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Re: Best way to make a -F IS

Tue, 25 September 2007 22:21

Captain Maim

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Well there's a distinct method to my madness regarding prop cheap or expensive and IFE. Yes IFE's faster, I know that, a PVT with 3 fuel pods fully loaded can travel at warp 9 222ly (unassisted) and dump it's load and still return at warp 9 with virtually all by a few mg (like 3) of it's fuel used. Where as the same design with the rad ram, at warp 9 can still return without refueling if it only travels 110ly.

Adding a single fuel export bumps it upto 153ly.

With 2 Fuel Exports it can go 190ly.

With 3 fuel exports and one PVT with rad ram and 3 fuel pods it reaches 220ly round trip at warp 9 with full cargo one way only. That is, if you wanted to travel at warp 9. Probably more if you let the pop grow in flight rather than filling the thing up all the way. But I don't feel like figuring out a formula to account for that sort of dynamic fuel usage. Even Stars doesn't do that for you, if it did it'd be a lot easier to see one's limits on travel.

So it's significantly more costly in game to go with rad ram over fuel mizer in the short run. But with prop cheap you can always and quite easily upgrade later.

Though once gates go up it's not important how much fuel was used to get there. Getting back's a breeze.

Addendum: Those calculations DID NOT account for the fuel produced by the fuel exports. It was just straight usage. Again, I didn't want to figure out how to account for that. At least not right now.

Actually the minimum kill rate is 0. Even with the apparent max of 38% death, it still isn't a certainty, when I first started playing *I* didn't know anything about Rad Rams, I just saw a cheap engine with a decorative rad symbol on it. I found certain freighters regularly had deaths while others did not. I'd mark those with deaths as "haunted". But not all suffered, some never suffered deaths, even on longish voyages. It's weird but it's not a certainty that 100 will die.

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