Engineering Technology

[Mecron]

Your place to post questions, observations and comments on Engineering techs and their tree in Sword of the Stars II.

[Eleahen]

What this tree is about?

[BlueTemplar]

I'd guess Waldoes and bigger ships?

[Gwenio]

What this tree is about?

I will point out that drones are no longer listed, so they must be under engineering or riders.

It might also be ship/station hull upgrades (with industry being more about production now).

[Azrael Ultima]

I would guess Industry is more about things that affect I/O directly, while engineering is mostly about those that we have more direct control over, like ship building costs, bigger hulls, stations etc.

[Mecron]

an excellent guess.

[Mannerheim]

Modules

[evil713]

will tarka living steel still be a post combat tech, or will there be armor filling in the holes durring combat now?

[Kaan'Ish]

will tarka living steel still be a post combat tech, or will there be armor filling in the holes durring combat now?

It'd have to self-repair pretty quickly if it was to have any noticeable effect on combat timescales. The abstractions as presented in the original game would imply that living steel does not significantly add to a vessels 'durability under fire' (for that, you'll want to employ shaped armours, or more advanced armour compounds alloyed to the living steel), but does allow ships to be repaired more easily, as minor damage can be largely left alone, allowing efforts to focus on damaged components and structural damage.

I don't see any reason why this abstraction would not be maintained in SotS2.

[evil713]

will tarka living steel still be a post combat tech, or will there be armor filling in the holes durring combat now?

It'd have to self-repair pretty quickly if it was to have any noticeable effect on combat timescales. The abstractions as presented in the original game would imply that living steel does not significantly add to a vessels 'durability under fire' (for that, you'll want to employ shaped armours, or more advanced armour compounds alloyed to the living steel), but does allow ships to be repaired more easily, as minor damage can be largely left alone, allowing efforts to focus on damaged components and structural damage.

I don't see any reason why this abstraction would not be maintained in SotS2.

to be more precice i am asking if the repair function is gone from living steel, and instead of a repare durring the stragitic turn the combat turn armor cells move to fill in holes, say you get hit by a shot that takes 3 cell vertically it would then over time take cells from the top edges and fill the hole in.say 40 seconds to a minute.

[RELee]

Wish I had a tech tree to study. Oh well. Maybe later. I'll check back.

[xRei]

This is kinda a hard thread to speculate about beyond the most general of ideas without some solid information.

[Hari Seldon]

We have quark resonators for our armor, but what about using muons instead of electrons (more massive means smaller electron orbitals means tighter bonds between atoms), so long as we can stabilize the heavier elements? And Tau as an even heavier version for even more advanced more powerful armor?


http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1400/fc01394.htm

That comic references this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon-catalyzed_fusion

[amtie]

Sounds like a good start for Cold Fusion to me.

[Mecron]

sounds like some folks need to get out and enjoy summer more