mQNP

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Originally posted by Krsqk:
Of course, you could always just change the tonnage used percentage in an unproportional way. A 500kt engine knocked down to 2% for a frigate and 5% for a light cruiser would result in 60/200=3/10 used for frigates and 150/400=3/8 used for light cruisers (proportional increase would be 2% and 4%).

Well you COULD, but that's a bit contrary to the basic premise of QNP (and by extension, mQNP). The basic premise of QNP as I understand it is, you should need a given amount of thrust, per kT of ship, to move at X speed.

Standard QNP calculates this per ship hull by setting an engine-thrust:ship-mass ratio -- adjusting the EPM of that hull, so that you need more and more of the same engine components to achieve a given speed, as hulls get larger.

mQNP does this instead, by setting an engine-mass:ship-mass ratio -- adjusting the size / mass of the engine, to fit the needs of each hull size.

A hybrid system tries to balance between the two approaches; I'm not, personally, entirely satisfied with such an idea, but other mod writers may disagree.