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Suggestions / Limit fighters on ships to ship basis
« on: November 22, 2018, 08:32:11 AM »
For example, I want a ship that can only mount fighters, but not bombers.
If something like that does not exist, it should. An easy way to implement would be to add a column to the ships (hangar_size) and a column to the wing/fighter (fighter_size)
Those would be numerical values that would determine what fightercraft can be mounted.
1 - light fighter
2 - medium fighter
3 - heavy fighter
4 - bomber
5 - heavy bomber
6 - ultraheavy bomber
7 - insanity, etc...
So a carrier that has a hangar size of 5 can carry anything up to (and including) that size - any wing with a value of 5 and lower would be allowed.
Something like this would be useful to truly differentiate between purpose-built military carriers ad conversions and also to differentiate between sizes and complexity of hangars. Obviously accommodating a 15 meter fighter is not the same as accommodating a 50 meter bomber - the volume/mass difference alone and the size of hangar doors would be an issue.
If you want to go even further, the actual number of wings/fighter could be affected by volume - we have historical examples of carrier that carried different number of craft, depending on size (one us carrier managed to launch heavier bombers, but carried only a handful)
If something like that does not exist, it should. An easy way to implement would be to add a column to the ships (hangar_size) and a column to the wing/fighter (fighter_size)
Those would be numerical values that would determine what fightercraft can be mounted.
1 - light fighter
2 - medium fighter
3 - heavy fighter
4 - bomber
5 - heavy bomber
6 - ultraheavy bomber
7 - insanity, etc...
So a carrier that has a hangar size of 5 can carry anything up to (and including) that size - any wing with a value of 5 and lower would be allowed.
Something like this would be useful to truly differentiate between purpose-built military carriers ad conversions and also to differentiate between sizes and complexity of hangars. Obviously accommodating a 15 meter fighter is not the same as accommodating a 50 meter bomber - the volume/mass difference alone and the size of hangar doors would be an issue.
If you want to go even further, the actual number of wings/fighter could be affected by volume - we have historical examples of carrier that carried different number of craft, depending on size (one us carrier managed to launch heavier bombers, but carried only a handful)