RE: UNSC designs

I did the same thing with the UNSC Survey Cruiser I designed (except it
had
5 mass-1 scientific units).
For the ITTT transports and Q-ships, I also included an interface craft
bay
before adding modules. My modules had mass multiples of 3 (3, 6, 9, 12,
15,
18...). All modules are considered powered, so a weapons module could be
substituted for a cargo bay.

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Brian Bell
bkb@beol.net
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Beth Fulton [SMTP:beth.fulton@marine.csiro.au]
> Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2000 5:49 PM
> To:	gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
> Subject:	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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