[TopAce]

This thread has one topic:

Use this thread to declare war on each other, or to send somebody to hell. Wish him his chair explode, when he is sitting on it. Tell your problem about somebody OPENLY.

THIS IS THE THREAD OF WAR FOR EVERYONE!
MAXIMAL VIOLANCE! NO MERCY !

[Shiva-jin Buu]

Is this some kind of "I WANNA BE POPULAR AND IM GONNA MAKE A OT INTERACTIVE THREAD TO DO IT!!!!!11111" thread?

(Sorry bud, you openly ask for hostility, so here u go )

[Petrarch of the VBB]

This thread will not last.

[Shiva-jin Buu]

Shall we transform this thread into a normal serious topic?

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Yes.

Let us discuss the interal layout of the Argo.

I believe it will be very cramped inside, despite being a large craft. This is because there are many potential dockpoint on it, and so each one will required bulky airlock equpment.

[Shiva-jin Buu]

I wonder how true space-combat would be...

if you can jump from any point in one system to another, then that would make ambushes very easy. But you could just as easy jump away if it happens to you. How would warfare adapt to inter-system jumping?

and what about the jump nodes. Obviously they would be very importnat strategic locations, as it is the only means of travel to other systems. As a result, major installations and factories would be positioned near a jump node. It would make things very simple, i guess....

is this serious enough?

[Stunaep]

Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
Yes.

Let us discuss the interal layout of the Argo.

I believe it will be very cramped inside, despite being a large craft. This is because there are many potential dockpoint on it, and so each one will required bulky airlock equpment.

What's the capacity of the Argo? 1000? 2000? Considering they can hold some 6000 humans on a 600-meter brick, with armor heavier than that of a Indosiean Elephant Turtle, plus there are beam cannons, I think even in spite of the crampiness Argo should hold 3000 at least.

Wait... didn't Petrarch say in a Blue Lions Debriefing, that an Argo can hold 2500. Something along the lines of "The Argo XXXX was destroyed. 2500 lives were lost"

[SadisticSid]

I think you'd need to pack them into crates to store that many.  ^_^

Sid.

[TopAce]

Originally posted by Stunaep

What's the capacity of the Argo? ....

That's that I was curious about. The thread begun at topic a , now here is the topic b , and the thread will be now about this topic b , which is the question above. My experience is that a thread starts at a specific topic(this case a topic of no meaning) and it goes to another topic very quickly, and the original topic will be lost.

[TopAce]

Sorry guys(and girls, if there are some around us) I was not serious about this topic, I didn't want to do anything special with this thread, that was only a 'let's see how true my experiences are'-class topic. From my part you might erase it immediatly, I was just curious.

Sorry everyone, again.
(Mr. Administrator : If you want, you can subtract three of my number of posts, these were not real-value posts in my eye.)

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Meh.

Leave it open. We'll discuss the argo.

Right, it is 171 metres long, apparently. I shall produce a diagram of its infernal layout.

[Unknown Target]

SCREW YOU ALL, YOU PINKO COMMIES!!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!:D

That violent enough for you?

[Petrarch of the VBB]

You think that's violent?

You've never seen an English football crowd abroad, then.

[Unknown Target]

...thank God :rollseyes:
Crazy brits...

[Petrarch of the VBB]

That's why I despise football, it tends to turns people into wankers.

[TopAce]

Don't you want to discuss the exact capacity of the Argo? I think that should be between 100 and 200 at most, it is too small to carry up to thousand(s) of personnel.

[GrandAdmiralAbaht]

Are you mad TopAce?

Seriously, a 150 meter-long ocean cruise ship could probably hold more people than that.  An argo has a volume far superior to any cruise ship, and even with engines and systems space, the argo should hold at least 1000 troops.  Come on, its a blasted troop ship!  The GTVA would not design a good drop ship to hold less than 1000 people, which is an acceptable force.  I mean, how else can an argo be able to take over a corvette when it boards?

[diamondgeezer]

Originally posted by Shiva-jin Buu
if you can jump from any point in one system to another, then that would make ambushes very easy. But you could just as easy jump away if it happens to you. How would warfare adapt to inter-system jumping?  

Bin thinking about this today, as it happens, and my conclusion is that V's ideas on intra-system travel suck. OK, it makes mission designing easy since stuff can just appear and diasappear as needed, but it's a roayl bastard to rationalise. I mean, you could travel from one end of GTVA space to another in less than a day. That's just.. wrong. Why didn't the GTA/GTVA/whatever expand more rapidly given that it takes a few minutes to reach a solar system and jump across it? And what's the point in carriers? Fighters can be anywhere in system with a minute's notice, so why bother moving them around on carriers?

Someone needs to have a word with V

[Sesquipedalian]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer

Why didn't the GTA/GTVA/whatever expand more rapidly given that it takes a few minutes to reach a solar system and jump across it?

Because it is hard to find new jump nodes, I suppose.

And what's the point in carriers? Fighters can be anywhere in system with a minute's notice, so why bother moving them around on carriers?

Well, they need to be housed somewhere.  It may as well be on board a moving ship as a stationary platform.  Then they can be redeployed throughout GTVA space as needed.

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Yeah, they'll need to be on carriers for inter-system travel.