The Mak wrote:
I believe battleships will make a return, but they will use rail guns instead of the traditional explosive charge to launch a projectile. Rail guns are showing to have larger ranges, high accuracy, and high damage even without the projectile having any built in explosive charge. It just throws a heavy object at very high speeds. The kinetic energy released on impact is pretty impressive. Now mount a few of these on a large platform such as a ship and you can keep raining hell upon the enemy from great distances at incredible speeds. A missile from great distance has a higher chance of being intercepted. A hunk of metal slug the size of a fire extinguisher going at incredible speeds isn't that likely to be intercepted.
The way I see the units in FA is that these are not the best units that can be made with the technological advancements we are shown in the fiction. Rather, these are the best units that can be made using the manufacturing technique of pattering or nanolating (or whatever they call it) using the most common elements that can be found on most planets. Perhaps there are limits of what type of mass can be created from these quick to build mass fabricators or what can be mined from the mass extractors. The units that are on the field have to:
- be able to be built quickly
- utilize common elements or compounds that can be created or collected
- dish an extraordinary amount of damage and likewise,
- be able to absorb a good amount of damage to be able to function under fire
- create or store its own projectiles (which to me means there is a mini factory in each unit that creates the projectile from the mass that can be collected as it moves around or a power source that can emit an energy projectile)
- and for most units, be able to run for a very long time
Look at the many techniques for 3D printing. Each method has capabilities and limitations with regard to material, build complexity, speed, build strength, cost, etc. You can probably say the same thing for the many different manufacturing techniques that can exist in the SupCom period.
So that can be a reason why missiles or projectiles in the SupCom game cannot go the larger distances of today's equivalent technology. It can take weeks or months to make our current battleships. In SupCom, it only takes minutes.
Valki wrote:Ceneraii wrote:Besides, if you go for realism arguments then battleships probably wouldn't even be used, it would be all carriers destroyers frigates and cruisers.
Battleships have been obsolete for a long while indeed, but so are cruisers. They are almost entirely out of use today, only 2 navies still have them.
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I believe battleships will make a return, but they will use rail guns instead of the traditional explosive charge to launch a projectile. Rail guns are showing to have larger ranges, high accuracy, and high damage even without the projectile having any built in explosive charge. It just throws a heavy object at very high speeds. The kinetic energy released on impact is pretty impressive. Now mount a few of these on a large platform such as a ship and you can keep raining hell upon the enemy from great distances at incredible speeds. A missile from great distance has a higher chance of being intercepted. A hunk of metal slug the size of a fire extinguisher going at incredible speeds isn't that likely to be intercepted.
yeager wrote:
Of course not, but why would range on battle ships decrease? If anything they would increase. Same with all units. But if we make the maps "bigger" it makes a lot more sense
The way I see the units in FA is that these are not the best units that can be made with the technological advancements we are shown in the fiction. Rather, these are the best units that can be made using the manufacturing technique of pattering or nanolating (or whatever they call it) using the most common elements that can be found on most planets. Perhaps there are limits of what type of mass can be created from these quick to build mass fabricators or what can be mined from the mass extractors. The units that are on the field have to:
- be able to be built quickly
- utilize common elements or compounds that can be created or collected
- dish an extraordinary amount of damage and likewise,
- be able to absorb a good amount of damage to be able to function under fire
- create or store its own projectiles (which to me means there is a mini factory in each unit that creates the projectile from the mass that can be collected as it moves around or a power source that can emit an energy projectile)
- and for most units, be able to run for a very long time
Look at the many techniques for 3D printing. Each method has capabilities and limitations with regard to material, build complexity, speed, build strength, cost, etc. You can probably say the same thing for the many different manufacturing techniques that can exist in the SupCom period.
So that can be a reason why missiles or projectiles in the SupCom game cannot go the larger distances of today's equivalent technology. It can take weeks or months to make our current battleships. In SupCom, it only takes minutes.
This is a great comment, good job
Statistics: Posted by yeager — 09 Sep 2015, 22:16
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