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[Karlito]

So, you've designed a carrier that has the fuel to fly around for 6 years, crew space that people can live in it comfortably for ten, but that will explode due to maintenance failure 18 days after it more leaves orbit? Add engineering spaces, consider removing some crew quarters and fuel capacity.

Is this carrier supposed to operate independently or as part of a larger task force? At the moment it has absolutely no way to defend itself against incoming missiles, no way to traverse jump points (or maybe you're playing with jumpgates on everything), and pretty poor sensors.

As for the fighter, I'll spare the lecture on the infeasibility of a fighter armed with anything other than missiles, and focus on the obvious bits: The capacitor on the railgun is larger than the power the weapon requires, this makes the railgun more expensive without actually providing any benefit. The reactor is twice as large as it needs to be to provide the power for the weapons. The tracking speed on the firecontrol is less than a third of the tracking speed of the railgun itself. The intended deployment time doesn't need to be longer than 16 hours. The fighter doesn't have an active sensor, so presumably you intended the carrier to do the targeting. This isn't about the fighter, but really, that carrier needs some defenses. 16m km is a short range missile.

[Gamerlord]

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FUCK!!!

EDIT: Here we go:

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Shelob Mark 1 class Fighter Transport    25,000 tons     339 Crew     2440 BP      TCS 500  TH 1200  EM 0
2400 km/s     Armour 4-76     Shields 0-0     Sensors 16/16/0/0     Damage Control Rating 20     PPV 0
Maint Life 6.61 Years     MSP 1220    AFR 250%    IFR 3.5%    1YR 48    5YR 724    Max Repair 20 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 120 months    Flight Crew Berths 96   
Hangar Deck Capacity 10000 tons     Cryogenic Berths 200   

80 EP Magneto-plasma Drive (15)    Power 80    Fuel Use 7.96%    Signature 80    Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 2,000,000 Litres    Range 180.9 billion km   (872 days at full power)

Active Search Sensor MR14-R100 (1)     GPS 1800     Range 14.4m km    Resolution 100
Thermal Sensor TH2-16 (1)     Sensitivity 16     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  16m km
EM Detection Sensor EM2-16 (1)     Sensitivity 16     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  16m km

Strike Group
20x Nardrol Mark 1 Attack Craft   Speed: 19200 km/s    Size: 10

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes

[Gamerlord]

Larger taskforce. But at the moment it just needs to protect the home system. My fighters are more versatile, so I thinkk that design is going to be used for a long time.

[Karlito]

"Protect the home system." So it's going to sit around above a large colony with maintenance facilities most of it's lifetime? If that's the case, it probably doesn't need more than a year of intended deployment time. Its not necessary to have that many crewquarters, and you went way overboard with the engineering spaces.

And 4 armor layers is still way too low for a ship that size.

[Gamerlord]

No, just until I get into other systems. It's just a prelim design. I'll be designing a Mark 2 as soon as I get decent CIWS.

[Karlito]

Why have the carrier at all, then? Just build a PDC with hangar space.

[Gamerlord]

I don't like the idea of my carriers being motionless. It's just a personal preference.

[Girlinhat]

PDC are a lot cheaper and incur no maintenance.  They're extremely convenient for system defense.

If your ship is sitting over a colony and it's going to play local defense, then a year is all you really need.  Plan your maintenance life, crew berths, and fuel accordingly.  Also remember that fighters with less than 15 days of intended deployment will use the carrier's crew berths - yours have 3 months of deployment, so they'll use 3 months.

[Metalax]

Also note that if you use a deployment time of 0.5 months or less for your fighters their crew requirements are halved, so less space is required for crew quarters. If you reduce the deployment time down to 0.1 months then the crew requirements are reduced to 1/3rd.

Also Girlinhat where are you getting that parasite ships have to have 0.5 months or less deployment time in order to use flight crew berths? If it is from a post by Steve can you link to it as I must have missed it. As far as I can tell from what I've seen in game, and from the mechanics posts Steve made when the changes were being made, ships of any size and deployment length will use the flight crew berths if there are sufficient number of them for the crew of the parasite.

Another note for carriers. When you want to add crew quarters to the carrier to create flight berths for the crew of your fighters to use, you need to make sure the "keep excess CQ" is selected in the upper right, otherwise you are unable to add them.

[Girlinhat]

I can't quote where I read it, but I'm just about positive that I did.

[Metalax]

Can't find anything to suggest that it is the case on the aurora forum, indeed Steve uses the example of a fighter with a 6 month deployment time in his original mechanics post about the new crew system.

The only time that the figure of 0.5 months deployment comes up as far as I can tell, is the reduction in crew numbers if a ship has at or below that intended deployment time.

[Girlinhat]

Well I've been known to be wrong before.  I was probably messing up the "lowered crew" deal there.

[bluejello]

so, I am going to try playing this game.  have 6.1 installed, just looking for some tips/recommendations that you guys can provide me.  Went through the tutorials on the wiki, as much as you can call them tutorials I guess, but have yet to continue a game past the first year...
AND the officer assignment window button is now showing up in reduced window height, and I can't get the bottom buttons in normal view...

[USEC_OFFICER]

so, I am going to try playing this game.  have 6.1 installed, just looking for some tips/recommendations that you guys can provide me.  Went through the tutorials on the wiki, as much as you can call them tutorials I guess, but have yet to continue a game past the first year...

Why not? What problems are you running into?

[bluejello]

mostly the start is a bit to slow, and I end up leaving the game and doing other stuff.

EDIT: Switching back to 5.6 due to bug in the latest version in reduced window size, check my prior post.