04-29-2018, 05:51 AM | #31 |
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Re: [Spaceships] Paying more for better system?
Your ship designs are missing their 2 core sections and middle and rear hulls.
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04-29-2018, 06:53 AM | #32 |
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Re: [Spaceships] Paying more for better system?
I'll add one of my house rule options: Compact Systems. Sometimes 20 "slots" just isn't enough for some concepts, or you're willing to pay for more features. Cost is a Spaceships-friendly extrapolation of the Compact option for computers (UT23) and the Expensive option for equipment (UT15):
Miniaturization and engineering advances can allow systems to occupy smaller spaces without reducing their capabilities. A Compact system occupies a smaller system slot (see Smaller Systems, GURPS Spaceships 7: Divergent and Paranormal Tech, pp. 4-5), but provides the same benefit as a standard-sized system. The GM decides which Compact systems are available in the setting. Compact systems become available one TL after the standard system becomes available (e.g., Force Screens are TL11, so Compact Force Screens are TL12). If a system’s statistics vary with TL, a Compact system uses the statistics of a system one TL behind (e.g., a TL11 Compact Standard Reactionless Engine provides only the 0.5G acceleration of a TL10 Standard Reactionless Engine). A Compact high-energy system has the power point requirements of a standard high-energy system. A Compact system has the workspaces of a smaller system. Despite being one SM smaller than usual, a Compact system costs three times as much as a standard system (i.e., a Compact system in an SM+7 slot provides the capabilities of an SM+8 system and costs three times as much as an SM+8 system). Some systems require special treatment: Control Room or Sapient Brain: A spacecraft with a Compact Control Room or Compact Sapient Brain has no penalty to its Handling or Stability Rating (or DX for a Sapient Brain). A Compact Control Room has the control stations of a smaller system. Power Plants: A Compact Power Plant system provides power points which can power a standard-sized system, a compact system, or three smaller systems. ST-Based Systems: Compact systems whose capabilities are based on the spacecraft’s ST – such as Maw, Robot Arm, and Tail systems – use the spacecraft’s standard ST. Banned Systems: Armor, Reaction Engines, and systems with mass or occupant capacities – including Cargo Hold, Digestive System, Engine Room, Fuel Tank, Habitat, Hangar Bay, Jump Gate, Open Space, and Passenger Seating systems – can be Smaller but cannot be Compact. The GM might allow systems with mass rate capacities, such as Mining, Factory, and Refinery systems, to be Compact. A Compact Comm/Sensor Array determines its array level as if it were one TL less, which provides no benefit over simply using a cheaper Smaller system. |
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So for an SM +5 ship with a compact computer, apply the normal CF mods to a SM +6 control room. Quote:
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04-30-2018, 08:54 PM | #34 |
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Re: [Spaceships] Paying more for better system?
As I'm looking at options, I see one very useful, and, IMVHO, important and realistic modification.
Each turret has a specific amount that you get back if you put, for example, only 3 tertiary guns in place. That's the weight of the weapon emplacement. Well, even BIG ships will use small guns; the Iowa class battleships used the same 20 mm Oikerlons for point defense that destroyers did. I think that a section could be equipped with MUCH smaller weapons than the size class of the ship supports in the rules, with the rest cargo, or reaction mass, or whatever. Thus, a SM +15 ship could still have LOTS of guns suitable as secondary guns on a SM +5 ship, creating a forrest of fire for shooting at fighters and missiles. |
05-01-2018, 05:55 AM | #35 | |
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Also note that massed small weapons will strip enemy ship shields away in no time making shields basically useless. |
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05-01-2018, 06:27 AM | #36 | |
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The one realistic thing that will help in any situation is to keep out of range of the smaller gun batteries. In a realistic spaceship battle the capital ships will likely fire at each other with missiles and main batteries at very long ranges, only getting close enough to maintain sensor contact and stay within range of their own main weapon batteries.
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05-01-2018, 11:45 PM | #39 |
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Smaller. Seriously, a ship like the Enterprise could mount hundreds Anti-Air/Point Defense batteries. The reimagined Battlestar Galactica seems to have done so.
To me, there's really two cures for this issue. The first is to have much smaller weapon battery mount available, but the second is to have Mixed Batteries, so that a SM+15 ship doesn't have to mount 300,000 point-defense weapons or leave most of the battery mostly empty as Cargo Hold. By using the idea of a mixed battery you could slice up a single Weapon Battery into numerous sizes of weapon mounts, allowing a mix of the smallest Point Defense weapons, some smallish Missiles, some larger Missiles and Anti-Air, and maybe even a couple Medium or Secondary weapons. Since the weapon sizes all scale on a 3/10/100 progression it's not that hard to slice up a weapon battery like that to maximize usefulness.
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05-02-2018, 09:23 AM | #40 | |
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Now, the Death Star had more small gun mounts than could be reasonably counted but other than that you probably need to go to some sort of anime ship fr the example you want.
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