[Spaceships] Gasbag system - size modifier?

[Darekun]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

Spaceships #7 has stats for gasbags, and RPK mentioned that (for example) an SM+10 craft with appropriate-sized gasbags is the SM of folded, deflated state. So . . . what is the necessary SM adjustment for craft featuring gasbags?

Assuming the rest of the craft is "typical", you could use the relative static lift of the contents of the gas bag and the craft's (full) mass to determine the volume of the gas bag; then… Well, that's probably going to dwarf the rest of the craft, so you could take that volume to the equation in VE, or figure some proportions and use the table in Basic.



But Spaceships does not adjust for volume; its SMs are determined by mass. Consider these two craft:

SM: +8 Ballistic Escape Pod, 1 core Habitat, 19 Exotic Laminate Armor systems

SM: +8 Park Trailer, 1 core Engineering Room, 19 Open Space systems

Those should not have the same SM for targeting purposes.

Now, somebody could make a list of systems and the volume they come out to under VE(which would require some extrapolation and interpolation), and you could then add up volumes and use the equation in VE to find the SM. But that's a bit too complex for Spaceships.