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Old March 23rd, 2005, 01:15 PM
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Default Re: Propulsion problems: help???

Perhaps you just need to Sanity check your ship sizes.

10kt vs 16000kt?
You're going to have a LOT of sizes that nobody will ever use, cluttering up your ship list.

The real question in my mind is why anybody would use a ship between 10 and 100 kt, when the mod includes unfathomably large ships.
Those sizes are usually reserved for fighters in the stock game, and you've scaled things up 10 times more than that.

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The standard and mount QNP systems only work within a range of 10x to 100x size difference between the largest and smallest hulls just due to the rounding of integers.

You could extend the range a bit more with a hybrid QNP system.
Have the smallest 10x range (10kt to 100kt) use 1% size engine mounts with engines-per-move between 1 and 10. Then have the next 10x range (100kt to 1000kt) use 10% mounts with EPM between 1 and 10 again.
The top level of ship (1000kt-10Mt and up) would use 100% engine mounts with EMP again from 1 to 10, and possibly more if your ships are slow moving.
That would give you 1000x to 4000x difference between biggest and smallest depending on how far you push the EMP on the largest one.
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Default Re: Propulsion problems: help???

Thanks guys. I never thought about using the mounts to DECREASE the size of a component. There are 16 main hull sizes(aside from colony ships etc.). Their hull sizes progress by the fibonachi sequence(10, 20, 30, 50, 80, etc.). As for how those ship sizes are used, leave tht to me.
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Old March 23rd, 2005, 03:13 PM
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Default Re: Propulsion problems: help???

Going for a natural mod? Why did you use the fibbonachi sequence?
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Old March 23rd, 2005, 04:32 PM

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Well originally it was just because I like the sequence, don't know why. But if you want a rationalization, how about this: technology builds on previous accomplishments, so does the fibbonachi sequence? Anyway, It always disturbed me that the smallest ship size availible to an empire wheighed 150000 tons. Now the smallest one avaiible is 10000 tons. Is this better? I'll find out soon I guess.
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Old March 23rd, 2005, 05:51 PM
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Default Re: Propulsion problems: help???

Don't even bother to try and map SE units to real life units.

Everything is measured in Kt, just because
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Not to mention that it seems to be a measure of volume, not weight. (which raises the question of how a 20kt cargo bay module can hold 150kt of stuff...)
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It is nothing. It is just an arbitrary scale. kT does not mean volume, mass, weight, etc.
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