Proposal for reactor 1

ergo · Post by **ergo** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 9:46 pm

As in topic, this is my take on reactors... yes i know... i just cant do anything nice unfortunately :/ but this should be better than what is there now.

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ps i had a hard drive failure so i dont have any models for my previous work , tru to secure it so it wont get lost

Post by **dandandaman** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 3:55 am

sweet

Nicko · Post by **Nicko** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 10:01 am

Cool, but it seems a bit old.
However, what kind of reactor is this supposed to be (fission, fusion, antimatter, whatever...)?
It appears as a fission reactor in an uncommon position (they're vertical, right?)
But, again, that's good...

ergo · Post by **ergo** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 12:38 pm

Nicko wrote:]\

However, what kind of reactor is this supposed to be (fission, fusion, antimatter, whatever...)?

its a whatever reactor

Nicko wrote: It appears as a fission reactor in an uncommon position (they're vertical, right?)
But, again, that's good...

i doubt if horizontal or vertical has any sense in 0 grav

Nicko · Post by **Nicko** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 6:08 pm

I asked because in the upgrade description, the ship reactors are described as fusion reactors...

Energy production, the friendly fusion way.

EDIT Pictures in current SVN do not resemble a fusion reactor, too, maybe this is not important...

ergo · Post by **ergo** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 8:35 pm

naaa... its a sci-fi game, i dont think if it should bear too much resemblace to real life, it woul d be boring then

Silverain · Post by **Silverain** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 8:50 am

Re: Ship Reactors
Unless JackS has changed story background while I was away, ship's reactors are fusion reactors - being the second best energy production/energy efficient system we can imagine (the best is antimatter, but for safety reasons it is best not to put AM reactors on ships that will land in stations/on planets, since loss of control over an AM reactor would likely cause extreme widespread devastation, much moreso than loss of control over a fusion reactor...)

Re: Old Pics
Most of the pics Zeog has uploaded consist of artwork copied/edited/pasted together from freely available pictures on the 'net. Basically, they were cobbled together so that we had something - anything - to appear rather than a blank space. My original intentions here was for such pics to be replaced by original artwork over time. So don't stop, Ergo, whatever you do.

naaa... its a sci-fi game, i dont think if it should bear too much resemblace to real life, it woul d be boring then

True to a point, but we still base a lot of VS tech theory based on current real world theory (see the various posts about believability and suspension of disbelief).

As to the pic itself, considering these reactor's are supposed to be the commonplace powerplant of all spacecraft (barring the occasional AM reactor - see MoI canon), I would imagine a NEW reactor purchased on the market would look... cleaner, more up-to-date. The 'pitting' of the metal casing just doesn't sit right to my eyes.

Hmm, even if it doesn't suit as a ship's reactor, might still be useable as a cargo powerplant (if we still have them, haven't checked yet), and original artwork is always welcome in all forms...

ergo · Post by **ergo** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 6:47 pm

no problem, i thought that maybe the reactor 1 could be an old "refurbrished" model and every better model would look nicer and nicer

maybe i will assemble something new soon

charlieg · Post by **charlieg** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 11:23 pm

It's a cool model; even if it's not deemed suitable as a reactor then surely another usage can be found?

rigelan · Post by **rigelan** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 12:20 am

It looks like it'd be a pretty clean hot-water tank. I'd want to take a shower with that thing holding all the water.

Oblivion · Post by **Oblivion** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 5:57 am

byootiful.

tho I agree that it doesn't fit with being a reactor..

a reactor should be like your earlier capacitator and shield generator models.. clean and shiny and glowy.

but it's too pretty to throw away..

hmm..

besides a cargo powerplant, it could be... a

hazardous materials containment tank..

fuel tanks (umm.. petrochemicals or some other more "primitive" fuel?)

how about as a pic for one of the shady mechanic's toys?

i dunno if that exists in the cargo-image-to-be-filled-list, tho.

Silverain and Zeog know best on these stuff.

@Silverain

Most of the pics Zeog has uploaded consist of artwork copied/edited/pasted together from freely available pictures on the 'net

haha. I just found out that our bartenders are immigrants from Freedroid.

Nicko · Post by **Nicko** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 7:17 pm

@Silverain
Quote:
Most of the pics Zeog has uploaded consist of artwork copied/edited/pasted together from freely available pictures on the 'net

haha. I just found out that our bartenders are immigrants from Freedroid.

and the "beam" guns are more similar to an M61 vulcan cannon than to any kind of energy weapon I could imagine, (not to mention radars...)

Also, an this is funny, Afterburners = reactor + reactor capacitance, which don't make any sense.

hmm... maybe we need to discuss about the afterburner thing, because I can't figure out how to put an AB after something which is not a Jet engine...

Silverain · Post by **Silverain** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:57 pm

Nicko wrote:
@Silverain
Quote:
Most of the pics Zeog has uploaded consist of artwork copied/edited/pasted together from freely available pictures on the 'net

haha. I just found out that our bartenders are immigrants from Freedroid.
and the "beam" guns are more similar to an M61 vulcan cannon than to any kind of energy weapon I could imagine, (not to mention radars...)

Also, an this is funny, Afterburners = reactor + reactor capacitance, which don't make any sense.

hmm... maybe we need to discuss about the afterburner thing, because I can't figure out how to put an AB after something which is not a Jet engine...

<feeling of being looked at, dead centre in a set of crosshairs as the big spotlight shines on me>

Don't recall the source, but basically yes, weapon pics I cobbled together long ago from gun pics, and the AB/reactor/capacitance thing was a space capsul if I recall

The whole upgrades section came about as an aside when I was gathering cargo pics (lots of trawling freepic places).

Hence, loving the artwork from Ergo, Dirty Magic, I think even a couple from PeteyG if memory serves (and a few others too), but more is welcome. Hence my comment that even if Ergo's pic above doesn't serve as originally envisioned, it WILL get used elsewhere.

As a side note, I think we do have models and textures of weapons in the directories somewhere, which are generated on the weapon hardpoints of ships. If this is true, then we should take a snapshot of the weapon model in a modelling program and use that instead - never could figure out the modelling programs with limited time available though...

P.S. Check the canon in the wiki, but pretty sure we have dropped the whole 'Afterburner' idea (with its relationship to jet engines, propellant etc). It is now 'Overdrive' with a different theoretical operation (still gives same effect though

).

Post by **loki1950** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 1:29 am

and the new Shaddy Mechanic upgrades for other tweaks

Enjoy the Choice

Post by **klauss** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 3:44 pm

An ION-ish engine "afterburner" would be pushing the engine above it's optimum-efficiency range. It consumes a lot more power and, for comparatively less push gain. Think VASIMR^2.

You'd potentially need to make some modifications to the engine for that - some engines are designed with the optimum range in mind, and pushing it outside that range might break it - the AB modification could, therefore, permit the operation within acceptable safety parameters.

Or... better said... <bleh> sci-fi.

ergo · Post by **ergo** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 1:28 am

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so maybe these new reactor models would be more suitable for use ??

ergo · Post by **ergo** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 2:20 am

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a bigger reactor

Post by **jackS** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 6:55 am

Phlogios · Post by **Phlogios** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 11:43 am

Nice!

Post by **dandandaman** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 12:40 pm

sweet

Phlogios · Post by **Phlogios** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 1:46 pm

"Check out my brand-new chromed fusion-reactor yo!" X)

mortaneous · Post by **mortaneous** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 8:35 pm

I hate to use silly memes, but... VTEC just kicked in, Yo!!
Very nice, they look complicated and powerful.

ergo · Post by **ergo** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 1:04 am

im very happy you like it....

so have another one...

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rigelan · Post by **rigelan** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 3:18 am

I'm trying to understand the picture. Did you just stick the single engines in a twisted metal bar askew to each other? I really like the chromed look, by the way.

pheldens · Post by **pheldens** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 8:03 am

This reactor looks fine to me, people should look more to whether something is an improvement over the old stuff or not, and put it in svn when so.

Fusion reactors of this size and yield do not yet exist, so there's nothing to compare this to.