Re: UNSC designs

G'day Tom,

If its any help I found the easiest way of making modular ships (when
designing my IAS) was to specify a final hull size I wanted, put on the
engines (you'd also have to put screens on here if you wanted them) and
say
that part was fixed and then make up heaps of different modules (all 21
mass in my case) which had different weapon/cargo/bay configs etc in
them
and then just slotted them into the base hull to get the final product -
ie. may design page looked like

Mass:.......
Hull integrity..... (OK this would get more complicated if you tried to
give different sections different hull integrities)
FTL.......
Thrust....
Weaponary on fixed design part.....  (usually a class 1 and a PDS)
Remaining unused space available for modules = Mass - sum of paid bits
(as
mine were representing cargo ships having their cargo modules replaced
by
weapons modules they were on the large side and thus had enough room for
3xmass21 modules).

Cheers

Beth

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