Hey champs,
A few facts first:
-Turrets & docked ships get their shields loaded and guns fireable with energy from the main Ship
-these turrets and ships don't need an own power supply to do so
This means the following suggestion is allready partwise implemented.
1st Stage
My idea is to make docked units & the Main System charge one another. Ships could "Recharge" on something simmilar to a Gas Station .
2nd Stage
If the way the numbers for gens & tanks work on large ships would be altered down there would finaly be a sense of building machinery rooms with giant docked generators and power tanks to support the ship. In the fight itself destroying these facilities would prove fatal as they represent the ships life support. The difference is that a docked Power Tank or Generator is much harder to hide and more fragile to missile explosion radius.
To make this work you could e.g. increase the power output by the % of homogeneity of Powerblocks in comparision to the rest.
e.g.
1 Powerblock has an output of 100units/s
rough formula: (Power blocks/Total Block)*Power blocks*100
---> 10 power blocks 90 other blocks ---> 111,1units/s -> (10/90)*10*100=111
---> 50 power blocks 50 other blocks ---> 2500units/s -> (50/100)*50*100=2500
---> 90 power blocks 10 other blocks ---> 8100units/s -> (90/100)*90*100=8100
In my opinion a system like this would drastically change the way people build their ships to a more "realistic" way. They would start thinking about the "Interior".
Considering that a large ship usually consists of lets say 10-20% power generators this idea would have a large impact. due to the weight a small generator unit would produce more energy than a direct ship system 50times its size.
A few facts first:
-Turrets & docked ships get their shields loaded and guns fireable with energy from the main Ship
-these turrets and ships don't need an own power supply to do so
This means the following suggestion is allready partwise implemented.
1st Stage
My idea is to make docked units & the Main System charge one another. Ships could "Recharge" on something simmilar to a Gas Station .
2nd Stage
If the way the numbers for gens & tanks work on large ships would be altered down there would finaly be a sense of building machinery rooms with giant docked generators and power tanks to support the ship. In the fight itself destroying these facilities would prove fatal as they represent the ships life support. The difference is that a docked Power Tank or Generator is much harder to hide and more fragile to missile explosion radius.
To make this work you could e.g. increase the power output by the % of homogeneity of Powerblocks in comparision to the rest.
e.g.
1 Powerblock has an output of 100units/s
rough formula: (Power blocks/Total Block)*Power blocks*100
---> 10 power blocks 90 other blocks ---> 111,1units/s -> (10/90)*10*100=111
---> 50 power blocks 50 other blocks ---> 2500units/s -> (50/100)*50*100=2500
---> 90 power blocks 10 other blocks ---> 8100units/s -> (90/100)*90*100=8100
In my opinion a system like this would drastically change the way people build their ships to a more "realistic" way. They would start thinking about the "Interior".
Considering that a large ship usually consists of lets say 10-20% power generators this idea would have a large impact. due to the weight a small generator unit would produce more energy than a direct ship system 50times its size.
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