The turret thread

[Keptick]

Don't think I posted this one here yet

 

[Blaza612]

Don't think I posted this one here yet

Kep for fucks sake, the size of everything you make is ridiculous! :P

 

[Ithirahad]

Kep for fucks sake, the size of everything you make is ridiculous! :p

Not everything; that's a Charon turret, so of course it'll be huge...

 

[Blaza612]

Not everything; that's a Charon turret, so of course it'll be huge...

:P

 

[TheWendigo]

Kind of off-beat, but it is a turret:
360* x 360* gyro-turret!

 

[Ithirahad]

Unidentified Flying Turret... I want

 

[alterintel]

A spin off of GaeasSon's Design. Still very much a work in progress...



Turret stats:
70470 DPS, Beam/Cannon/Over Drive, 2347/2349/2349
total size: 7047 weapon blocks, mass: 705
Radius of turret = 24 blocks

 

[GaeasSon]

A spin off of GaeasSon's Design. Still very much a work in progress...
...
Turret stats:
70470 DPS, Beam/Cannon/Over Drive, 2347/2349/2349
total size: 7047 weapon blocks, mass: 705
Radius of turret = 24 blocks

VERY Snazzy... A word of advice. That export of the Galaxy was done before Shields needed chargers. Slap some on there before the pirates find you and do acres of pin-hole damage before you notice them (it happened to me)

 

[alterintel]

VERY Snazzy... A word of advice. That export of the Galaxy was done before Shields needed chargers. Slap some on there before the pirates find you and do acres of pin-hole damage before you notice them (it happened to me)

Thanks, it's a good thing you told me I haddn't noticed yet.

 

[Reilly Reese]

Thanks, it's a good thing you told me I haddn't noticed yet.

Just turn pirates off or remember god mode.

 

[virtue1987]

My turrets for my faction ships:
Antimissile Turret.

Small Ship Turrets.

A little bigger ones.

Again bigger ones.


Hope you like them.

 

[hzzzln]

Low profile PD turret

It's also got a sexy back

 

[GaeasSon]

Here's another embedded turret. Publishing the SMENT in a moment.

 

[Keptick]

Here's another embedded turret. Publishing the SMENT in a moment.

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I'm guessing that it can't aim up much?

 

[GaeasSon]

-5 to 50 degrees elevation. 10 to 360 degrees rotational freedom depending on how you configure the base.

 

[alterintel]

This is basically a re-post of my WIP Enterprise D.
Here is the progress I've been making on my internal turrets there and some of the improvements I've made.
1) Instead of the turret only being the size of a 1/8 sphere, now it's a 1/4 sphere. potentially doubling it's size
Also the empty space needed inside the ship is half what it was before.

2) It now has ---> 360x90 <---degrees of movement. The same as the most common turret.


Currently the moving part of the turret has a mass of 903.75, so it's definitely going to need some mass enhancers.
The turret has 9000 weapon blocks, 3000/3000/3000, Beam/Cannon/OverDrive. This may prove to be difficult to sustain.
DPS:270K, e/sec: 4.5 mil. I may have to get rid of the overdrive?
Dimensions: X/Y/Z, 51/29/51 (prime for inserting into my enterprise)

Current issues:
Mass enhancers don't seem to be working properly. I did my calculations, and if I don't count for the 50 mass of "freemass", and each mass enhancer supports 5 mass, then I should need roughly 181 mass enhancers to allow for full mobility. But the turret still moves as slow a molasses on a winter's day. To verify that it was a mass enhancer problem, and not just because it's a big turret, I changed the "freemass" amount from 50 to 1000 in the config file. This is when the turret came alive. Hopefully the mass enhancer problem will be corrected soon. I'm going to try to put the mass enhancers directly on the turret base and see if that has an effect.

I also want to try an "inverse" or chained docked reactor to power the turret. Since power sharing works with docked entities, I'm going to make a couple of docked reactors without the power supply beams. Then I'll try chain docking them and putting the turret at the end of the chain dock. Though this wont supply any energy to the mother ship, it should be able to power the turret

I'll upload a sment once I'm happy that the turret works without having to modify block config files.

 

[GaeasSon]

The turret has 9000 weapon blocks, 3000/3000/3000, Beam/Cannon/OverDrive. This may prove to be difficult to sustain.
DPS:270K, e/sec: 4.5 mil.

 

[alterintel]

Update:

The turret has 9000 weapon blocks, 3000/3000/3000, Beam/Cannon/OverDrive. This may prove to be difficult to sustain.
DPS:270K, e/sec: 4.5 mil. I may have to get rid of the overdrive?

In reality it's drawing about 9.5 mil/sec

Current issues:
Mass enhancers don't seem to be working properly... I'm going to try to put the mass enhancers directly on the turret base and see if that has an effect.

I put the mass enhancers directly on the turret base and this resolved the issues.

I also want to try an "inverse" or chained docked reactor to power the turret. Since power sharing works with docked entities, I'm going to make a couple of docked reactors without the power supply beams. Then I'll try chain docking them and putting the turret at the end of the chain dock. Though this wont supply any energy to the mother ship, it should be able to power the turret

I'm calling them chain reactors, and they "kind of" work.
While the turret can't access the e/sec of the reactor, it can access the power storage. So I made about 20 modular reactors that generate and store about 500K each. I then docked them to each other. At the end of the chain I put down my 9.5 mil e/sec turret.

I also had to modify my turret so that it had a 50% duty cycle (1 sec on, 1 sec off) to give the tank system enough time to recharge.

It works like a champ. Now I just have to figure out where I'm going to stash 288 (250x190) reactors. That's how many it will take to independently power 12 x 270K DPS phasor turrets

This is going to be soo cool

 

[hzzzln]

 

[Blaza612]

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It's significantly easier for us to see if you link an imgur image through the add image button. :P

On a side note nice turret.