[Spaceships] SM+35 Toroid Station?

[DataPacRat]

Originally Posted by Anthony

Stone armor isn't nanotubes.

Stone armor isn't fire extinguishers or airlocks, either; as far as I can tell, Spaceships abstracts away structural supports as just being there anyway.

(Edit: Well, mostly; the current draft spends $300 quintillion on its "spin gravity".)

Aside from that, the big problem is that spaceships uses the wrong scaling law for a lot of things, and when you use the correct scaling law you wind up with something nonsensical.

For example, 1 EP appears to be about 100 W/kg, or 5e+21W in your case. The upper limit of solar panels is about 1 kW/m^2 and realistic value is about a quarter of that, so we need 5e+18m^2 of solar panels, or about a 1.2 million kilometer radius. Radiators have a similar limit.

By EP, I'm guessing you mean a Power Point?

With a bit of GIF-fiddling, the amount of surface-area a Gaea station has to face the sun is about 1.4M km^2. (Including both mirrors to reflect sunlight, and panels to absorb power.) Which is undoubtedly less than your listed numbers.

But since I'm only buying a SM+35 Solar Panel to power the SM+35 Factory to get +1 HP, if that's a problem, I'm willing to nuke both in favour of a couple more Open Spaces, and just have some SM+31-or-smaller panels, factories, and the like.