[Shrike]

 

Originally posted by aldo_14:
I think someone managed to minimse the defualt ships.tbl to around 270k,

*waves*

[Setekh]

 

Originally posted by sandwich:
Wait a sec - you mean to tell me that the limit is a kilobyte limit and not the number of entrys?

Uhhh, IIRC, there is a limit to both - numerous people have discovered there is a 380k (?) limit on the tbl, but Woomeister also discovered that there is a limit to the number of entries. You'll have to find him for the exact number.  

[QXMX]

 

Originally posted by Shrike:
*waves*

Is there a link to it?


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[aldo_14]

 

Originally posted by Setekh:
Uhhh, IIRC, there is a limit to both - numerous people have discovered there is a 380k (?) limit on the tbl, but Woomeister also discovered that there is a limit to the number of entries. You'll have to find him for the exact number.  

Strangely, I have a working ships.tbl with 2 new ships,which is 382 kb.

[Raven2001]

I don't have any idea for a designation for your vessel, but guys, tell me what you think of this one:

GTIr - Ironclad - Battleships of the size of a destroyer, but that don't have fighters, but they have twice the armament and armor.

[morris13]

Hrm.. thats a designation 140 years old even now. It doesn't really make a lot of sense as a ship class, although it would be an excellent Name for an individual ship. Why not just call a battleship a battleship?

[This message has been edited by morris13 (edited 06-08-2001).]

[aldo_14]

I thought I'd revivie this, seeing as I thought up a couple of new types recently

G#Ds - Dropship
200-300m , 3/4 AAf turrets, very powerful engines with a rapid recharge jump drive.  Designed to carry (and recover) 1-3 fighter wings behind enemy lines, beyond their normal range.  Rather than have a normal hanger, the Dropship has direct power / Air supply lines into the fighters onboard to keep the pilots alive and powered during the journey.  It's uncomfortable as hell, but hey, this is war  

G#Pr - Probe class.  
Between 5-50m, very fast, minimal armament and armour.  Mainly used for advance scouting of remote systems, but can also be retrofitted with explosives as a long range missile.

G#Gs (Not sure) - Gunship class
Larger than bomber - 40-50m long - player piloted craft.  Minimum 18 primary firpoints, 2-4 turrets, massive secondary banks.  Reasonably fast, but about as maneuverable as a beached Walrus.  Used to attack suppy convoys with fighter escort.

G#GB (again, not sure) - Gunboat class
Between freighter/ cruiser size (160-300m), with 4 missile and 4 laser turrets (possibly 1 weak beam).  Step below a cruiser, mainly for civillian patrolling.

G#? - Decoy frieghter
Small gunboat / cruiser, disguised as a frieghter but with excellent AAF wepaonry.

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[Shrike]

 

Originally posted by aldo_14:
G#Ds - Dropship
200-300m , 3/4 AAf turrets, very powerful engines with a rapid recharge jump drive.  Designed to carry (and recover) 1-3 fighter wings behind enemy lines, beyond their normal range.  Rather than have a normal hanger, the Dropship has direct power / Air supply lines into the fighters onboard to keep the pilots alive and powered during the journey.  It's uncomfortable as hell, but hey, this is war  

G#? - Decoy frieghter
Small gunboat / cruiser, disguised as a frieghter but with excellent AAF wepaonry.

1) That sounds more like an SOC fighter transport.  Dropships are basically assumed to be the interstellar version of LSTs.

2) It's called a Q-ship.    GTQ.

[DragonClaw]

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[aldo_14]

 

Originally posted by Shrike:
1) That sounds more like an SOC fighter transport.  Dropships are basically assumed to be the interstellar version of LSTs.
B]

Exactly what I meant - basically for 'Into the Lions Den', a similar thing would be needed.  Might have to make it stealth, for obvious reasons.

[DragonClaw]

  stealth... yay!!  

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[Setekh]

Adding an 'a' (like TFFa Chimera) denotes 'advanced', and an 'x' (like TFDx Apocalypse) denotes 'experimental'.  

['Captain' Nick Brown]

 

Originally posted by QXMX:
That's a lotta models.  How many can be supported in the table files?

I believe the limit for the ships.tbl is around 380KB... I put all the ship models that I collect from everywhere/everyone all into the same ships.tbl. I must have an extra 10-20 ships. It's still under 380KB (because I get rid of the description tags), it works perfectly...

[Kitsune]

I believe the maximum limit is 120 entries.
You can add more and still be under the 380k crash size, but when you enter a mission, 2:30 will elapse before you can do anything in-game.  Ships will be destroyed by enemy fighters, you can be shot down before you can do -anything- as well.

It's not fun when that happens.  

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[Grey Wolf]

 

Originally posted by Setekh:
Adding an 'a' (like TFFa Chimera) denotes 'advanced', and an 'x' (like TFDx Apocalypse) denotes 'experimental'.  

In real life the 'a' and 'x' are usually capital and before the ship type designation.

[Nico]

 

Originally posted by Grey Wolf 2009:

Originally posted by Setekh:
Adding an 'a' (like TFFa Chimera) denotes 'advanced', and an 'x' (like TFDx Apocalypse) denotes 'experimental'.    

In real life the 'a' and 'x' are usually capital and before the ship type designation.[/B]

In real life, a cruiser is bigger than a destroyer whish is bigger than a corvette...

[YodaSean]

In real life, I think a Y in front of the name means experimental.  Like the YF-22

[Nico]

 

Originally posted by YodaSean:
In real life, I think a Y in front of the name means experimental.  Like the YF-22

depends the army, the country...

[Grey Wolf]

It also depends on the branch of the military.

[LAW ENFORCER]

Ok I made this list with the help of a dictionary for my MOD, this would be current day navy

Patrol Craft: very lightly armoured
gunboat: Small vessel with medium armaments(note: I think it goes here)
Corvette: small naval esscort
frigate: Large corvette/naval esscort vessel
gunship: Medium vessel with high armaments (note: I think it goes here)
destroyer: medium armour/weapons, fast attack
Cruiser:  faster than battleship but less armour and weapons
battle-cruiser: heavily armed cruiser
battleship: most armour, most guns
carrier: mothership, little (compered to battleship) armourment, other ships defend

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