Subject: Ship Ram damage
pierre-louis constantine [email removed] was asking how to handle
ship to ship collisions.
My suggestion would be to simplify the physics into a two body collision at
right angles. In that case the 10 ton fighter would have about 8,820,000,000
kilo Joules of Kinetic energy to disperse. Compare with equivilent laser
damage and you're right. That would hurt!
for the curious: Kinetic Energy = .5*m*v*v
m=mass in Kg 1 ton = 1000Kg
v=velocity in m/s
also 1 Joule = 1 kg * m * m / ( s * s)
thats 1 kilogram meter squared per second squared.
Overly simplified but should give a ball park figure.
Also missiles are now X-ray laser weapons not kinetic kill weapons. (see
reasoning in Challange 71 )
Maybe a particle beam is a better model for distributing collision damage?
John Bucsek [email removed]