David Weber's Honorverse

Oh yeah, I figured out how I'm going to pull off SD(P)s and BC(P)s. I'll using medium drones as missile pods, they will be mobile to simulate the effect of being towed (I dont think I can get them to actually follow the ship), but they will have a drone only pod missile that will fire 12 misssiles per pod in one salvo and have a reload rate of 5 minutes, so they can only used once each per battle.

Reserved

What I tried for class restrictions was the copy the restrictions over from the Weapons mounts, and instead of "Hull size must be at least 800kt" And flipped around the sign. However, this doesn't appear to work. It gives me the requirement in components, but I can place the Mini Alpha Node meant for Destroyer Hulls on Superdreadnaughts:

Mini Alpha Node:

Number Of Requirements := 2
Requirements Evaluation Availability := TRUE
Requirements Evaluation Allows Placement := TRUE
Requirements Evaluation Allows Usage := TRUE
Requirement 1 Description := Empire must have at least tech level 1 in Quantum Engines.
Requirement 1 Formula := Get_Empire_Tech_Level("Quantum Engines") >= (1 + ([%Level%] - 1))
Requirement 2 Description := The vehicle size must be at most 100kT.
Requirement 2 Formula := Get_Vehicle_Size_Tonnage()
(less than/equal to 100, forum wont let me post in that format)

I think the problem is somewhere in the 3 Requirements Evaluation lines, but I don't know which setting its supposed to be.

Default settings are
AND
TRUE
TRUE.

EDIT: Did it, the Requirements have to be set to
Requirements Evaluation Availability := 1
Requirements Evaluation Allows Placement := 2
Requirements Evaluation Allows Usage := 2
for it to pop an error when your tonnage exceeds or fails to meet requirement.

Lol, I don't see that happening in canon Weberverse Randall. XD
In starfire, an SD massed like what? 2 Megatons? Eighth Fleet at the end of at all costs would rape any other navy in space.

Quick Update:
Done with most of the components, I need to test if the class restrictions actually work. Map is still only 10% done, because the Genesis map editor doesnt work for me for some reason, and I had to use an older one. All the vehicle classes have been resized, need to spend some time figuring out the correct acceleration values. The sidewall penetration system is in place. Depending on the weapon, it will be assigned a penetration value of "Superficial", "Light", or "Heavy". Superficial will do some damage past lighter sidewalls and armor, but will barely scratch past a ship of the wall's sidewalls.

Due to my inexperience with the SE:V mod system, the first released version will probably just use the stock shipsets. I've revised the overall scope to cover multiple David Weber universes. Reason being: There is no way to effectively simulate impellar wedges and sidewalls, hence denying the infamous up the kilt and down the throat shots that would set the tactical situation dramatically in your favor.

The gameplay will probably be more similar to his Starfire series with the Humans, Orions, and the Arachnid Bugs, but with tech trees, components, and other little things that were based on Honorverse technology.

Update: Done with beta 1 version of modding the components. The missile pods work now, in fact, they work really, really, REALLY (give or take a really) well. There is no way im going to be able to implement them in the numbers in the books. For 2 reasons:

1. There is no way for point defense to even remotly keep up with that kind of missile shower. (And a superdreadnaughts point defense is quite ridiculously heavy [8x Laser Nexus which fires long range beams with .4 second reload, and alot of other goodies like countermissiles]. SDs still die in about 2 salvos from pods, while this is epicly awesome for fleet battles, I don't see a fleet battle happening without a massive improvement in the game engine and computing power. While this is true in Honorverse (ie. pods rape all), its impractical for a mod since whoever gets alot of pods can omgwtfbbqpwn the other person in whatever fleet engagement that there are pods present on only one side.

2. Hardware limitations: I'm running a pretty nice machine, and even with 4 Pod Superdrednaughts built pretty close to the specs given in books (rolls 30 some pods every 12 seconds), my game started lagging tremendously by the time the pod salvos were in space.

I think that's more of a game engine problem than my computer (trying to implement that kind of scale is like Supreme Commander is, and even under big battles, my computer doesn't hiccup and lag as much as on SE:V).

So what I'll have to take a non-canon turn with it and decrease the amount of pods rolled as well as the frequency of the pod drops if I want to make missile pods a viable

Ok, here's a slightly simplified version of the official physics:

Ships are driven through space via 2 methods. The "Engine" on large starships is called an "Alpha Node" that in N-space, generates 2 enormously powerful bands of stressed gravity above and below the ship that are open in the bow and aft, with the bow opening being about 3 times "deeper", making it a wonderful tactical option to "cross your enemy's T". Essentially, a warship has no energy defense directly ahead or behind it (excluding Shrike and Ferret LAC Bow-walls and Stern Walls). In hyperspace, these 2 wedges reconfigure into Warshawski Sails, allowing the ship to ride the gravity waves between stars in several "bands" of hyperspace. The impeller bands themselves are impenetrable to any known weapon and cannot be seen through. They are essentially 2 bands of space where gravity goes from 0 to several hundred thousand G's in a few milimeters.

Less powerful bands called Sidewalls are generated by warships between the 2 impeller bands on the port and starboard surfaces, and are significantly weaker than the impellers, but depending on the strength, can weaken or partially deflect incoming weapons fire.

Limitations: You can't just stick a bunch of engines on a ship and give it ridiculous speed for 2 reasons:
1. Particle Shielding efficiency, Military grade shielding allows for travel at ~.7c in N-space. The same velocity in hyper, but since hyper is essentially warped N-space, that translates to an effective velocity of many hundred C on the upper bands.
2. Inertial Compensators: IC tech limits how fast a ship can accelerate to .7c without killing the crew. Smaller ships generally have more efficient compensators and can accelerate much faster than capital ships.

Implementation in SE:V

There is no way to provide the direction shielding, so what I'm doing is giving the Alpha Nodes (Engines) a huge shield generation ability, but they will be very weak shields, in the sense that they will only stop about 30% of incoming fire (Since the enemy will be trying NOT to hit your impellers, concentrating on your sidewalls). And providing additional "Sidewall Generators" that can stop a much larger percentage of fire, but can deplete fairly quickly, especially in energy range, or in a missile pod engagement.
Armor will Also be fairly leaky.

As said, I implemented the missile pods, but having multiple Pod-Naughts in space results in a ridiculous amounts of lag. So I may need to figure some way around that one.

All ships will be limited to a set speed (currently 12 hex for military vessels, 8-10 for civilians, but this may change). Military vessels recieve a 1.5 multiplier to speed in combat, with acceleration values determined by ship class.

Missile size have been cut down signicantly to allow more to be fit per ship, and come in several versions, with larger versions being more powerful, and having better ECM to dodge counterfire.

Energy range duels tend to get lethal very, very quickly, whereas with missiles, ships can fight to a standstill if they are well managed and adequatly protected by point defense.