A Simple Graph of the Chamber Tree

[SchnellBier]

Just kidding. It isn´t that simple.

I´ll try to keep it updated. Feel free to discuss.

 

[AtraUnam]

Schine please sticky or SchnellBier put it on the wiki.

 

[virtue1987]

Oh boy, that looks interesting. I had a thread going a long time ago with the idea to give a ship a Special role and for it to recieve Special boni, like a mining ship has increased mining beam efficency, good to see something simillar is going to happen.

 

[Temeter]

Interesting. I was kinda worrying after some PvPer's complained, but at least for my fun-building and PvE nonsense this seem excellent! Much easier to give ships specific roles, or even modify them. Imagine it's gonna be great for RP stuff in general, giving your ships capabilities a rough outline.

I can imagine that some of the abilities are much more useful than others, but that's IMO not much of a problem. Not everything has to be 100% balanced (although PvP dynamics are ofc a bit sensitive either way).

 

[SchnellBier]

I´m pretty sure that a lot of values are still wip and need some adjustment. Also i can see that the number of chambers you´ll need on a ship could be quite problematic depending on reactor size.

Just a small example:
45% FTL: Autocharge, Jump Charge Speed 2, Multi Charge 1
7.5% Recon: Recon Strength 2,
20% Mobility: Turn Rate 3 72,5
25% Defence: Base Shield Enhancement, Shield Capacity 1,
2.5% Stealth: Stealth Strength 1
0% Mass Chamber: Personal Gravity

This setup would need 9 chambers which could take up a lot of space. The FTL chambers, basic Recon and Personal Gravity feel like a must have. Also i heard that Turn Rate is pretty op. Not so sure if there is a lot of choices at the moment. Only solution to this is a second reactor to switch.

 

[DeepspaceMechanic]

The FTL chambers, basic Recon and Personal Gravity feel like a must have.

What's the effect of the "Personal Gravity" chamber? I saw that it consumes zero RC%, but the effect description doesn't make things clear. Does it do something on ships that we can't achieve with gravity blocks?

 

[Daraku]

What's the effect of the "Personal Gravity" chamber?

Whats effect of all other gravity chambers? I cannot figure out difference.

 

[MacThule]

I like the new tech tree. Not sure why it's nominally part of the reactor when none of those chambers affect power production at all... but it's cool.

 

[DeepspaceMechanic]

I like the new tech tree. Not sure why it's nominally part of the reactor when none of those chambers affect power production at all... but it's cool.

"Chambers" are more like power consuming systems connected to the reactor, which are meant to enhance different functions of ships or stations... And although it's true that calling them "chambers" is kind of a misnomer (which makes one think of eg. a "combustion chamber" which is an internal part of power producing machinery) there is in fact a "power chamber" category which affects reactor output.

 

[MacThule]

I understand, thank you.

Try to look at it this way though; that one exception aside, are any of the many other chambers part of power generation, or just that one? If only that one, what is "reactor" about the other chambers?

It is worth noting that when we describe a combustion engine, we typically call every component "part of the engine" even if it isn't directly related to power generation, but... this is a misleading practice IRL, and adversely affects people's understanding of many of these peripheral components, their function, and their varying degrees of necessity. I feel like describing non-reactor components as reactor components is a nomenclature likely to result in poorer understanding of the actual relationships between these systems.

I could be wrong though. Often am. My basis in their old role as peripheral effect systems could be biasing me againts the new nomenclature.