Space Combat Challenge (make spaceships and fight them with other player's ships)

[Sidestrafe2462]

So, I was messing around for the Naval Battles! (Defeat other player ships) Challenge (its awesome, check it out) and I built a space battleship but couldn't find a place to put it. So this happened! 

Rules:

Stock Battles: Start battles at about 5km distance in Kerbin orbit, combat is turn based with each ship in a fleet getting a turn in a Team A1-B1-A2-B2-A3-B3 fashion. NO INFINITE FUEL/ELECTRICITY!!!

BDA battles: to be added, though it seems that high Gilly orbit should work 

Edited December 14, 2017 by Sidestrafe2462

[Dimas152]

>tfw u want to make a space-combat challangeand someone did it first

[Piatzin]

2 minutes ago, [INDO]dimas_1502 said:

>tfw u want to make a space-combat challangeand someone did it first

I think it's inactive though, and quite old

[Dimas152]

1 minute ago, Earthlinger said:

I think it's inactive though, and quite old

i mean i want to make this kind of challenge but someone did it first

[Piatzin]

12 minutes ago, [INDO]dimas_1502 said:

i mean i want to make this kind of challenge but someone did it first

Oh okay, my bad

About the rules: I think we should do non-stock weapons, because otherwise, those of us with not so good computers (AKA me...) won't be able to participate. BDA's torpedoes seem like they might work, but we'd have to do some testing.

Just some thoughts..

[Dimas152]

yeah if only HE-KV 1 got fixed, destroying other spacecrafts would be easier
btw how about adding Mun rover combat? 

[Piatzin]

7 hours ago, [INDO]dimas_1502 said:

btw how about adding Mun rover combat? 

Or low gravity combat in general

Fighting in orbit/space is tricky because of all the, well, space, and it's hard to coordinate attacks, so I think it might....be easier to just.....idk

[Sidestrafe2462]

anything not on kerbin will work XD

[MiffedStarfish]

SPACE WARSHIPS, YOU SAY!?

Look in my sig and you’ll find out why I’m excited. 

Also please please please make it stock weapons.

[Piatzin]

45 minutes ago, MiffedStarfish said:

Also please please please make it stock weapons.

Mebbe both...? (As in, two categories...?)

EDIT: If I make something with no armour, then the part count would be manageable

Edited December 12, 2017 by Earthlinger

[Dimas152]

ayy gonna make some T-34s for mun

[SuicidalInsanity]

For actual space combat, High Gilly orbit would likely work best. Orbital speeds are around 8m/s so BDA guns (if used) will behave normally, and spawning ships in via the Alt-f12 SetOrbit command with LPE at 0, and opposing forces with LPE = 20 sets things a nice ~40 km apart from each other if you want missile/laser duels, or a tense charging in to slug it out with cannon. Of note, BDA weapon managers will happily fire on targets 30+ km away if guns/lasers have been configured to have that sort of max range (and the craft has means of seeing/detecting the target).

[MiffedStarfish]

The problem with that is that the slightest bump administered by kinetics would knock the ship out of orbit. This has happened to people ships in a battling thread I participate in.

[drtricky]

Do battleship guns fire in space? Never fought a space battle before.

[Piatzin]

7 hours ago, SuicidalInsanity said:

For actual space combat, High Gilly orbit would likely work best

I've never been to Gilly. But I hear trying to land on it is hilarious.

Sadly, one can't say the same thing for Eve....

[SuicidalInsanity]

Quick and dirty space battle with some stuff I threw together in an hour or so, mainly to test things and see if they work, so ships are not optimized and weapons haven't had any sort of damage or balance testing.

Stuff started out in high Gilly orbit. InfiniteFuel and Electricity were used, so dV wasn't an issue, custom weapons have Bulletdrop and recoil disabled; cannon muzzle velocity is 7.5km/s.

 

[Joseph Kerman]

I'd love to join, but 1.3.1 won't want to come to me.

[Sidestrafe2462]

theres already more people here than I ever thought there would be XD

[Sidestrafe2462]

@SuicidalInsanity where did you get those weapons??

[Piatzin]

42 minutes ago, Sidestrafe2462 said:

theres already more people here than I ever thought there would be XD

Well it's a fun challenge. (Though it's not really a challenge per se, more of a group game sort of thing.....)

[obney kerman]

I am working on a design for a battlecruiser/carrier, and I might post it here for battle testing.

EDIT: If you're wondering, it's completely stock.

Edited December 14, 2017 by obney kerman

[Piatzin]

I will try to stage a mock battle between my own craft (which I will build sometime....soon....) to test conditions in Minmus

[Sidestrafe2462]

Challenge part: STOCK Space Tanks

On 12/13/2017 at 1:23 PM, MiffedStarfish said:

The problem with that is that the slightest bump administered by kinetics would knock the ship out of orbit. This has happened to people ships in a battling thread I participate in.

what battle thread?

[Sidestrafe2462]

The HE-KV missiles actually work in space, but they break on kerbin

[SuicidalInsanity]

9 hours ago, Sidestrafe2462 said:

where did you get those weapons??

They're custom weapons I hacked together via some .cfg edits and models cannibalized from an old project I never finished, which is why they were all untextured. If people are interested and/or have Space! weapon requests they'd like to see for this, I could get them fleshed out and assembled into a custom weapons pack.

Edited December 15, 2017 by SuicidalInsanity