09-22-2020, 05:21 PM | #11 | |
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Re: [Spaceships] Questions for Open Space
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I doubt that the intention is that a farm should be both producing lots of food and have space for 100 people to hang out.
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09-22-2020, 05:43 PM | #12 | |
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09-22-2020, 05:57 PM | #13 |
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Re: [Spaceships] Questions for Open Space
What bothers me about Open Space is it doesn't use the same scaling (1 ,2 ,5 10...) as cabin capacity (1, 3, 10...) which likely means there's some unspoken assumption about open space, like massive empty vertical space instead of (for instance) stacked parks or greenhouses.
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09-22-2020, 06:11 PM | #14 | |
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For SM+8 ships 1 Open Space Area is equivalent to 6 Habitat Cabins, but for SM+13 ships 1 Open Space Area is equivalent to 40 Habitat Cabins. It seems that Open Space Area is rated only by floor area, as you said. Why the Open Space Areas are not stacked vertically like other systems do? Last edited by Pectus Solentis; 09-22-2020 at 06:23 PM. |
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09-22-2020, 06:20 PM | #15 |
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It’s scaled with surface area. I assume this is a kludge to account for the fact that Spaceships ignores volume but assumes a general size of spacecraft — more than one or two open spaces would realistically start increasing the spacecraft’s size and therefore area, reducing dDR and increasing true SM. Better to just let them scale more slowly and fudge the extra mass into the granularity of the system.
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09-22-2020, 06:35 PM | #16 | |
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1 SM +15 Open Space: 200 areas for $20M OR 2,187 SM+8 Open Spaces in the same SM +15 system slot for 2,187 areas for $218.7M Maybe the solution is to add a more expensive and Workspace heavy "Efficient Open Space" system as an option.
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09-22-2020, 06:45 PM | #17 | |
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09-22-2020, 06:52 PM | #18 | |
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With the hypothetical Efficient Open Space system, I'd start with the SM +8 Open Space system then just follow the 1, 3, 10 progression for Areas, techs and cost.
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09-22-2020, 07:03 PM | #19 | |
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09-23-2020, 02:53 AM | #20 |
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And part of the trick, I think, is that like a shopping mall or a medical bay they don't all necessarily need to use it at once - but they want to know it's available.
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