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[MarcAFK]

That's the way I prefer to do it.

[Flying Dice]

I admit, the satisfaction of a well-oiled carrier group is hard to beat as far as natural highs go.

[Eagle_eye]

So this is my current beam ship design:

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Vanguard class Frigate    9,000 tons     253 Crew     1790.8 BP      TCS 180  TH 1250  EM 360
6944 km/s    JR 3-50     Armour 3-38     Shields 12-480     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 6     PPV 16
Maint Life 3.27 Years     MSP 1746    AFR 108%    IFR 1.5%    1YR 247    5YR 3705    Max Repair 625 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months    Spare Berths 0   

J9000(3-50) Military Jump Drive     Max Ship Size 9000 tons    Distance 50k km     Squadron Size 3
Banks-Roberts 1250 EP Magnetic Fusion Drive (1)    Power 1250    Fuel Use 35%    Signature 1250    Exp 10%
Fuel Capacity 1,000,000 Litres    Range 57.1 billion km   (95 days at full power)
Dawson Syndicate Theta R480/672 Shields (3)   Total Fuel Cost  84 Litres per hour  (2,016 per day)

Freeman Orbital Systems Particle Beam-6 (2)    Range 320,000km     TS: 6944 km/s     Power 15-5    ROF 15        6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
CIWS-120 (1x6)    Range 1000 km     TS: 12000 km/s     ROF 5       Base 50% To Hit
Owens Electronic Systems Fire Control S06 160-9000 (1)    Max Range: 320,000 km   TS: 9000 km/s     97 94 91 88 84 81 78 75 72 69
Magnetic Confinement Fusion Reactor Technology PB-1 (10)     Total Power Output 10    Armour 0    Exp 5%

Active Search Sensor MR30-R40 (1)     GPS 3200     Range 30.4m km    Resolution 40
Active Search Sensor MR0-R1 (1)     GPS 16     Range 960k km    MCR 105k km    Resolution 1

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes

I'm a little concerned about the fuel supply, but I'm not going to be using it as part of any invasion fleets, so I don't think that'll be a problem. Aside from that, any obvious mistakes I should address?

[MarcAFK]

That's nothing, I'm still on ION with 100% multiplier, a single invasion and my fuel reserve is toast.
In fact fleet training should destroy my reserves anyway.\
While I'm here update:
The RNG gods are pricks, before my Daleks even design a jump engine they detect a ship from 'sol aliens #334', jumping in I can assume directly from Earth, there goes my plan to explore and conquer a significant number of inconsequential NPR's before finding earth and destroying them in force.
I may just delete sol and remake the human NPR.

[Duuvian]

After foolishly investing into sorium harvesters, thinking that Saturn or Jupiter would have some deposits, my construction specialist just died in a freak accident  . I've also come to realize the importance of asteroids and their small but easy to access deposits. So basically when I have the tech to start designing asteroid miners (next year...), will it be worth the shipyard space to do so in the long term?

Asteroid miners can be very small commercial ships so it only takes one shipyard with no size increases to make them. I have one shipyard I keep adding slipways to and I make asteroid miners of 1 mining module, engines and fuel whenever I have the minerals to do it with. I also give them some years of extra deployment time because rp reasons I guess. It just doesn't make sense to me why the commercial crews are immune to that.

I do have one question though: would enabling conscripts only on asteroid miners be of limited use if you have a large officers pool? You can still assign a Captain with mining skill to conscripts only ships.

[Eagle_eye]

Well, it turns out those CIWS were woefully inadequate for dealing with 10+ missile salvos.

[JOKER_G]

Well, it turns out those CIWS were woefully inadequate for dealing with 10+ missile salvos.

Just use standard Gauss Cannon, they are slightly heavier but protect the whole fleet.

[Karlito]

Maint Life 3.27 Years
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months

One of these things is not like the other... If this ship is really only intended to sortie in defensive actions, or whatever, you could probably survive with a maintenance life of only a year or so. The clock won't tick up if they're in orbit around a planet with sufficient maintenance facilities.

[JOKER_G]

Encontered enemy High-Power torpedo. A lucky D39 torpedo crippled GTD Orion, several others vaporized a Leviathan class.

It's a bit annoying that even my AMM can intercept all incoming missiles, it cost so many 5-sec turns and too much real time. Carriers and bombers are much better.

Finally, the Battle of Earth ended. With 2/3 of their second fleet lost, the NPR fleet retreated. I lost 1/2 of my fleet and many civillian ships, earth also hit by several missiles.

I named my warship and fighter classes with the names in Freespace2, a great old space piloting and shooting game, and the name of my empire is GTA. Now the Great War and shivans are coming soon.

[Flying Dice]

I do have one question though: would enabling conscripts only on asteroid miners be of limited use if you have a large officers pool? You can still assign a Captain with mining skill to conscripts only ships.

Conscript crews exist for one reason: to avoid eating up your pool of trained crew on commercial ships. Always use it for things that aren't supposed to see combat unless you've got something like a dozen academies set to the lowest level of training quality and no foreseeable construction of a large naval force.

[Dutchling]

This game has crew management?

How did have I never hear of this before... How does it even work?

[Shooer]

You can set your races crew training level (1-5) on the race info screen (crtl-f2).  The higher the better your crew members will be, but the slower they will be trained.  I like to set it to 3, with 5 academies it covers my needs usually.  The bonus from the higher training level is the same as experience earned in combat.  Which is kind of hard to get in significant quantities easily.

Crew training is represented in a % value under grade bonus.  Accuracy, rate of recovery from jump scrambling and a few other things get benefited from grade bonus.

When designing ships you can check the conscript box.  When ships of that class get made they get filled with -10% crew.  No reason putting your military academy trained elite ship crew on a asteroid miner, or hauler, or geo surveyor, or tanker.

I personally don't see them as conscripted military members, but civilian crew on a civilian run but government owned ship.

[Zangi]

That's nothing, I'm still on ION with 100% multiplier, a single invasion and my fuel reserve is toast.
In fact fleet training should destroy my reserves anyway.\

You can set the fleet's max speed to 1 while training.  I forgot how, but you can.  (Maybe creating a 1 speed ship and leaving it with the training fleet.)

[JOKER_G]

Trying to land minefield at jumpgate, but as soon as I launch mine at waypoint they released sub-muntion. the "msl launch" button caused a series of error like "X cannot be fired as the ship is suffering from X".

[Girlinhat]

I personally don't see them as conscripted military members, but civilian crew on a civilian run but government owned ship.

Historically, that's pretty much what a conscript has been.  The lord is waging a war, so "We'll give you some padded armor and a spear, you'll eat free and be housed in the barracks.  You'll do grunt work and we're really only paying you for the use of another set of hands."

That's basically what it is in Aurora.  "We just need warm bodies on these asteroid miners, anyone will do."