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Title: Neptune Class Destroyer, Concept Art
Post by: WarpStar on October 23, 2001, 03:59:00 pm: This is a destroyer for Independence War 2 when the SDK is released. Anyone have any suggestions for improvements and such?

(http://216.133.168.75/images/neptuneconcept.jpg)

Thanks.

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Title: Neptune Class Destroyer, Concept Art
Post by: wEvil on October 23, 2001, 04:19:00 pm: its' a nice peice of concept sketching.

why a deuterium shield on the front though?

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Title: Neptune Class Destroyer, Concept Art
Post by: WarpStar on October 23, 2001, 04:27:00 pm: Thanks dude! It's a deuterium screen. It collects materials for the Fusion Reactors.

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Title: Neptune Class Destroyer, Concept Art
Post by: wEvil on October 23, 2001, 04:39:00 pm: the density of hydrogen alone in space isnt high enough for that, sadly.

But who cares, its fiction (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)

when do we get to see the model?

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Title: Neptune Class Destroyer, Concept Art
Post by: WarpStar on October 23, 2001, 05:04:00 pm: Once someone wants to do it. I'm not too good at modelling (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)

The screen would be for something like the Efreet.

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Title: Neptune Class Destroyer, Concept Art
Post by: Eishtmo on October 23, 2001, 06:52:00 pm: Quote
Originally posted by wEvil:
The density of hydrogen alone in space isnt high enough for that, sadly.

For something that small, perhaps. But if you use a Bussard Ram Scoop (which uses magnetic fields), the density of hydrogen is more than high enough.

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Title: Neptune Class Destroyer, Concept Art
Post by: Shrike on October 23, 2001, 08:56:00 pm: Doubtful. Interstellar H gas is about one atom per cubic meter. That means you'll have to vaccum up some 10^14 cubic kilometers of vaccum just to get one kilo of Hydrogen gas. Granted you'll have better densities in a solar system, but still, not enough to make it worthwhile unless you're going at C-fractional velocity.
Title: Neptune Class Destroyer, Concept Art
Post by: NeoHunter on October 23, 2001, 10:34:00 pm: The name "Neptune-class" is copyright of NeoHunter. Hehehe.......nah. Just joking. Just that it shares the same name as my not so good looking cruiser.

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Title: Neptune Class Destroyer, Concept Art
Post by: WarpStar on October 23, 2001, 10:45:00 pm: Heheh, sorry. It's only the first name I came up with.

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Title: Neptune Class Destroyer, Concept Art
Post by: Crazy_Ivan80 on October 24, 2001, 02:50:00 am: Quote
Originally posted by Shrike:
Doubtful. Interstellar H gas is about one atom per cubic meter. That means you'll have to vaccum up some 10^14 cubic kilometers of vaccum just to get one kilo of Hydrogen gas. Granted you'll have better densities in a solar system, but still, not enough to make it worthwhile unless you're going at C-fractional velocity.

but the ram scoops are supposed to BIG
Title: Neptune Class Destroyer, Concept Art
Post by: Setekh on October 24, 2001, 04:48:00 am: You drew that? Hot damn, that's sweet! Can't wait for someone to model it. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
Title: Neptune Class Destroyer, Concept Art
Post by: WarpStar on October 24, 2001, 07:30:00 am: Quote
Originally posted by Setekh:
You drew that? Hot damn, that's sweet! Can't wait for someone to model it. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)

Hehehe, yeah. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif) Thanks man. Maybe someone with good modelling skillz will take it up (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)

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Title: Neptune Class Destroyer, Concept Art
Post by: Shrike on October 24, 2001, 12:39:00 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Crazy_Ivan80:
but the ram scoops are supposed to BIG

I'd say so. To get more hydrogen than you're burning, you'd need scoops the size of a bloody orbital, for something the mass of a GTVA capital ship.
Title: Neptune Class Destroyer, Concept Art
Post by: Fulgrymm on October 24, 2001, 01:03:00 pm: Nice pic. Reminds me of a Battletech WarShip, but better.

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Originally posted by Crazy_Ivan80:
but the ram scoops are supposed to BIG
Only the magnetic field needs to be really big; it's not really necessary for the actual scoop to be physically large (though it does help).

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Title: Neptune Class Destroyer, Concept Art
Post by: Vertigo1 on October 24, 2001, 04:46:00 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Crazy_Ivan80:
but the ram scoops are supposed to BIG

The size of the Ramscoops won't do squat if there isn't enough hydrogen around to collect to keep the drives burning.

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Title: Neptune Class Destroyer, Concept Art
Post by: WarpStar on October 25, 2001, 01:05:00 am: Thanks for all the positive feedback guys! The next one is going to be a tug-class ship, one of the workhorses of shipbuilding (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)

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Title: Neptune Class Destroyer, Concept Art
Post by: Fineus on October 25, 2001, 02:29:00 am: So lots of dock ports are the order of the day (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif)
Title: Neptune Class Destroyer, Concept Art
Post by: NeoHunter on October 25, 2001, 03:53:00 am: Not to mention shipyards and freighters. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif)

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Title: Neptune Class Destroyer, Concept Art
Post by: WarpStar on October 25, 2001, 04:25:00 pm: Yea, great thing about the Flux Engine, multiple docking ports (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)

There's plenty of shipyard and freighter models already in the game, but look for some possible new ones (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)

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Title: Neptune Class Destroyer, Concept Art
Post by: CODEDOG ND on October 25, 2001, 05:42:00 pm: erm, it isn't too complex and I've been getting the hang of UV mapping, so I'll give it a shot. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
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Title: Neptune Class Destroyer, Concept Art
Post by: WarpStar on October 25, 2001, 07:05:00 pm: Sweet, I'll speak to you soon.

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