10-27-2010, 01:24 PM | #1 | |
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[Spaceships] Force Screen (Energy Variant) vs. Radiation?
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10-27-2010, 01:30 PM | #2 | |
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Re: [Spaceships] Force Screen (Energy Variant) vs. Radiation?
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If subjected to a "burn ex rad" the radiation received is based off of the final damage taken and you get your radiation protection that way.
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10-31-2010, 12:01 PM | #3 | |
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Re: [Spaceships] Force Screen (Energy Variant) vs. Radiation?
So each dDR provides a PF of 10? That begs the question, just how strong is a "drive field"?
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11-02-2010, 01:01 AM | #4 |
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Re: [Spaceships] Force Screen (Energy Variant) vs. Radiation?
It probably depends on the specific handwave but sure that gives a reasonable range and seems to do what you want. Although you might want to multiply it by the absolute value of log(thrust) or some other function so that you don't have Subwarp fields that are 5000 times stronger than rotary drive fields.
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11-02-2010, 11:51 AM | #5 |
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Re: [Spaceships] Force Screen (Energy Variant) vs. Radiation?
[QUOTE=DaltonS;1071007]So each dDR provides a PF of 10? That begs the question, just how strong is a "drive field"?/QUOTE]
The answer to the first question is "yes". The answer to the second question is probably "GM's call". To my understanding, Spaceships was not intended to be comprehensive technological supplement. It's a quick and dirty 5% margin of error generator of basic stats plus combat system. People seem to keep trying to squeeze more detail out of it than it was ever intended to deliver.
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Another question about Cosmic Rays... Quote:
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11-03-2010, 01:30 PM | #9 | |
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Besides the distance thing these amgnetic fields aren't very intense. They do better against low energy solar flare particles but it's the miles and miles of atmosphere that provide most of the protection from cosmic rays. Add this up and it means that the subject is basically irrelevant to Spaceships force fields. Comparing things that Spacehips is meant to handle like particle beams even these get a (5) armor divisor and individual particle energy in beams is assumed to be much lower than the cosmic ray ranges. Still, I can't tell you how many dice of damage a single cosmic ray is meant to do. Probably zero. If you treat each ray particle as an individual attack probably nothing gets through. The real answer though is that Spaceships isn't meant to address these questions.
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