Ship #273: 17^2 POWER. Designer: Zakhep

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Size: 17x17
Designer: Zakhep

Corporation:
Giant Alien Spiders are no joke!
CEO: Zakhep

Desc:
Larger version of the 9 by 9 ships, the 17 by 17 reactor generates and provides energy to other ships. Only works if said other ships are outside the range of an energy mine.

[Game Loser]

I've been messing around with these 'reactor ship' designs myself.  Producing 1.5e/s from each reactor can help to power some behemoth cannon or missile ship, or a sustain bank of lasers.

I've not really encountered a map where energy mines are small enough to really warrant the need for this kind of ship though.  Normally the range is extended through the use of simple CM-to-Port links.  Perhaps I should make a map to utilise this kind of ships potential.

[GoodMorning]

In all honesty, Reactors are rarely cost-effective. The added build time, and the additional hull which is nonweaponised, results in a less useful ship. By the time a ship is large enough to warrant Reactors for power, it is too expensive for them to be useful.

The only real application I found was for a ship such as the Aegis (mine, that is), or as a gimmick, to require power platforms to be constructed.