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[Paul]

Not sure if any of you would be interested, but this game is a really complex open source MMO RTS that's quite a lot like Aurora. I've been having fun with it, but it wouldn't hurt to have more players (been getting a good many people joining apparently, but quite a few don't stick around due to the complexity of it).

You have to design all your parts, manufacture them, and put them together in a ship design just like Aurora. You even design all your buildings to build on the planet, and space stations, and even alloys to make the stuff from using various minerals.

Not a game for everyone, but I bet Aurora players would like it

[RedKing]

Give me a design for raiding civilian shipping lines. Go go go! 

[forsaken1111]

Give me a design for raiding civilian shipping lines. Go go go! 

100 engines, 10 fuel tanks, tractor beam

[RedKing]

Give me a design for raiding civilian shipping lines. Go go go! 

100 engines, 10 fuel tanks, tractor beam

Hmm...guess I was thinking more of "fast, plasma cannonades, salvage module".

[forsaken1111]

But if you tractor them back you get to take them apart!

[RedKing]

Wonder how it would fare against anti-pirate frigates though. 100 engines should make it crazy fast enough to avoid them, but also seems highly inefficient. I was thinking something small and fast (under 10,000 tons)

[forsaken1111]

Wonder how it would fare against anti-pirate frigates though. 100 engines should make it crazy fast enough to avoid them, but also seems highly inefficient. I was thinking something small and fast (under 10,000 tons)

Doesn't have to run at 100% speed all the time, just when it's towing a massive freighter. 100 was just an off-the-cuff number, I'm sure beyond a certain point you get diminishing returns on engine power that wouldn't warrant more engines. Still if you want a quick raider boat, go with plasma cannonade, microwave emitter optional to fry sensors, low thermal engines and cloaking. You could pop in and fry the freighter's sensors (if any) then blast it apart. The problem with your approach is that a salvager + cargo hold is going to take up a lot of tonnage. a LOT.

[LoSboccacc]

I've never used microwave, how good are them?

[forsaken1111]

They're good at frying electronics! If the ship doesn't have shields the damage goes straight to electronics and it really doesn't take much to blind them. Shields will absorb microwave emitters though iirc, but at the cost of shield power. Been a bit since I tried it out.

[SirAaronIII]

They do triple damage against shields, I believe.
Also stack on the ECM for the raider ship. ECM is good fun.

[Canalan]

I didn't know raiding shipping was a thing.  Hmm, would this do?

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Arizona class Battleship    30,000 tons     3215 Crew     6797.6 BP      TCS 600  TH 460.8  EM 0
3200 km/s     Armour 10-86     Shields 0-0     Sensors 28/28/0/0     Damage Control Rating 54     PPV 180
Maint Life 9.2 Years     MSP 5815    AFR 211%    IFR 2.9%    1YR 124    5YR 1856    Max Repair 196 MSP
Flag Bridge    Magazine 1400   

GE Magneto-plasma Drive M5 (24)    Power 80    Fuel Use 50%    Signature 19.2    Armour 0    Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 1,200,000 Litres    Range 144.0 billion km   (520 days at full power)

Phalanx CIWS-200 (6x6)    Range 1000 km     TS: 20000 km/s     ROF 5       Base 50% To Hit
Size 9 Cruiser Missile Launcher (12)    Missile Size 9    Rate of Fire 55
Size 5 Multipurpose Missile Launcher (12)    Missile Size 5    Rate of Fire 30
Size 1 PD Missile Launcher (12)    Missile Size 1    Rate of Fire 10
Sidewinder Missile Fire Control FC52-R20 (4)     Range 52.6m km    Resolution 20
PD Missile Fire Control FC23-R1 (2)     Range 23.5m km    Resolution 1
Size 9 Anti-ship Missile (76)  Speed: 18,100 km/s   End: 47.9m    Range: 52.1m km   WH: 25    Size: 9    TH: 138 / 83 / 41
Size 5 Anti-ship Missile (120)  Speed: 19,700 km/s   End: 42.6m    Range: 50.3m km   WH: 16    Size: 5    TH: 105 / 63 / 31
Size 1 Anti-missile Missile (120)  Speed: 52,000 km/s   End: 5m    Range: 15.6m km   WH: 1    Size: 1    TH: 364 / 218 / 109

Active Search Sensor MR117-R100 (1)     GPS 8400     Range 117.6m km    Resolution 100
Missile Search Sensor MR15-R1 (1)     GPS 112     Range 15.7m km    Resolution 1
Thermal Sensor TH2-28 M (1)     Sensitivity 28     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  28m km
EM Detection Sensor EM2-28 M (1)     Sensitivity 28     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  28m km

ECM 20

Missile to hit chances are vs targets moving at 3000 km/s, 5000 km/s and 10,000 km/s

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes.
 

Takes more crew than my biggest PDC, which has three times the tonnage.

On an unrelated note, what are some fun real-world names that your commanders have generated with?  I currently have a John Kerry, a Joseph Smith, and a Christopher Nolan.

[Scout1]

Do PDCs armed with beams suffer an atmosphere reduction affect? Also, why can't PDCs equip shields? I want my nigh unkillable 90,000 ton forever regenerating PDC.

[Bremen]

Do PDCs armed with beams suffer an atmosphere reduction affect? Also, why can't PDCs equip shields? I want my nigh unkillable 90,000 ton forever regenerating PDC.

They do if the planet they're on has an atmosphere. Given sufficient tech you can build a huge beam PDC of death on the moon. Not sure about shields.

CIWS seem to be an exception to this rule, which makes some sense.

[Hanzoku]

I believe shields don't work when the planet has enough atmosphere to cause problems for beam weapons. they will work if you place your PDC on an airless asteroid or so.

[lavenders2]

For anyone on this forum who was actually following my tutorial videos and saw them stop, well they are back up and running.

I will edit this post once episode 5 is up!

EDIT: And it is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLbpu6FDIQ0&feature=youtu.be