07-28-2014, 11:54 AM | #41 | |
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Re: [Spaceships] Is This Legal?
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Oh, and in my first post I noted I was using chemical rockets, hence the rather low dV. It works out to 1.89 mps with the drop tank on, then another 1.08 on its own fuel, for a grand total of 2.97 mps - which isn't terribly far off from my initial 2.88 estimate. For the OP, if you want this drop tank to be recoverable, it will need a control station (not necessarily full-sized) and pilot or AI to run it and the winged feature. Another option would be a soft-landing system - and as the tank is only ~1/10th its initial mass you could get away with an -2 SM system for that part. |
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07-28-2014, 12:12 PM | #42 | |
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Empty fuel tanks are weightless for delta-V purposes, but acceleration treats them as if they're full. And they also continue to increase your SM, reducing the efficiency of armor, lowering your handling, and making you a bigger target. Drop tanks are less efficient for pure delta-V than just cramming your actual ship into a tiny clump of sub-sized systems and building toward that 1.0 fuel-to-mass ratio, but if you're picky about the performance of the vessel that you deliver at the other end they have some points in their favor.
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07-28-2014, 12:15 PM | #43 | ||
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07-28-2014, 12:52 PM | #44 | |
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Re: [Spaceships] Is This Legal?
Sure, but if you're going to massively houserule Spaceships, while I generally approve, I can't comment on the unspecified particulars of those houserules.
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Stages require you to discard your main engine with the lower stage. They also require the discarded portion to be at least twice the size of the non-discarded portion. There was dispute up-thread about the soundness of discarding a lower stage and having the lower stage continue to fly around and eventually land itself. (And if it was allowable at all, question about what the requirements were.) I was against it.
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07-28-2014, 03:18 PM | #45 |
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Re: [Spaceships] Is This Legal?
Does it really matter if the "campaign" description perfectly matches how it's created in the Spaceships' system?
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07-30-2014, 05:38 PM | #46 |
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Re: [Spaceships] Is This Legal?
Finally submitted that erratum BTW.
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