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Water transport ship
First of all, one of the most profitable items in the game seems to be purified water, which you can buy for 5 and sell for >20. Second of all, its useless because you can only carry 48 crates of it, bringing you a whopping profit of roughly 700 credits.
But why are we transporting water in crates? Wouldn't it be better to have an entire ship that could hold water, and only water, in a big 'tank' inside of its hold?
Now, to make this ship equivalent in profitability to certain other ships, we have to adjust the equivalent amount of water it can carry.
I figure that a good trading trip, with a Centaur carrying Luxury Goods for example, can make between 10,000c and 50,000c of profit for one trip without much problem. To get this much profit carrying purified water, you would have to transport between about 600 and 3300 crates worth of it.
So, I propose a new ship. A purified water transport ship. It has a special hold that can only hold water. The water is not carried in crates, just in a tank. And it will hold between roughly 1500 and 3000 crates worth of water.
Now, the only problem is that water weighs 100kg per crate. That means that 3000 crates worth of water would have a mass of 300,000kg.
That is OK though. This ship will have 3,000 N of Thrust. Since F=MA, it will have acceleration comparable to other ships. It's acceleration and top speed will be artificially limited, for safety reasons. You don't want the ship breaking apart in the middle of space because the water is sloshing around in there!
I think if you strip the wep bays out of a ragnarok, this might work. That thing looks like a bloated tic in the first place.
But why are we transporting water in crates? Wouldn't it be better to have an entire ship that could hold water, and only water, in a big 'tank' inside of its hold?
Now, to make this ship equivalent in profitability to certain other ships, we have to adjust the equivalent amount of water it can carry.
I figure that a good trading trip, with a Centaur carrying Luxury Goods for example, can make between 10,000c and 50,000c of profit for one trip without much problem. To get this much profit carrying purified water, you would have to transport between about 600 and 3300 crates worth of it.
So, I propose a new ship. A purified water transport ship. It has a special hold that can only hold water. The water is not carried in crates, just in a tank. And it will hold between roughly 1500 and 3000 crates worth of water.
Now, the only problem is that water weighs 100kg per crate. That means that 3000 crates worth of water would have a mass of 300,000kg.
That is OK though. This ship will have 3,000 N of Thrust. Since F=MA, it will have acceleration comparable to other ships. It's acceleration and top speed will be artificially limited, for safety reasons. You don't want the ship breaking apart in the middle of space because the water is sloshing around in there!
I think if you strip the wep bays out of a ragnarok, this might work. That thing looks like a bloated tic in the first place.
meh
Making a lot of the useless trade goods have a purpose is a good thing. Currently theres a whole lot of filler.
What you describe is a bulk freighter. In space, purified water would most likely be transported out in the open, frozen and covered with a tarp of some kind. Naturally, such an environment (or lack thereof) is ill-suited to the transport of more valuable goods, requiring smaller, less efficient, enclosed ships. Perhaps when capital vessels are introduced, there will be a place for such a craft.
The problem with dragging ice around in the open is that it would the ice would sublimate in transit reducing the amount of ice that you have when you got to your destination. This is how comets work. The solar wind blows back the vapor steaming off of the comet's surface and illumates it so it's visible. Granted, you probably don't lose all THAT much water, but if you're a transport company, ANY water that you lose is money that you spent on water that will never reach its intended destination and thus will never give you money back.
In all likelyhood, you'd put your ice in some sort of light, watertight wrapping to prevent loss (some sort of futuristic mylar or foil or something).
In all likelyhood, you'd put your ice in some sort of light, watertight wrapping to prevent loss (some sort of futuristic mylar or foil or something).
Intersteller Tarp.
Haha, nice pic