[Trivial Psychic]

Mmmm....

Phaser Rifle!

Seriously though, just reduce the barrel length in that last image by about 25%, with possibly a mild taper towards the tip, and that should do it.

[Liberator]

My biggest grip is, unless this ship is 2 kliks long, it's entirely too narrow/missing stuff that would be needed for crew/ordinance/stores.  Right now it looks like a backbone for a ship with engine pod, Command Bridge, and primary guns.  It's anorexic.

[jdjtcagle]

UT once told me that his ships were double the size than normal Fs2 style ships...

[Gloriano]

Nice, Good work UT

[Liberator]

In that case, I revise my statement.

It looks anorexic.

It needs to be wider somehow, or give it a reason to be that long and slender, like a rail gun or something.

[Knight Templar]

Sometimes I think you guys forget how long 2 kilometers is.

[Bobboau]

about a mile

[Zarax]

Around 1.25 miles... It's a destroyer more than a cruiser imho...

[Knight Templar]

Originally posted by Bobboau
about a mile

Indeed. A lot of stuff fits in a mile.

[Liberator]

But even at that length, it's only about 200 wide and 500 tall.  Even calulating volume(2000x200x500=20000000 cubic meters)  that not a lot of volume for a ship like that, given that a lot of that is going to armor and reactor/otherwise uninhabitable.  Max crew is going to be about 500 comfortably.

[karajorma]

You must be joking. Take a look at an aircraft carrier or submarine's personel in comparison.

You could fit 500 people in one of the turret barrels on that thing.

[aldo_14]

Who gives a ****?  It's a game, after all.  If it looks good and sounds good, go for it is what I say.

[karajorma]

To be honest it gets on my nerves when people complain about the so-called unrealistic crew numbers on FS2 ships.

The numbers are less than those on a ship a quarter the size in the current day navy so I don't get it.

Add to that the "Who gives a ****" factor that Aldo mentions I really don't know why anyone is complaining about it.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by karajorma
To be honest it gets on my nerves when people complain about the so-called unrealistic crew numbers on FS2 ships.
 

Bodycount=good

[Gloriano]

Originally posted by aldo_14
Who gives a ****?  It's a game, after all.  If it looks good and sounds good, go for it is what I say.

[Swamp_Thing]

One would think they would reduce crew numbers in the future, no? Computers would run mostly everything. But FS stomps on that theory, assigning a crew member to each button or switch in the ships! Just look at the Colossus! 30.000 people??? Holy guacamole, that´s a whole lot of buttons to push!!! No wonder they got "murdelized", the crewmember in charge of the "fire" button was on sick leave.

[pyro-manic]

Originally posted by aldo_14
Who gives a ****?  It's a game, after all.  If it looks good and sounds good, go for it is what I say.

Damn straight! As has been said, the guns are too big, but it's a cracking design. Outstanding.

[TopAce]

I have problem with none of the variants above.
How many polygons will the game have to display when one of these ships is on screen? Just out of curiousity, it looks like to be more-poly rich than KARMA's fenris. It slows down my machine so much, so I found it better to enquire first.

[Unknown Target]

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