Zaodai posted:

Saros, can I have my ship (the DDG More Missiles!) renamed "Titanic Space Bear"?

We'll strike fear in the hearts of our enemies yet.

Nevets posted:

Our adversaries are Vladimir Putin & Bill Gates, I think if you want to really scare them we should rename a couple of our ships "Eyeliner for Men" and "LibreOffice is Just as Good"

TheWetFish posted:

I keep the wiki open all the time, I've been playing on & off for years. You're more than welcome to ask any questions at all either here or over on the discord chat. There are no dumb questions when it comes to a game this complex, so do ask anything

When we're talking ship specs we're usually looking at the design summary. If you want a quick primer then check out the summary breakdown on the wiki page for class design

Edit:
Here's maybe a more simple primer, looking at those Phobos fighter-bombers we saw last combat. It's all situationally important stuff but these are maybe most immediately important

1. Class name and arbitrary designation
   
   
2. Size. Bigger is easier to pick up on active sensors. Fighters are under 500 tons, a Schiaparelli class destroyer is 2900 tons, a Zuckerberg is 10650 tons and an Olympos Mons class Battlecruiser is 14450 tons
   
   
3. Speed. Faster things can dictate range and also faster things are harder to hit with relatively slower tracking speed weapons or low agility missiles. Our nominal fleet speed is ~3300km/s, those IC Acquisition fighters go 5042km/s, Type 8 class PD fighters go 8k km/s and missiles are generally north of 8k km/s. I think the fastest enemy missiles we've seen are 14k km/s and our short range fighter based missiles at ~17k km/s
   
   
4. Armour. Aurora uses a box armour system. First value is rows (thickness), second is number of columns (width). Hits are randomly assigned a column and then cause damage from the lowest point in that column. Bigger ships have more columns, as does thicker armour
   
   
5. Missile magazine space. Each missile needs to be stored somewhere. Total missile size points of storage.
   24 size 1 missiles or (in this case) 8 size 1 missiles & 8 size 2 missiles
   
   
6. Range this ship can travel before running out of fuel. Ships can share fuel with other ships in their fleet but I think our current doctrine calls for every non-fighter ship to be reasonably self sufficient. (Do we even have a tanker class?) We are in the Sol system so you can google min & max distances between planets to get some perspective on ranges
   
   
7. Weapons components go here. Shown are 8 of size 1 missile box launchers and also 8 of size 2 missile box launchers
   
   
8. Fire controls, used to direct weapons fire. Shown is a missile fire control, there are also beam fire controls for direct fire weapons such as Gauss Cannons or Plasma Carronades
   
   
9. Missile types carried
   
   
10. Active sensor, needed to light targets up for weapons fire. Most important bits are the range & resolution. The range ships or missiles are detected at depends on the resolution of the sensor, it's base range and the size of the target. Smaller resolution is better at spotting small things. Resolution 1 to spot enemy missiles, resolution 8 for fighters
    
    

OwlFancier posted:

Well you got me to download this game and it's terrifying, is there any sort of new player guide?

E: looks like quill18 has a video series so I'll watch that.

Coffeehitler posted:

You will know within 20 minutes of hands on play whether or not Aurora is for you. I can't imagine watching someone else play it in VLP format . That said, bgremen's posts in his LP help explain a lot of the mechanics; and there's not only the discord for this LP, but an Aurora 4x discord as well (I believe they are both linked in the OP).

Coffeehitler posted:

To go along with the rail variant, I also designed a Laser variant:

code:

Type 8 Mk2 (Laser) class Fighter    497 tons     4 Crew     88.4 BP      TCS 9.94  TH 80  EM 0
8048 km/s     Armour 1-5     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 0     PPV 3
Maint Life 1.87 Years     MSP 11    AFR 19%    IFR 0.3%    1YR 4    5YR 60    Max Repair 40 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 0.1 months    Spare Berths 0    

80 EP Nuclear Pulse Engine (1)    Power 80    Fuel Use 376.18%    Signature 80    Exp 20%
Fuel Capacity 5,000 Litres    Range 0.5 billion km   (16 hours at full power)

10cm C2 Ultraviolet Laser (1)    Range 120,000km     TS: 8048 km/s     Power 3-2     RM 4    ROF 10        3 3 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 1
Fire Control S00.7 72-2000 (FTR) (1)    Max Range: 144,000 km   TS: 8000 km/s     93 86 79 72 65 58 51 44 37 31
Pebble Bed Reactor Technology PB-1.25 (1.5) (1)     Total Power Output 1.5    Armour 0    Exp 20%

This design is classed as a Fighter for production, combat and maintenance purposes

It should be noted that the Laser variant has a 19% Annual Failure Rate, owing to being able to fit Fighter-sized Engineering Spaces. Without the FES, it has roughly the same stats as the Rail Variant in terms of speed. This might be a good supplement to the Fighter Bomber design currently in use, owing to the 10cm Laser's longer effective range. This shouldn't really give it any effective advantage for Anti-Fighter or Anti-Missile use versus either variant (original or Rail).

For reference, the current Type 8:

code:

Type 8 class Fighter    500 tons     10 Crew     92 BP      TCS 10  TH 80  EM 0
8000 km/s     Armour 1-5     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 0     PPV 3.5
Maint Life 0 Years     MSP 0    AFR 100%    IFR 1.4%    1YR 16    5YR 243    Max Repair 40 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 0.12 months    Spare Berths 0    

80 EP Nuclear Pulse Engine (1)    Power 80    Fuel Use 376.18%    Signature 80    Exp 20%
Fuel Capacity 5,000 Litres    Range 0.5 billion km   (16 hours at full power)

Gauss Cannon R3-8 (7x3)    Range 30,000km     TS: 8000 km/s     Accuracy Modifier 8%     RM 3    ROF 5        1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fire Control S00.7 72-2000 (FTR) (1)    Max Range: 144,000 km   TS: 8000 km/s     93 86 79 72 65 58 51 44 37 31

This design is classed as a Fighter for production, combat and maintenance purposes

Kommando posted:

The laser Type 8 is a better strike craft and has much better range than the others (four times) , same rate of fire, cheaper, less crew and better supportability.
I support this design.
If we need a missile hunter the rail gun is good but what are those accuracy range brackets?

Saros posted:

Crazycryodude posted:

The railgun Type 8 looks like it would be way better, yeah. Also, I realize that a lot of the discussions in the thread/Discord about defending Titan haven't been officially put into writing, so while I'm at it here's Operation Thunderclap.

-Consult with @TFS Leadership re: their thoughts on glassing the DSTS that's still in IC hands. We'd really like to, letting the enemy watch our every move in high-def is understandably not the most optimal way to fight a war, but at the end of the day it's their call. Maybe there's a halfway point in a targeted ground offensive or something?
-If they give the go-ahead, glass the place, have the SB cook up our comms fuckery, and move all the assets we can into hidden positions/do our best to disguise those we can't move
-If the DSTS gets glassed, dispatch the FSV's and carrier with IC fighters aboard to launch sorties against the Uranus force. Be extremely careful, we can't spare any escorts so distance and staying hidden are their main defense. This is intended to harass the Uranus force and reduce what we have to deal with when they actually get to Titan, not fully destroy it (but if we get really lucky it might).

-If we don't get the go-ahead, get ready to fight them off the old-fashioned way. Our options for trickery are a lot more limited if the DSTS is still up and in IC hands. We can disperse small beam ships to the various moons so they can hide and pop out at opportune moments, but the bulk of the fight is gonna be the missile exchange no matter what. The consensus on that seems to be wait until the IC fleet(s) are in range of all our missiles, then dump a massive first salvo into the battlecruisers and hope it fucks them up enough that we can deal with the rest.


Questions, concerns, angry tirades?

Neophyte posted:

Also going from capacitor recharge rate 2 to 3 (and we've got some captured/salvaged C3 weapons to study) will double the rate of fire for the railgun and laser Type 8 versions. The only requirement is a slightly larger reactor on the fighters.

Also LOL missile massacree.

Fray posted:

Keep in mind that railguns and gauss both fire multiple shots per "fire," so their effective ROF is vastly higher than lasers. So the laser Type 8 won't be useful as a PD craft but yes, it would be good for antiship or antifighter work.

HiHo ChiRho posted:

I'm fine with a corporate buyout, and hopefully the facility gives us something to be on somewhat equal footing with UT.

Crazycryodude posted:

We really need to get extrasolar, though, letting earth build up any more lead than we absolutely have to could be devastating.

OwlFancier posted:

I feel like in space, territory is wherever you can shoot any other bastard who tries to take it.

Zore posted:

And what, exactly, is stopping Earth from ignoring that and quietly exploiting extrasolar stuff anyways?