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Thin Plate Comparison
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So each thin plate is 1 voxel thick - Which means that for every full block on the left, the player could have instead built 16 thin plate blocks on the right.
However, volume scales at an even more insane rate. Imagine a 3x3x3 solid block cube. This space has a surface area of 54 square meters, and an internal storage capacity of 1 cubic meter. Ramp that up to the same volume of metal in thin plate, and you get a surface area of nearly 14,000 square meters, with an internal storage capacity of somewhere around 100,000 cubic meters.
I also intend to create a medium plate, with 4-8 voxels of protection.
And lest you think this is a paltry amount of protection - One voxel is roughly 2.5 inches. By this measure, a Humvee uses around 1 voxel of protection, a light tank uses about 2 voxels of protection, and a heavy tank uses about 5 voxels of protection. And that's just steel, not the exotic materials you guys have access to.
Cheers,
-Dirk
20 inch thick titanium armor? Hell yes!
Intriguing... I *had* thought the thin and medium plating a paltry amount of protection. When you put it in perspective, that is a pretty thick plate of armor though.
Still, I won't stop using my multiple-meter-thick hull design until I've seen what the game's weapons will do to different materials!
How About Different Layers of Thin Plates :D
You can put them together then 1 block is made of Titanium, steel and so on. On the top is defens against Kinectik, deeper is defens against Lasers.
ow yea :D
That is an interesting idea! Right now the block-based build system prevents this, though, as every piece in the game is placed on a meter grid. If you were able to build at non-standard distances, that would skew the grid.
Still, I like that idea though. If there is any way to build at intervals other than one meter without messing everything up, I think it might be worthwhile.
I see it could screw with the temperature flow simulation too much to be worthwile, though. I could imagine having "alloys", though. If you wanted a strong armor material especially resistant to lasers, you could combine 65% titanium, 30% chromium and 5% tungsten.