dense structures and circuitry as well as open areas for crew walkways and such. This implies that a "ton" of spaceship in Aurora equates to ~10,000 metric tons of physical mass, which means that your 1,000-ton "small" FAC actually contains 10,000,000 metric tons of matter, give or take a zero. Again, for a certain definition of "small"...