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You have my deepest sympathies, mate.

Thanks..
My sister raised a bratty tech addict. He's not even 3 yet and he's addicted to movies, phone+computer games cause my sister does the 'distract the child to have more time to self' way of mothering. I always have to fix something and find my tablet pen after they leave. Occasionally mourn loss of written or drawn things. =.=
The other one's just under 1yr, so not too much trouble, but he's starting to walk and tries to grab and eat everything.

So, we have character profiles. Anyone think we should consider vehicle / spaceship profiles, too?

I AGREE

If anyone quotes this post, do not quote the tables with it! Thanks!


Well ... how technical do you want to get? xD
Because we can get pretty granular. Here's a sample weapon table:

Name: [Weapon Name]
Description: [Weapon Description]

Classification: [Primary | Secondary | Tertiary]
Type: [Ballistic | Beam | Flak | Laser | Missile]
Base Damage: Integer

[0-1X] Armor Damage Multiplier
[0-1X] Shield Damage Multiplier
[0-1X] Subsystem Damage Multiplier
Lifetime: (seconds)
Range: (meters)
Rate of Fire: (shots per second)
Velocity: (meters per second)
Flags: (Anti-Aircraft, Bypass, Capital, Corkscrew, Direct-Fire, Dumb-Fire, EMP, Homing, Kinetic, Painter, Piercing, Shockwave, Shotgun, Slashing, Swarm)

And filled out with arbitrary values for a long-range cannon:

Name: Vaishnavastra-B
Description: Extended range anti-subsystem mass driver.

Classification: Primary
Type: Ballistic
Base Damage: 2 500

1.00X Armor Damage
0.25X Shield Damage
1.00X Subsystem Damage
Lifetime: Infinite
Range: 20 000 meters
Rate of Fire: 0.20 shots per second
Velocity: 5 000 meters per second
Flags:

Capital
Kinetic
Piercing

And you have a similar table for ships, with max speed, acceleration, turning rate, arbitrary value for armor strength, arbitrary value for shield strength, and attach a list of these weapons to it. Or you can make separate tables too for armor types, shields, sensors, and engines to make for even more granular data but also way better organization.
Example ship table:

Name:
Classification:
Manufactured By:

Armor Strength: (arbitrary value)
Fighter Bay: [Yes | No]
FTL Drive: [(Capsule Drive | Jump Drive | Subspace Drive) | Hyper Drive | None | Warp Drive ]
Length: (meters)
Max Angular Acceleration: (degrees per second squared)
Max Angular Speed: (degrees per second)
Max Linear Acceleration: (meters per second squared)
Max Linear Speed: (meters per second)
Shield Strength: (arbitrary value)
Subsystem List: (Subsystem Name : Location on Ship : Armor Strength)
Weapon List: (Weapon Name : Mount Point : Tracking [No | Yes] : Tracking Speed (degrees per second) : Firing Arc)

Filled out for an example ship:

Name: Aryastangamarga
Classification: Destroyer
Manufactured By: Madjai Special Projects

Armor Strength: 165 000
Fighter Bay: Yes
FTL Drive: Jump Drive
Length: 3 260 meters
Max Angular Acceleration: 10 degrees per second squared
Max Angular Speed: 30 degrees per second
Max Linear Acceleration: 14 meters per second squared
Max Linear Speed: 70 meters per second
Shield Strength: 40 000
Subsystem List: (Subsystem Name : Location on Ship : Armor Strength) Too lazy.
Weapon List:

Vaishnavastra-B : Port Middle : No :: Fore
Vaishnavastra-B : Port Ventral : No :: Fore
Vaishnavastra-B : Starboard Middle : No :: Fore
Vaishnavastra-B : Starboard Ventral : No :: Fore

Then ship battles just become math.
But holy s**t is it a lot of initial work.

Okay. rofl
Did you have any ideas?

Haidere.

>u >;


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