BFS III New Ships and Tech

(quote)Originally posted by BariSaxGuy5:
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Dreden Mini-Outpost: 45 million, at least tentatively
Dreden Titan Mk. II: 65 million
(Yes, it's lower. It has a Trinity Cannon, but gave up 20 Heavy Fighters. I tend to think that more than balances out.)

(quote)Originally posted by BariSaxGuy5:
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Originally posted by Macavenger:
**Dreden Titan Mk. II: 65 million
(Yes, it's lower. It has a Trinity Cannon, but gave up 20 Heavy Fighters. I tend to think that more than balances out.)
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Sounds good to me. I figured keeping those fighters would have booted the price up to around 100 million... Besides, we already have an earlier model that carries fighters. Don't need another one...

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Mac, just why is the Excelsier 45 million? It was modeled after the Skyhawk which is 10 million. I might have added some extra weaponry in some areas but I took off fighters which should lower the price accordingly. So mind explaining why it is so expensive?

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Originally posted by spl_cadet:
**Mac, just why is the Excelsier 45 million? It was modeled after the Skyhawk which is 10 million. I might have added some extra weaponry in some areas but I took off fighters which should lower the price accordingly. So mind explaining why it is so expensive?
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I think that it's fair to say that Mac is using his position a little to his advantage. 😉

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Dreadnaught Class StarCrusier
Shields:18,000
Armor:18,000
Speed:130
Accel:••
Manuverability:•••
Fuel:13 jumps
Price:???(This had better be resonable, I cranked down the shields and armor for the price, Im estimating 105,000,000)
45 Fusion Partical Beam Turrets
20 TLRT Beams
70 Needle Beam Turretes
50 Seeker Module Launchers
500 Seeker Modules
15 Detonator Canister Launchers
500 Detonator Canisters
2 Drill Bomb Tubes
4 Drill bombs
2 Point Defence cannons
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(This message has been edited by grunadulater (edited 01-02-2002).)

OMG!!! That ship has the manueverability of a destroyer/light cruiser, shields of a carrier, and armament of a battlecruiser. That thing should cost way north of 180M.

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I think it should be at least two hundred million.

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Thats funny coming from our enemies... did anyone notice that it has less shields than both the Liberty and the Republic? not to mention the fact that hey guess what it has no fighter bays whatsoever, when the Republic has space for 1,500 and the Liberty 2,000? As for the weapons? well the Republic has 500 turbolasr turrets the Liberty has 500 plasma beam turrets, we have 45 fusion particle beam turrets which ammounts too VASTLY less firepower than either. Hell one plasma beam turret has twice the firepower of a fusion particle beam, the you have lest see 455 more of them than we do? I'll admit that the Fusion particle beam is more powerful than the Turbolaser, but is it more powerful than 11 of them? Long story short yeah its faster and more manuverable, but the subtraction of fighter bays makes it MUCH smaller. And the weapons? the are mostly anti-fighter (needle turrets, tractor beams, detonator canisters), and the Antiship weapons are under that of a Dreden Battlecruiser and the HC Carrier, while Superior to the HC battlecruisers. I think that price is very reasonalble if not too expensive compared to the Dreden and HC ships.

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I'd give the Imperial Dreadnought a price of around 110 / 125,000,000 credits. It has some excellent shielding, but grundy has a point... The Liberty could easily blast that thing with its superior firepower. Mac gets the final call.

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Thanks Skyblade, but i belive I was the one with the point 😛 I could live with 110,000,000 for it but I do think that its more than 15 or 30 million credits inferior to the Republic, 105 still seems reasonable to me.

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(quote)Originally posted by Vice Admiral Ipvicus:
**Thanks Skyblade, but i belive I was the one with the point:p

I'm sure Mac will settle somewhere around 105/115 million. Not sure though...

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Ok, ok... I didn't make these, they're heavily-edited. But I don't have time to design totally new models at the moment. 😉

Dreden Minelayer
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Shields: 225
Armor: 225
Speed: 250
Acceleration: •••
Turning: •••
Fuel: 6 Jumps
Price: 20,00,000 credits (not final)
4 Plasma Beam Turrets
4 Plasma Beam Cannons
6 Heavy Fighters
2 Mine Layers
50 Space Mines
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Dreden Mine
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Guidance: None
Range: None (remains where layed)
Speed: N/A
Turn: N/A
Damage: (250)/(250)
Innaccuracy: None
Splash Effect: High explosives and shrapnel. Major damage to capital ships and fighters.
Restrictions: Maximum of two launchers for any ship.

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(quote)Originally posted by Captain Skyblade:
**Ok, ok... I didn't make these, they're heavily-edited. But I don't have time to design totally new models at the moment.:)

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**Skyblade, if you want me to, I can make any new Dreden ships that you want. All you have to do is ask me...;) But speaking of which, would you be up to making a carrier-like ship, with appearance similar to the Titan? If so, that'd be great...

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Originally posted by spl_cadet:
**Mac, just why is the Excelsier 45 million? It was modeled after the Skyhawk which is 10 million. I might have added some extra weaponry in some areas but I took off fighters which should lower the price accordingly. So mind explaining why it is so expensive?

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Did you notice you put on 24 Fighters which cost 1.4 million each? THat's 33.6 million of the cost. I know very well it was patterned after the Skyhawk, which does not come with fighters included. Subtraction will show you that the ship itself is 11.4 million, quite fair given that you did add more weapons.

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Originally posted by grunadulater:
**Dreadnaught Class StarCrusier
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Luckily, you guys will never know exactly what price I would put on that, because it shatters the 4 weapon limit, and is illegal. However, 105 million or anything close is just crazy; Rak is absolutely correct. If you factor in armor, it's much better shielded than the Republic, it's faster, and has probably three timers the firepower.

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Originally posted by Macavenger:
**Luckily, you guys will never know exactly what price I would put on that, because it shatters the 4 weapon limit, and is illegal. However, 105 million or anything close is just crazy; Rak is absolutely correct. If you factor in armor, it's much better shielded than the Republic, it's faster, and has probably three timers the firepower.
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Sorry, didn't know that.And the Rebublic has wayyyy more guns than the Dreadnaught.

Dreadnaught Class StarCrusier
Shields:18,000
Armor:18,000
Speed:130
Accel:•
Manuverability:•
Fuel:13 jumps
Price:???
50 Fusion Partical Beam Turrets
25 TLRT Beams
50 Seeker Module Launchers, 1000 Seeker Modules
1 Drill Bomb Tubes, 4 Drill bombs

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Originally posted by grunadulater:
**Sorry, didn't know that.And the Rebublic has wayyyy more guns than the Dreadnaught.

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He's referring to how many gun slots you've used... Four is the maximum.

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Originally posted by grunadulater:
And the Rebublic has wayyyy more guns than the Dreadnaught.

Quality over quantity. Ours are simple turrets, yours are a beam better than the Alien's big red beam from the original. Doing a direct statistical comparison (something I rarely do, since we don't want to get too bogged down with numbers), the 50 F-P Beams on your Alien Dreadnought have roughly twice the firepower of the Republic's 500 turrets.

For the rest:
Shields+Armor: somewhat better than Republic
Speed: nearly double
Weapons: 1000 Seeker Modules have at least the damage of 2000 Torpedoes, and with an equivalent 50 Launchers they pump that damage out faster (as each unit does more, and units fire same speed). You also have the Drill Bombs, which can apparently do a lot of damage to armor with one bomb (I've never seen even a relative value, but it seems to be one-two shot(s) kill), and the TLRTs, which the Republic has nothing to match. Tractors may not do damage, but they can really screw up a ship. I'd have to say roughly 220,000,000 on this, a lot of which is based on the utterly overwhelming turrets. If you want to cut those by about half, it would fall to more in the 170-180 million range.

If anyone's wondering, systems like this, comparing every aspect to the most comparable ship I can find (and often others - I ran some of these numbers against the Macross also, and even a few against the Liberty without mentioning), is a reasonable amount of my pricing system.

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