06-22-2013, 08:21 PM | #21 | |
Join Date: May 2008
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Re: Spaceships, Floor / Deck Plans, Volume and Hexes
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06-22-2013, 09:11 PM | #22 |
Join Date: Jun 2013
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Re: Spaceships, Floor / Deck Plans, Volume and Hexes
It's also used for targeting the vessel, and decreases when you target a SL ship from the front or from behind, meaning it's also (in a highly-abstract way) measuring the vessel's dimensions. I was hoping to be able to use this to calculate a vessel's volume. Clearly, I was wrong.
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06-22-2013, 11:25 PM | #23 |
Join Date: Mar 2013
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Re: Spaceships, Floor / Deck Plans, Volume and Hexes
I would start with the mass, and give an estimate of how dense each type of component will be. Cargo holds the least, habitats next, etc.
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06-23-2013, 03:27 AM | #24 |
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Re: Spaceships, Floor / Deck Plans, Volume and Hexes
I had the opportunity to visit a Russian sub in San Diego. And holy moly, but it was a claustrophobic experience. The crew was almost hundred, altogether, hot-bunking in small bunk beds, slotted into the walls with three beds stacked together, the lowest almost on the floor. I think there was only two toilets, too. Cramped corridors, bulkheads with circular openings just barely big enough for me to duck through without needing to try and slide through head first. So yeah, for very limited-space configuration warship, I could easily see three bunks in 2 m2, and those bunks hot-bunked (shared by 2 or even 3 crew-members, so that there is always someone sleeping there). So you could fit 6 - 9 people in 2 m2, and given that the ceiling wasn't too high either, it comes to less than 1 m3 per person. Add the narrow corridor in the middle and you are still well below 1.5 m3 per person.
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06-23-2013, 03:34 AM | #25 | |
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