[Spaceships] Where are the Capacitors?

[Peter Knutsen]

Originally Posted by SCAR

I see the idea, but Spaceships doesn't have the concept of Power Usage over Time. How much 'Power' does it take to fire a Laser Once, or to run a Reactionless Drive for 4 hours, or maybe 6 hours at half power?

You'd have to define some kind of Power Usage over Time for each system (possibly the same for all).

A simpler solution would be to invent a new category of ships, separate from the one that can be built with the core Spaceships rules. This category is the short-occupancy ship, created according to modified parameters, but gifted with more efficient energy systems (since they are batteries or capacitors, rather than reactors) and needing to connect with a mothership or space port very often. Perhaps every 8 hours.