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Aeson -> RE: Warp gates and wormholes? (5/2/2014 3:26:12 AM)
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ORIGINAL: swizzlewizzle
Is it possible to get ships with multiple warp drives?
If I'm not mistaken, you can currently design and build ships with multiple warp drive components, and the resulting vessel will have something along the lines of the following:
- Hyper speed will be the greatest hyper speed offered by the drives it carries (i.e. if you have a Gerax for 18150 and a Calista-Dal for 15000, your ship's hyper speed will be 18150).
- Jump initiation time will be the lowest of the drives (so if you have a Kaldos drive with a jump initiation of 7 seconds and an Equinox drive with a jump initiation of 13 seconds, your ship will take 7 seconds to initiate a hyperjump).
- Hyperdrive energy usage will be equal to the largest energy usage of a single drive (so with a 103 energy Gerax and a 60 energy Calista-Dal, hyperdrive energy usage is 103).
Incidentally, this last point ensures that there's absolutely no reason to include a Warp Bubble Generator even as a backup hyperdrive - despite the most basic level of Gerax Hyperdrive being ~6 times faster than the Warp Bubble and only requiring 78 energy to activate, the design screen lists the hyperdrive energy usage to attain 12500 hyper speed as the 132 energy required for the Warp Bubble Generator. I don't know if that's true operationally, but it is what the design screen lists as required. This also means that there is relatively little point in mixing the 'efficient' Calista-Dal drive with the faster Equinox or faster initiation Kaldos drives, as the Kaldos has the highest energy requirement of the three drives and the Equinox has a higher top speed (meaning that Calista-Dal + Kaldos has no advantages and at least one disadvantage over Equinox + Kaldos); additionally, the Calista-Dal has at best a marginally faster (by 1 second) jump initiation than the Equinox, assuming equal upgrade levels for the two drives, so in combination with the fact that the Equinox is not much more energy-efficient than the Kaldos there's little reason to play with Calista-Dal + Equinox instead of Kaldos + Equinox or just a single hyperdrive.
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