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Drop tanks: We make a simple ship with 200 Dt hull, J-3, and M-2. Add a 60 Dton drop tank: Apparently it consumes 60 Dton internal tonnage. The Finalise tab says: Apparently it does not take external tonnage, making the total tonnage larger, decreasing drive performance... The fuel tab...

If I add a 250 Dton Docking Space with 5 50 Dt Cutters, I get: I added five Cutters, but only get one: I can then assign five Cutters to the docking space in the Cargo tab: to get: And in the Finalise tab I get: Six Cutters in a docking space for five Cutters? BTW, it should be 5...

Med Bays takes 4 Dton, MCr 2, and 1 Power:

Weapons: Spinal: A basic meson spinal takes 7500 Dton, 75 hardpoints, 75 Gunners, and does 6D×1000 damage. A stage 2 meson spinal takes 15000 Dton, 150 hardpoints, 150 Gunners, and does 12D×1000 damage. At TL-15, three TLs higher than the initial TL-12 of a meson spinal, size is reduced by...

Let's build a cruiser (CL Valiant, HG p238) It should be: It does not cost triple. It does triple the cost of the sensor. As a separate system, it costs double the sensor.

Small craft don't need staterooms by default: Obviously I haven't allocated 9409 Dton fuel tanks...

Rounding error in drive size?

Every firmpoint can only mount one turret weapon, whether in a Fixed Mount or Single Turret. No triple Fixed Mounts on firmpoints, only single. Only single turrets on firmpoints: Power calculation is incorrect, always 75% power on firmpoints, and the turret takes one Power. Fixed Mounts...

Weapons: Bays and spinals should not be available to small craft. Barbettes should only be available if three firmpoints are free.

I can't afford to specify reaction fuel in full hours, turns of 1/10 h would be more convenient. There is no minimum specified, only a requirement per hour of use. Zero h is perfectly ok, if somewhat strange... A Reaction Drive act as a High Burn Thruster: the thrust is added. The Reaction...

Let's build a medium fighter (35 Dton): I want it to be fast: Power requirement is 31.5. Fractional Power is important for small craft.

Small craft does not require the same crew as a ship: A Pilot and possibly gunners are generally enough.

Build a Drone: Small Craft: Add a computer: Install Virtual Crew: Bridge/Cockpit should now be optional:

Cargo tab, Small craft allocation: Docking Space 2 is 17 Dton for a 15 Dton craft. It should not be able to contain several craft. It should not be able to contain a total of 17 Dt craft. From the Optional Systems tab, size of Docking Spaces defied correctly:

Detachable Bridge: Cost is wrong, presumably standard bridge cost +50%, based on size of ship not size of bridge. Size is questionable? A Detachable Bridge is a bridge, we don't need a standard bridge in addition: We should at least be able to deselect the standard bridge... Better would...