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TVSI-Tech Expediter Jump Drive [DX11]

Revision: 2
Direct X: 9 & 11
Date: 09/12/2015
Version: 01.111
Model Sizes: 1,500 kb
Texture Sizes: 6,700 kb


Description

The arrival of short-range tactical Jump Drives on the open market saw Tristavian Shipyards implement a policy of rapid updates for the existing fleet. Unable to fit such a large drive to ships below a Frigate in size, TVSI Engineers turned to the TVSI-Tech sub-division for a solution. The result was the 'Expediter' Jump Drive, a smaller unit designed for smaller ships in a fleet.


Author Notes

The balance of user created jump drives is likely to be a hot topic for debate. Whilst attempting to install the KSWH jump drive on Corvettes and Patrol Boats (Phoenix classification system) I quickly came to the conclusion they were designed only for slightly larger vessels. At first this seemed fine, but I came to realise that if larger ships were capable of our-running small ships in all but the most short range combat, it totally eliminates a military's need for smaller patrol and scout vessel.

[EDIT] Rev 1: After feedback from the community I have tried adjusting the drive to better reflect the current SE philosophy on ship sizes. Smaller capital ships tend to be faster but less independent and vise versa. Based on this, the drive now offers a faster re-charge rate but a lower overall jump capacity (both on the mass-scaling and on the maximum cap);.

On saying this, I am very open to feedback on this issue and will likely be playing with the numbers over the week to come!

Note: I am not planning on making this available for small ships - I like the mechanic of restricting it to large crafts and the need for carriers :)


Details

Colourable: Yes
Available On: Large Ships, Stations
Survival Ready: Yes
Build States: Yes
Collision Mesh: Yes
Correct Mirroring: Yes

Power Input: 10 MW
Power Storage: 2 MW
Max Jump Distance: 800 km
Max Jump Mass: 400 tonnes

Current Functionality: Jump Drive
Future Functionality: Considered Complete


Current Content

TVSI-Tech 'Expediter' Jump Drive


Planned Content

Upgrade Modules when possible.


Licencing

Provided with no stipulations for personal use; may be used freely for workshop entries, private/public servers and competition entries. It is polite but not required to have a mod listing for workshop submissions.

May be freely redistributed without prior permission via steam collections and also through custom mod re-packs (credit and link required on workshop item).

May not be redistributed with any changes. This include (but is not limited to) renaming the part(s), changing any performance related stat, changing the grid size and using any texture or model for other purposes.


Version History

09/12/2015:: Rev 2: Adjusted model smoothing, adjusted DX11 CM texture shading, fixed issues with flipped faces, adjusted components to match changes to stock, adjusted various problems with build states.
19/07/2015:: Rev 1: Rebalanced to have shorter charge time and lower maximum range. Improved various aspects of the textures. Reduced tiangle count by nearly 1000 (25%) with no reduction in model quality. Added mount points for upgrade modules (coming later).
10/07/2015:: Rev 0: Initial Release


Credits

All work modelling and texturing work by Tristavius (based on designs by KSWH but built from scratch).