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this is too funny to not share this here
(09-20-2016, 06:05 AM)Surge Wrote: [ -> ]
(09-20-2016, 05:54 AM)Shaadaris Wrote: [ -> ]I have no idea how feasible any of this is, but even if it isn't, it sounds reasonable enough.
Technobabble +1. Level up.
On a scale of feasible to horseshit it is definitely a 4 or something
Long as I can convince the average person though I am satisfied.

One of my retro-themed starships had a similar shield though.

It used a slowly rotating magnetic field that on emerging from FTL would quickly gather nearby meteorites and space junk. This would orbit gently around it in a continually thickening debris field, providing an ablative shielding of sorts.

But said ship was also a freighter, and when it went to warp it left behind a swirl of space junk gradually spreading out again since the magnetic field was gone. The shields had to be operating for some time at sublight velocities to have any kind of effectiveness - since it took time for the shield to gather debris. This shield would also capture nearby freight containers interestingly enough, making it rather convenient when loading cargo without a proper space dock because you could fling the container towards it and let the shield capture it, then attach a thruster pack to the container to 'deorbit' it so it would fall into the cargo bay.

I had considered a few times including a mechanism to capture debris from the shield, grind them up and store them inside the ship, then use that material as chaff to prime the shields if it happened to warp into a crisis.


Your plasma system sounds interesting, but I see a very problematic flaw- it would require a specially shaped magnetic field to capture the plasma in an envelope that attracts it to keep it within a certain distance, but then repels it again so it doesn't stick to the hull. My solution to it would be to phase the shields- it operates at one polarity to attract the plasma, then once the plasma has momentum towards the hull, it reverses polarity to repel it and push it away again. Like so the thickness of the plasma belt would be controlled by the frequency- lower frequency means thicker field, but to achieve compression for shielding an incoming shot you would have to change the frequency up and down at regular intervals to decompress and recompress the plasma so it doesn't cool off or get squeezed out.
(09-21-2016, 03:11 PM)OdinYggd Wrote: [ -> ]
(09-20-2016, 06:05 AM)Surge Wrote: [ -> ]On a scale of feasible to horseshit it is definitely a 4 or something
Long as I can convince the average person though I am satisfied.

One of my retro-themed starships had a similar shield though.

It used a slowly rotating magnetic field that on emerging from FTL would quickly gather nearby meteorites and space junk. This would orbit gently around it in a continually thickening debris field, providing an ablative shielding of sorts.

But said ship was also a freighter, and when it went to warp it left behind a swirl of space junk gradually spreading out again since the magnetic field was gone. The shields had to be operating for some time at sublight velocities to have any kind of effectiveness - since it took time for the shield to gather debris. This shield would also capture nearby freight containers interestingly enough, making it rather convenient when loading cargo without a proper space dock because you could fling the container towards it and let the shield capture it, then attach a thruster pack to the container to 'deorbit' it so it would fall into the cargo bay.

I had considered a few times including a mechanism to capture debris from the shield, grind them up and store them inside the ship, then use that material as chaff to prime the shields if it happened to warp into a crisis.


Your plasma system sounds interesting, but I see a very problematic flaw- it would require a specially shaped magnetic field to capture the plasma in an envelope that attracts it to keep it within a certain distance, but then repels it again so it doesn't stick to the hull. My solution to it would be to phase the shields- it operates at one polarity to attract the plasma, then once the plasma has momentum towards the hull, it reverses polarity to repel it and push it away again. Like so the thickness of the plasma belt would be controlled by the frequency- lower frequency means thicker field, but to achieve compression for shielding an incoming shot you would have to change the frequency up and down at regular intervals to decompress and recompress the plasma so it doesn't cool off or get squeezed out.
Well the shields form a bubble rather than a "skin" so contact with the hull isn't an issue as long as the interior barrier is intact, and failsafes mean that the exterior barrier will shut down and totally vent the shield before the interior barrier can be made to fail.
"That's not a mech, that abomination is a very angry, lumbering hulk of controlled explosions"

Wondering if surge can find an image of a mech that fits that description, a mech with so many heavy weapons bolted on it becomes a "lumbering hulk of controlled explosions"
(09-21-2016, 06:59 PM)Rahizel Wrote: [ -> ]"That's not a mech, that abomination is a very angry, lumbering hulk of controlled explosions"

Wondering if surge can find an image of a mech that fits that description, a mech with so many heavy weapons bolted on it becomes a "lumbering hulk of controlled explosions"
The Bane is the closest I can think of, with a disgusting 11 low caliber ultra-autocannons (ultras benefit from faster but less reliable loading mechanisms) and a meager 4 machine guns bolted on for support. That's the base model anyways, all the variants are just different spins on this central "guns with legs" concept.

The Yeoman is also a close contender, being literally nothing more than some missile racks with legs and a cockpit bolted on.

Ok Really really sorry that i just vanished like that who knows how long ago, i can't help it i get distracted easily and forget about things >////< i tend to leave projects unfinished as a result.
(09-21-2016, 07:14 PM)Silverduke1 Wrote: [ -> ]Ok Really really sorry that i just vanished like that who knows how long ago, i can't help it i get distracted easily and forget about things >////< i tend to leave projects unfinished as a result.
Who are you?

(/s)
They tamed what are effectively gigantic 8-limbed Panthers and fed Orks to them, halp.
(09-21-2016, 07:29 PM)SilverOtter Wrote: [ -> ]
(09-21-2016, 07:14 PM)Silverduke1 Wrote: [ -> ]Ok Really really sorry that i just vanished like that who knows how long ago, i can't help it i get distracted easily and forget about things >////< i tend to leave projects unfinished as a result.
Who are you?

(/s)

you really forgot me? D: i know its been a long time but still?
(09-21-2016, 07:13 PM)Surge Wrote: [ -> ]
(09-21-2016, 06:59 PM)Rahizel Wrote: [ -> ]"That's not a mech, that abomination is a very angry, lumbering hulk of controlled explosions"

Wondering if surge can find an image of a mech that fits that description, a mech with so many heavy weapons bolted on it becomes a "lumbering hulk of controlled explosions"
The Bane is the closest I can think of, with a disgusting 11 low caliber ultra-autocannons (ultras benefit from faster but less reliable loading mechanisms) and a meager 4 machine guns bolted on for support. That's the base model anyways, all the variants are just different spins on this central "guns with legs" concept.

The Yeoman is also a close contender, being literally nothing more than some missile racks with legs and a cockpit bolted on.

Yeoman seems about right.
(09-21-2016, 07:35 PM)Silverduke1 Wrote: [ -> ]
(09-21-2016, 07:29 PM)SilverOtter Wrote: [ -> ]Who are you?

(/s)

you really forgot me? D: i know its been a long time but still?
(09-21-2016, 07:29 PM)SilverOtter Wrote: [ -> ](/s)
I'd love to see MWO get something equivalent to the GDI juggernaut, 3 massive naval grade howitzers with the ammo box welded under the breach, and the turret mounted on incredibly sturdy legs with ankle mounted stabilizers...

And a cramped cockpit bolted onto the side as an afterthought.

If something like that fired flak or scattershot rounds through 1 barrel and depleted uranium shells through the other two it would be a force to reckon with, so long as it's escorted well to defend its feet against anklebiters.

(09-21-2016, 07:58 PM)SilverOtter Wrote: [ -> ]
(09-21-2016, 07:35 PM)Silverduke1 Wrote: [ -> ]you really forgot me? D: i know its been a long time but still?
(09-21-2016, 07:29 PM)SilverOtter Wrote: [ -> ](/s)
Lol.
(09-21-2016, 07:58 PM)SilverOtter Wrote: [ -> ]
(09-21-2016, 07:35 PM)Silverduke1 Wrote: [ -> ]you really forgot me? D: i know its been a long time but still?
(09-21-2016, 07:29 PM)SilverOtter Wrote: [ -> ](/s)

(09-21-2016, 08:00 PM)Rahizel Wrote: [ -> ]I'd love to see MWO get something equivalent to the GDI juggernaut, 3 massive naval grade howitzers with the ammo box welded under the breach, and the turret mounted on incredibly sturdy legs with ankle mounted stabilizers...

And a cramped cockpit bolted onto the side as an afterthought.

If something like that fired flak or scattershot rounds through 1 barrel and depleted uranium shells through the other two it would be a force to reckon with, so long as it's escorted well to defend its feet against anklebiters.

(09-21-2016, 07:58 PM)SilverOtter Wrote: [ -> ]
Lol.

i don't know what /s means sorry
(09-21-2016, 08:00 PM)Rahizel Wrote: [ -> ]I'd love to see MWO get something equivalent to the GDI juggernaut, 3 massive naval grade howitzers with the ammo box welded under the breach, and the turret mounted on incredibly sturdy legs with ankle mounted stabilizers...

And a cramped cockpit bolted onto the side as an afterthought.

If something like that fired flak or scattershot rounds through 1 barrel and depleted uranium shells through the other two it would be a force to reckon with, so long as it's escorted well to defend its feet against anklebiters.

(09-21-2016, 07:58 PM)SilverOtter Wrote: [ -> ]
Lol.
Naval weapons in Battletech weigh several times more than even the heaviest battlemechs. A LIGHT naval gauss rifle is 4500 tons. The largest mech ever produced was 150 tons.

Long Toms are the closest you'll get, but you can only even mount 2 by breaking the construction rules
(09-21-2016, 08:03 PM)Silverduke1 Wrote: [ -> ]
(09-21-2016, 08:00 PM)Rahizel Wrote: [ -> ]I'd love to see MWO get something equivalent to the GDI juggernaut, 3 massive naval grade howitzers with the ammo box welded under the breach, and the turret mounted on incredibly sturdy legs with ankle mounted stabilizers...

And a cramped cockpit bolted onto the side as an afterthought.

If something like that fired flak or scattershot rounds through 1 barrel and depleted uranium shells through the other two it would be a force to reckon with, so long as it's escorted well to defend its feet against anklebiters.


Lol.

i don't know what /s means sorry

"Satire ends here".
(09-21-2016, 08:13 PM)SilverOtter Wrote: [ -> ]
(09-21-2016, 08:03 PM)Silverduke1 Wrote: [ -> ]i don't know what /s means sorry

"Satire ends here".
Sarcasm not satire
(09-21-2016, 08:13 PM)SilverOtter Wrote: [ -> ]
(09-21-2016, 08:03 PM)Silverduke1 Wrote: [ -> ]i don't know what /s means sorry

"Satire ends here".

(09-21-2016, 08:14 PM)Surge Wrote: [ -> ]
(09-21-2016, 08:13 PM)SilverOtter Wrote: [ -> ]"Satire ends here".
Sarcasm not satire

ohhhh thanks for explaining that ^^;
(09-21-2016, 08:14 PM)Surge Wrote: [ -> ]
(09-21-2016, 08:13 PM)SilverOtter Wrote: [ -> ]"Satire ends here".
Sarcasm not satire
God damn it
so whats everyone up to if i may ask?