just a curiosity

[RevCaoticFox]

why are we still unable to place shield generators into military slots? Hull Reinforcements are their equivalents? correct?

EDIT*
or... why cant we put "corrosive resistant" cargo racks into military slots... its a "defensive module"

 

[Florenus]

I assume that military slots are not like other slots in terms of shape. I imagine them to be some kind of free space between ship's hull and inside of the ship that you can reinforce (or maybe you put those reinforcements outside of the hull), so you couldn't really fit much of anything else in there.

 

[Icybow73]

I assume that military slots are not like other slots in terms of shape. I imagine them to be some kind of free space between ship's hull and inside of the ship that you can reinforce (or maybe you put those reinforcements outside of the hull), so you couldn't really fit much of anything else in there.

Then what about SCBs?

 

[Nadreck]

Presumably SCB's are flat battery packs that can be wedged into the same crevices that HRP's can be wedged into.

The shield equivalent would be the Guardian SRP, which does also fit in a military slot.

 

[Hacker#451563]

SCB's: Yes.
Shields: No


I wondered about this too, Aren't shields a bit...you know...military?

 

[Florenus]

"military" is just a name for the slot. It's not like you could fit something in there just as long as you would find a way to convince... (I don't know who... ship AI?) that it has military use.

I can imagine Shield cell banks to be in the shape of hull plating no problem. Shield generator, on the other hand, should be rather bulky.
It's all very abstract anyway, so I just try to find a way to explain it to myself in most convincing way.

 

[Tunstan]

These are good logical explanations, but are the details regarding the reasons behind the restrictions for military compartments specified anywhere, or is this just extrapolation based on logical assumptions?

Also just curious.

 

[IndigoWyrd]

SCB's: Yes.
Shields: No


I wondered about this too, Aren't shields a bit...you know...military?

Nope. Commercial freighters and personal recreational craft can and usually do have them as well, even the exact same models.

The intent behind the Military slots and their restrictions as to which modules can be fitted was to differentiate some semblance to actual military use ships. Take the Humvee for example - those built for military use differed from those built for civilian use, namely in the additional steel armor that civilians have no need for in an oversized SUV that would never see a war zone. The streets of Detroit don’t qualify.

 

[Tunstan]

Because they are really designed to stop you from adding cargo racks.

To clarify my inquiry, I meant to ask...

Are the details regarding the reasons behind the restrictions for military compartments in the game world specified anywhere? I recognize that the game designers had their reasons for implementing them.

 

[Nadreck]

Not specified in-game as far as I know (though it probably ought to be). It can be inferred from how they were introduced: warships previously had fewer slots than multirole ships, then HRP's/MRP's were invented, then multiroles could be tougher than warships, then suddenly warship pilots discovered these handy extra slots that they had strangely failed to notice before.

 

[RevCaoticFox]

I assume that military slots are not like other slots in terms of shape. I imagine them to be some kind of free space between ship's hull and inside of the ship that you can reinforce (or maybe you put those reinforcements outside of the hull), so you couldn't really fit much of anything else in there.

cell banks?