[FireCrack]

Originally posted by ngtm1r
Actually, Air Force fighter squadrons have 18 planes.

A-10 units have 8 aircraft: A-10 wing=24 aircraft,  

How did you guess my usual forum avatar?


Anyways, the collossus thing is sound.

Anywas what was this thread about again?

[AlphaOne]

Oki i'm not here to question how mani caombat spacecraft a ship could carey but isnt 240 spacecraft for the Colossus ridiculosly few...I mean that thing was over 6 km long why so few spacecraft?

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by AlphaOne
Oki i'm not here to question how mani caombat spacecraft a ship could carey but isnt 240 spacecraft for the Colossus ridiculosly few...I mean that thing was over 6 km long why so few spacecraft?

Need to have reactor, and possibly even a backup.
Need to have supplies of food and water, possibly oxygen.  
Need to have spare parts and stores (including ammunition) for the fighters and also for the Colossus itself.  
Need to have various systems to control and regulate the ship as a whole, and to have supporting sensors, vents, aircon or whatever else is needed to make a spaceship liveable.
Need to have escape pod storage (presumed).
Need to have recreational areas for crew (morale & general health); also feeding areas, sleep areas.
This includes the fighter pilots, fighterbay crew, support staff (i.e. fighterbay controllers), general ship crew such as gunners and engineers, etc - 30,000 in total.

So... no, it isn't.  If you look at Karas picture of 25 Ursas vs an Orion, the ships alone take a vast amount of relative space.

[WMCoolmon]

Not to mention if you want to have the fighters launch quickly, you're gonna need space for them to get out of the hangar.

[Dark RevenantX]

Never trust a game's scaling.  Look here for the most accurate scaling:

[Taristin]

IIRC, the colossus mve has a schematic-like view of the Colossus, showing how much of the ship is actually open for crew to walk through. And it's not much...

[Dark RevenantX]

[image updated-look down]

[WMCoolmon]

If that Orion were a little smaller the Colossus could use it as a turret.

[NGTM-1R]

...I'd really hate to think about what kind of beam that would fire...

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Raa
IIRC, the colossus mve has a schematic-like view of the Colossus, showing how much of the ship is actually open for crew to walk through. And it's not much...

That just shows operational blocks, really; at least IMO.  In fact, it's not clear AFAIK what those bits are; I suspect V just got lazy and thought they'd have some simple inexplicable bits highlighted onscreen

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Dark RevenantX
Never trust a game's scaling.  Look here for the most accurate scaling:

My picture wasn't taken in game. The scaling is accurate. What most people forget is that the Ursa is fecking huge!

[Dark RevenantX]

I had a slight miscalculation with my image.  You might want to compare with orion-to-person, as a person is easier to recognise and is more familiar with everyone than an ursa.  New image:

[StratComm]

That's still wrong, because the perspective is so drastically different.  The nose of the Colossus is not that much bigger than the nose of the Orion.  And the Colossus is most certainly not 4km tall.

[Dark RevenantX]

if i could go into fred and take a screenshot and correct the sizes, I would.  I can't, though.