Honor Harrington Mod Discussion

[RWittman]

I thought that the real limiting factor on acceleration was the inertial compensator. I'm thinking that most warships could push a much higher gee level, but the inertial compensator can only produce so much "compensation" else the crew turns to goo.

I remember that as nodes were damaged in combat, the ships speed would be reduced. I belive that you could lose a few nodes with no loss of acceleration, but after that it would have an impact.

[Phoenix-D]

Right, but try modeling that in SE4.. I haven't come up with a way yet. SE4 doesn't do acceleration, and the IC allows fast acceleration.

Phoenix-D

[Phoenix-D]

OK, it's going.. I have the propulsion system set up, and I'm working on getting the armor and sidewalls right.

The hardest part is the scale; I've already bumped the size of the smaller ships up a bit, but creating components to go in ships that range from 80 kt to 8000 kt is a pain!

Phoenix-D

[Phoenix-D]

Sidewalls are still being a pain in the butt.

Question: what's the amount of time you'd consider reasonable to make a high-tech SD? Right now I've got SDs that take upwards of half a decade to build (when filled with standard SE4 tech and my Impeller system)

Phoenix-D

[RWittman]

I think it should be more like 2-3 years. The space yards in HH are much larger then in SEIV, can the limit of one per planet be changed or maybe just the total amount of resources built per turn be raised.

[Phoenix-D]

Can be done. Aren't most of the major yards off-planet? So the faster yards will probably be space station based.

Phoenix-D

[dumbluck]

It can be done. SJ did it for P&N. Basically, you build something called a "Space Yard Extension" or some such. Then you UPGRADE the extension into a full shipyard. You need to talk to SJ for the details, though.