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30k tons...

We should make a battleship class, if only for the interstellar prestige. Plus it will make an excellent military jumpship. Maybe wait for the new engine and power techs, though :)

Also, how are the private investors doing? Any new companies, and are the current ones growing much? :)
 
Avernite said:
30k tons...

We should make a battleship class, if only for the interstellar prestige. Plus it will make an excellent military jumpship. Maybe wait for the new engine and power techs, though :)

Also, how are the private investors doing? Any new companies, and are the current ones growing much? :)
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Ah, but then we'd need a Dreadnought class at about 45k tons that would be a one-off flagship for our fleet, think the Executor from Episodes V and VI. ;)
 
One thing that really pushes back on your ship size is the research cost of the actual ship component. Because it's such a large component it can be just as expensive to research as the next level of efficiëncy - something that would make that component smaller and thus easier to research ..
 
Sod the jump drive, most of our empire already has Jump Gate access yes? Lay down a 30k Beast of a Battleship, bristling with weapons and armour and be the envy of the galaxy. :nods:

Aye.
 
HMS Dreadnought herself was barely 20,000 tonnes, depending how you defined it. The Queen Elizabeths were only over 30,000 tonnes fully laden, and they're probably the pinnacle of WWI era battleships.
 
No interstellar empire is to be taken seriously unless it has massive Dreadnoughts roaming the space. :mad:
 
We would probably get more use out of a 30,000-ton ammunition tender...

In any case, I will likely wait until we have the new engine tech. Less than a year to go.
 
Capt. Kiwi said:
HMS Dreadnought herself was barely 20,000 tonnes, depending how you defined it. The Queen Elizabeths were only over 30,000 tonnes fully laden, and they're probably the pinnacle of WWI era battleships.
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So, we are essentially in the inter-stellar Victorian era of ship design right now (In terms of weight/displacement, anyways).
 
So in my game I found some ship components in the ruins and shipped them back to Earth for disassembly. I gained enough points to discover new tech (capacitor recharge 4 I think it was). I'm pretty sure that completion of the project via component disassembly deleted Earth. I have now lost a billion population and all my research centers, shipyards, and most of my mineral stockpile.
 
trajan said:
So in my game I found some ship components in the ruins and shipped them back to Earth for disassembly. I gained enough points to discover new tech (capacitor recharge 4 I think it was). I'm pretty sure that completion of the project via component disassembly deleted Earth. I have now lost a billion population and all my research centers, shipyards, and most of my mineral stockpile.
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A rare but known bug, which can be avoided by temporarily cancelling all your research projects before component disassembly, then setting them up again afterwards.

Can you fix it in Space-Master mode?
 
Yeah I found it buried in the 5.42 bug thread after I posted. I have a backup and I'll have to replay about a year of game time. But next time I disassemble I'll back up first and cancel all my projects.
 
"Sir, it seems we have discovered a usefull application from this piece of alien tech you sent us"
"Excellent, now lets put it to some use"
...
"Sit, it seems the new application has transported our whole planet out into the 12th dimension"
"Bugger"
 
The_Shepherd said:
So, we are essentially in the inter-stellar Victorian era of ship design right now (In terms of weight/displacement, anyways).
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Edwardian, probably.

trajan said:
So in my game I found some ship components in the ruins and shipped them back to Earth for disassembly. I gained enough points to discover new tech (capacitor recharge 4 I think it was). I'm pretty sure that completion of the project via component disassembly deleted Earth. I have now lost a billion population and all my research centers, shipyards, and most of my mineral stockpile.
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It looks like the aliens from Independence Day decided to plant a virus of their own as payback :eek:
 
Capt. Kiwi said:
It looks like the aliens from Independence Day decided to plant a virus of their own as payback :eek:
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As long as they didn't use a Mac and upload it from a floppy.
 
trajan said:
As long as they didn't use a Mac and upload it from a floppy.
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Two new Destroyer Escorts have been launched, with several more on the way.

Captain Stukenschmidt is assigned to the Star-III class Destroyer Escort ESN Arcturus.

Captain PB-DK is assigned to the Star-III class Destroyer Escort ESN Sadal Suud.

EDIT:

Our first non-Jump Battlecruiser has been launched... the ESN Audie Murphy

Hero II NJ class Battlecruiser 20,000 tons 2242 Crew 5946.9 BP TCS 400 TH 1046.5 EM 540
7475 km/s Armour 8-65 Shields 18-225 Sensors 1/28/0/0 Damage Control Rating 26 PPV 102
Annual Failure Rate: 123% IFR: 1.7% Maint Capacity 4832 MSP Max Repair 540 MSP Est Time: 3.32 Years
Magazine 728

Internal Confinement Fusion Drive E7.8 (26) Power 115 Fuel Use 78% Signature 40.25 Armour 0 Exp 12%
Fuel Capacity 1,125,000 Litres Range 129.8 billion km (200 days at full power)
Epsilon R225/18 Shields (6) Total Fuel Cost 108 Litres per day

CIWS-250 (1x6) Range 1000 km TS: 25000 km/s ROF 5 Base 50% To Hit
Size 1 Missile Launcher (6) Missile Size 1 Rate of Fire 10
Size 6 2055 Missile Launcher (16) Missile Size 6 Rate of Fire 40
Missile Fire Control 2055 FC136-R100 (50%) (2) Range 136.1m km Resolution 100
Missile AFTR Fire Control 2053 FC105-R4 (50%) (2) Range 105.8m km Resolution 4
Size 6-G 2053 ASM (107) Speed: 44,700 km/s End: 22.5m Range: 60.3m km WH: 9 Size: 6 TH: 313 / 187 / 93
Size 1-G 2053 AAM (86) Speed: 66,500 km/s End: 2.2m Range: 9m km WH: 1 Size: 1 TH: 487 / 292 / 146

Active anti-FTR Search Sensor 2053 MR100-R4 (50%) (1) GPS 1440 Range 100.8m km Resolution 4
EM Detection Sensor EM2-28 (1) Sensitivity 28 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 28m km

Missile to hit chances are vs targets moving at 3000 km/s, 5000 km/s and 10,000 km/s

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes
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Sixteen size-6 missile launchers, with magazine stowage for over 100 rounds of ammo and both anti-ship and anti-FTR fire controls. Eight layers of armor, eighteen points of shields and a CIWS.

So... who (among our missile warship Captains) wants it?

EDIT:

Our second non-Jump Battlecruiser, the ESN Parmenio, has been launched.
 
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I'd happily take a non-jump battlecruiser, but I think I'm currently down the ladder in a light cruiser.
 
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