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[revo]

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Enterprise class Cruiser    9,950 tons     1006 Crew     1883.4 BP      TCS 199  TH 1040  EM 0
5226 km/s     Armour 5-41     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 19     PPV 62.91
Maint Life 4.5 Years     MSP 1065    AFR 87%    IFR 1.2%    1YR 85    5YR 1277    Max Repair 254 MSP

Magneto-plasma Drive E6 (13)    Power 80    Fuel Use 60%    Signature 80    Armour 0    Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 250,000 Litres    Range 75.4 billion km   (166 days at full power)

Triple 12cm C4 PD FUV Turret (1x3)    Range 200,000km     TS: 20000 km/s     Power 12-12     RM 5    ROF 5        4 4 4 4 4 3 2 2 2 2
20cm C4 Far Ultraviolet Laser (5)    Range 256,000km     TS: 5226 km/s     Power 10-4     RM 5    ROF 15        10 10 10 10 10 8 7 6 5 5
Fire Control S16 128-12000 (1)    Max Range: 256,000 km   TS: 12000 km/s     96 92 88 84 80 77 73 69 65 61
Stellarator Fusion Reactor Technology PB-1 (6)     Total Power Output 36    Armour 0    Exp 5%

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes

My Enterprise class cruiser on. Since it is a laser ship should i sacrifice armor for speed and go to like 3 armor? My fire control Tech isn't quite up to snuff that's why my FC is so bad.

edit: correction

[Metalax]

I'll typically start using shields on my military designs from alpha shields. Usually 5% of the tonnage on shields and 10% on armour. This means that as new shield tech comes in I can just refit the shields without needing to mess around trying to make space in the design. On early ships they are not going to do more than blunt the impact of an occasional leaker through your PD, but if they reduce the damage below one of the square thresholds 4, 9, 16, etc then that is one layer shallower damage to your armour.

The point at which shields start becoming actually combat effective is usually delta shields verses occasional leakers. At this point they can usually block a few anti ship missile impacts completely, though they will still get hammered down easily by beam ships.

[Metalax]

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Enterprise class Cruiser    9,950 tons     1006 Crew     1883.4 BP      TCS 199  TH 1040  EM 0
5226 km/s     Armour 5-41     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 19     PPV 62.91
Maint Life 4.5 Years     MSP 1065    AFR 87%    IFR 1.2%    1YR 85    5YR 1277    Max Repair 254 MSP

Magneto-plasma Drive E6 (13)    Power 80    Fuel Use 60%    Signature 80    Armour 0    Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 250,000 Litres    Range 75.4 billion km   (166 days at full power)

Triple 12cm C4 PD FUV Turret (1x3)    Range 200,000km     TS: 20000 km/s     Power 12-12     RM 5    ROF 5        4 4 4 4 4 3 2 2 2 2
20cm C4 Far Ultraviolet Laser (5)    Range 256,000km     TS: 5226 km/s     Power 10-4     RM 5    ROF 15        10 10 10 10 10 8 7 6 5 5
Fire Control S16 128-12000 (1)    Max Range: 256,000 km   TS: 12000 km/s     96 92 88 84 80 77 73 69 65 61
Stellarator Fusion Reactor Technology PB-1 (6)     Total Power Output 36    Armour 0    Exp 5%

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes

My Enterprise class cruiser on. Since it is a laser ship should i sacrifice armor for speed and go to like 3 armor? My fire control Tech isn't quite up to snuff that's why my FC is so bad.

edit: correction

I'm assuming actives are on a dedicated sensor ship yes?

I'd actually scrap that firecontrol and replace it with two seperate firecontrols. One with 4x range 2x tracking for your main lasers, and a 2x range 4x tracking speed one for your PD turret. At 200,000 km range your PD are only going to get one shot off against most missiles you encounter so there is no need to max out your PD FC range, and you will want to set your PD to final defensive fire.

Also by splitting your firecontrol you only need to refit the PD sensor when you research increased tracking speed as the main gun firecontrol would still be perfectly sufficient.

As for stripping armour to increase speed I'd be hesitant to do so. 5 armour layers is what I'd consider the absolute minimum for a beam ship.

[revo]

I think I'm actually going to put my actives on a destroyer leader that is dedicated sensor and PD with as much armor i can fit on after those 2

[Flying Dice]

Yeah, 5 armor is on the low end. I agree that Delta shields is approximately the point where they start being useful. As always, standard shields are only really useful if you've got time to prepare before an engagement (unlike a certain other variant, which admittedly has its own shortcomings).

[Metalax]

Of course as long as you don't mind being a blazing spot to any EM sensors, you can just leave the shields up constantly. The fuel drain is small enough even with continual operation, that I'll usually lose perhaps 8 days off of a 370 day fuel supply. Or alternatively have decent enough active sensors to pick up any contacts 5 minutes out.

The time this doesn't apply is when you are making a jump point assault, as you shields get set to zero when you jump and have to regenerate.

[revo]

so I checked the jump gates on every jump point box and it seems to have taken away my ability to my grav sensors. do i need them? or how will i find the jump points if i don't?

[Flying Dice]

Uh. You sure you didn't just start without grav sensors (and the prerequisite tech) not yet researched?

[revo]

that. I started with geo sensors so i thought grav would be automatically given too. what's the prereqs to gravs?

[Metalax]

Grav sensors can be researched after you research jump point theory.

[Jacob/Lee]

What do commercial spaceports do? I built a bunch and now I have a level 4 spaceport on Earth.

[Karlito]

They act like cargo handling modules. Reduce the loading/unloading times for colony ships, troop transports, and freighters.

[Flying Dice]

They're concentrated awesome. If I'm recalling correctly, the first level reduces load/unload times by 50%, the second by 33%, the third by 25% (each of the current rate, not base rate), and so on.

[Girlinhat]

I think they act as a Cargo Handling System, so they reduce the load time based on the amount being loaded.  I don't mess with them much though, especially now as civilian crews want shore leave, the time spent loading cargo counts towards shore so they regain morale while picking up goods.

[PTTG??]

It'd make sense if commercial space ports also increase the efficiency of R&R.

Also, doesn't a planet need a commercial port to have civilian trade visit it?