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Balance: Deployable/Relay Antennas #827
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Hi, sorry for late response. You are right that RA-15 and RA-100 are less attractive than their counterparts, with the only advantage of higher cone angle.
How about these RA-15 and RA-100 changes below to be more comparable to the counterparts in range and better in cone angle and drain rate? I want to avoid break players' existing comm networks i.e. better range and/or lower cost without having to rebuild.
Antenna Cost Mass
(tons)Atmosphere
safeCone angle
(degree)Range (Mm) Power Drain
(charge/s)HG-5 High Gain Antenna 600 0.070 No 90.000 20.00 0.55 Communotron DTS-M1 900 0.050 No 45.000 50.00 0.82 Reflectron KR-7 800 0.050 Yes 25.000 90.00 0.82 RA-2 Relay Antenna 1,800 0.150 Yes 12.500 200.00 1.15 RA-15 Relay Antenna 2,400 0.300 Yes 0.250 10,000.00
20,000.001.10
0.95Communotron HG-55 1,200 0.075 No 0.120 25,000.00 1.04 Communotron 88-88 1,500 0.100 No 0.060 40,000.00 0.93 Reflectron KR-14 2,000 0.200 Yes 0.040 60,000.00 0.93 RA-100 Relay Antenna 3,000 0.650 Yes 0.025 100,000.00
250,000.001.10 CommTech-1 9,500 0.300 Yes 0.006 350,000.00 2.60 Reflectron GX-128 11,000 0.240 No 0.005 400,000.00 2.80 - added a commit that references this issue
on Jun 19, 2021
Hi all. I've noticed that with RemoteTech there is a change to the way the stock antennas are balanced. Since all antennas now behave the same-- i.e. are capable of acting as relays-- The balance between the stock deployable and relay antennas is strange. It seems like there is no reason to use the stock relay antennas (R5, R50, R100) versus their deployable counterparts, which are cheaper, lighter, and, in some cases, higher range. I've edited my version of RT so that the (R50) relay dish has 25Gm of range instead of 10, and the deployable version (HighGainAntenna) has 10Gm instead of 25, and plan to play for a bit to see if that's a good balance; I'll report back later. My apologies If I've missed a balancing feature that addresses this already-- feel free to close the issue in that case.