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Mo Gallas Gentralde
Crux Special Tasks Group
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.08.05 06:30:00 -
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Mobius Wyvern wrote:
*gets ready for the hate train*
This game connects to EVE Online. If there were any means of fitting such a device into a ground vehicle to provide it with unlimited ammunition, why in the name of all things holy would this not be equipped to the starships of the near infinitely wealthy capsuleers?
That aside, if you consider that a nanohive works by using the materials inside it and a cloud of nanites to replicate ammunition found in your magazines to fill your empty ones, they device would need to be of sufficient size and storage capacity to handle a certain number of replications. Hence why they eventually expire. So, naturally, in order to replicate larger ammunition, you need a larger device.
Let's take another look at this...
Why would starships not have a practically unlimited supply of ammo? They're in a void with nothing around them close enough to use when in combat normally.
Why could tanks and dropships have "infinite" amunition?
-They're rolling on a massive "resupply station" called a planet. Nanohives use the materials inside of them, yes, but they also can break down potential materials in the environment around them. That dirt you're rolling on is potentially filled with iron and other raw materials, even if not, the alchemical aspect of EVE satisfies that raw dirt could be converted molecularly into something more useful, hence allowing the resupply stations to continue operation. |
Mo Gallas Gentralde
Crux Special Tasks Group
Gallente Federation
178
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Posted - 2012.08.05 22:58:00 -
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Mobius Wyvern wrote:
Again, you run into the fact that you are limited:
A. In the supply of nanites in the machine
B. The sheer amount of dirt that must be broken down to assemble the more complex molecules
C. Power
Your vehicle would have to be producing enough energy to run such a machine, and it would probably require quite a bit more energy than, say, just carrying the ammunition and resupplying when necessary.
If the nano-machines can convert materials, I don't see why they can't use them to repair themselves. Also, the EVE alchemy process isn't that wasteful. Iron, tungsten and whatever components they make bullet/shell propulsion out of are not considered to be incredibly complex, as they are some of the most common materials. From what I've seen in low-rank conversion ratios.. ~200 material in --> ~150 out. so if we're turning regular dirt, into the lowest rank of materials I'd expect around.. ~200 in-->~180 out, due to the concept that simpler materials result in higher quantities of converted product.
Power? the Tank is generating energy from its internal engine systems. Most EVE craft don't use fuel either (as in no need for resupply) unless its using a warp-drive of some kind, and even then those are on the larger class ships. Other than that, most civilian ground vehicles have enough fuel to run for 4-5 hours nonstop on fossil fuels. I'd say its within reason to expect a tank can run for 15-30 minutes without encountering energy consumption problems on a fusion reactor. |
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