Bowfin fighter for Kaluri/CIW

[nozmajner]

Bowfin fighter, about the CIW counterpart of the Kanara. Relatively low deltaV but good acceleration. Small capacity, even smaller cargo hold. A ship of tradeoffs for the player, which ought to make it interesting.
Next: I want to turn this ship into the CIW police craft, but that needs texturing.

[laarmen]

I'm not really good at physics, but aren't acceleration and delta-V basically the same thing? How can one be low and the other one good? Looks nice anyway :)

[fluffyfreak]

@laarmen I had to look that up too :)

[impaktor]

[laarmen]

So delta-v would be some kind of "bang-for-your-buck" measure akin to the fuel efficiency?

[nozmajner]

Yupp, something like that. The larger the deltaV, the faster you will go in the end, even with miliG accelerations, so it gets you there sooner. I usually translate this to range in my head, like you don't want to go too far with a low deltaV ship, because it might taake months, instead of days in a another ship. This why the Lunar shuttle has lower deltaV.
And acceleration doesn't matter too much for this, at least on interplanetary ranges. (Once I got a day or so shorter trip with a lower thrust sinonatrix, but same deltaVwhen I was doing some stats comparison.)

[laarmen]

So, a fighter would need a powerful acceleration, but not so much a high
delta-V, right? Since they don't need to be good at interplanetary travels,
they usually hang around one specific spot.

On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 7:06 AM, Szlrd notifications@github.com wrote:

Yupp, something like that. The larger the deltaV, the faster you will go
in the end, even with miliG accelerations, so it gets you there sooner. I
usually translate this to range in my head, like you don't want to go too
far with a low deltaV ship, because it might taake months, instead of days
in a another ship. This why the Lunar shuttle has lower deltaV.
And acceleration doesn't matter too much for this, at least on
interplanetary ranges. (Once I got a day or so shorter trip with a lower
thrust sinonatrix, but same deltaVwhen I was doing some stats comparison.)

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[nozmajner]

Yupp, that's the idea