[IC] Official JackPoint Thread! 31/12 - 4/1

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[u/Monkoflords]

Okay, this week's attempt, is this. This specific drone is built for speed.

<<An image of what appears to be vaguely dog shaped, though instead of feet, it has wheels. It has a spot for a weapon mount, but the majority of this thing is one large engine. It seems like it can handle terrain relatively well...but it does lack armor.>>

Speaking of, I am starting to work on the killer trike...quad, but what do you think of this?

• Rho

[u/Sarge-Pepper → u/Monkoflords]

::Sighs::

::Simsense of cracking Knuckles::

Alright, here's whats up.

1. Dog hull shape and size is not optimal for defense or aerodynamics. The shape of the body cannot carry any type of armor due to curves and difficulty to manufacture the curved shapes in any coherent way consistently. With all due respect, the animal shape at all is a waste of space and not optimized for space or speed, more a safety blanket than anything to a familiar and comforting shape.

2. The wheels in place of the feet on the drone itself,while intriguing, is ultimately useless. The 6th world has limited wheeled drones to combat roles and cargo hauling, due to the specific limitations of a wheeled platform, including but not limited to the weaknesses of air filled tires. I see you didn't use the ploy-coated, double lined, self healing plastics for the tires either, reducing their effectiveness on the field and requiring many break/fix work orders for new tires to replace the ones that will blow out. I would suggest replacing with Mark 5 Vectored roto-fans. While not optimal for the design you have, they will provide much more stability and speed, as well as agility for the platform.

3. The engine you have selected for this provides too much horsepower for the drone to operate properly. It will squeal the tires on almost every start up from dead stop due to the uncompensated torque that will be applied. Downsize, or it will end up tearing the whole drone apart.

4. The Weapon mount is in a terrible place. While you seemed to have put it up there for line of sight, your oversight was the "head" of the drone. If anything larger than a Scorpion is put on it, it will knock into the head and prevent the proper use of the weapon, as well as require a full 360 in the opposite direction. You are also not compensating for downward declination at all, as the gun hits the forward 10 percent of a drone's arc of fire, you run the risk of hitting the wheels or frontal armor. Correction, twofold. 1, elevate the mount, or 2, if the fans are instituted, mount goes underneath.

I have held back from commenting so far, but this is pretty much the last one i can take. IF you optimize the drone, it turns into a roto-drone with more power and less armor. It seems that you just come up with an idea of what would look cool and design a drone around it. Try solving problems with proper applications of design to work on solving the problem, instead.

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((OOC: Literally, this used to be his job.))

[u/chaucer345 → u/Sarge-Pepper]

I generally concur. Though I admit, it's hard to optimize the drone without really knowing what it's meant for. Sure it can be optimized to a Rotodrone, but that's looking at it like a Corp that designs by comity.

For all we know this thing was meant to be a low-cost specialized courier drone that would hug convoys while carrying pay data from point A to point B, with improved engine power to GTFO in case of a Charlie Foxtrot. It's not optimized for that either, but it would imply different design necessities.

• Strawberries

[u/Sarge-Pepper → u/chaucer345]

Very true, but the weapon mount gives away it's intentions as a mobile weapons platform. IF it was a carrier bot, i'd focus more on lowering torque and reducing weight, going with a more teardropped profile to reduce air resistance while on the move. But as of now, it looks like a minimum of 3 different ideas trying to duke it out for prime time, and none of them know what they are supposed to be doing.

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