Jump Drive Efficiency Question

[robject]

Sigg, I did this with a broader brush.

IMTU,

Jump drives for vessels from 10-99 tons become available at TL16.

Jump fuel requirements are halved at TL17.

Jump drives for vessels from 1-9 tons become available at TL18.

Jump fuel requirements are halved again at TL19.

 

[Sifu Blackirish]

robject, you are going in the direction I was headed with my modification.

IMTU once beyond standard TL, both sub 100-ton jump craft AND large craft are doable. And whoeer said it, G-space FTL is an analog system, which explains the lessening fuel usage as TL advances.

 

[Tobias]

I have used the following idea (for TL 15-): You can install a jump drive in whatever vessel you like, but the minimum size, fuel and energy requirements will be the same as for a 100-ton-vessel. So the limit is because of the technical feasibility of smaller drives. I'd also assume that the first jump drives were rather larger and somewhat mismatched to the smaller vessels which are typical of lower TLs.

Regards,

Tobias

 

[mike wightman]

Hmm, so a 50t cutter with a jump module fitted would require a 2-7ton jump drive and require 10-60t of jump fuel depending on drive performance - thus realistically limitied to jump 2 without the use of drop tanks

Using CT drives instead you could fit a model A jump drive and 20t of fuel.

That's quite a good idea Tobias, I like it

 

[robject]

That is clever, Tobias. That's also a nice way to preserve the j-drive volume table in Book 2.

 

[daryen]

Originally posted by Aramis:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by daryen:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Aramis:
WHomever posted the MT fuel Regime forgot that the baseline in MT AND TNE is not 10% of hull, but 5xJDriveVolume.

Which works out to be the exact same thing. So the statement was correct. </font>[/QUOTE]No, it is NOT the same.
It only matches at J1
J formula is (1+Jn) %</font>[/QUOTE]I had said that the MT/TNE jump drive tonage was (5% of hull tonnage x jump number) plus 5% of hull tonnage. That is exactly the same as 5 x jump drive volume.

This does gives a baseline of 10% of hull tonage for J1. (And an additional 5% of hull tonage for each jump after that.) For TL16 and below, that all gives the same numbers no matter how you slice it.

I have never stated that MT and TNE use CT's 10% of hull volume x jump number. I have no idea how you got that idea.

My point is just that whether you express the formula as 5x jump drive volume or (5% x jump drive number) plus 5%, you end up the the exact same results.