[Titan]

Ok, this dilemma stems from Ragnarok, which i'm still hard at work on. I need a bunch of things answered, first and foremost:

I wanna change the leviathan's length to something more sensible (its currently at like 50 meters) does 250 sound good (The length of a SW lancer frigate)

i also need any info on what happened during the reconstruction era

any info on the SOC

and any info on the NTC Maelstrom and it's history (yeah, i have something big planned for one of the least important ships in the game)

[Colonol Dekker]

The Wiki is pretty chocka'block i'd imagine.

[Mars]

Um... the Leviathan IS 250 meters long.

[Titan]

say what? so that makes fighters... 40 meters long? 

[Polpolion]

say what? so that makes fighters... 40 meters long? 

Nope. Fighters IIRC are ~20m long.

But you did give me a great campaign idea for me to not make. 

[Titan]

i just mean, leviathans are supposed to house several thousand people, plus all the systems. they should be large compared to fighters. Then, of course, i mean to change the sizes of all capital ships (and the much wanting Elysium...)

[Rodo]

I always thought figters seem pretty big in comparison with cap ships, jus put your perseus next to the leviathan and watch the pilot model against the leviathans (windows?)

well but no one seems to care about that issue, also I think it would require to change all the models already done and working but then again, what do I know about this stuff

[Titan]

well, this is for something i'm WRITING, so i can do anything i want.

[karajorma]

Never make the mistake of assuming FS2 fighters are small. They're all pretty big.

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,52268.msg1055007.html#msg1055007

[Titan]

meh, thats another thing i wanted to bring up. based on known materials, what would be a realistic amount of damage a freespace warhead would do. To an enlarged fenris (ok, lets make it... 300m long.)

[terran_emperor]

Depends on the warhead.

A Harbinger, which was designed for planetary bombardment should vaporise a Fenris/Leviathan.

The missile warheads are roughly equivalent to most missiles used today,

Cyclops and Tsunami would cripple if not destroy cruiser realistically

Harbingers and Helios are realistically roughly equivalent to a Nuke or H-bomb.

Meson bombs would i'm very sure devestate an entire continent at least

[Aardwolf]

http://www.merzo.net/

Stop saying FS stuff is not the size it is. Use this to compare to real stuff (it has the Sath somewhere I think), and use FRED to compare between ships (and get measurements).

[Rodo]

well I still thing fighters look a little bigger than they should, hey tnks for the thread link, I didn't knew about -fov command line.

[Titan]

can't find the sath...

[dragonsniper]

It's under the -10X section, about a quarter of the way down the page to the right.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Actually, I thought a Meson Bomb could destroy an entire fleet.

[Droid803]

It probably can, given that it has like a...5 km blast radius.
As long as the ships are relatively close together...

[Mars]

If they can survive the blast wave from a supernova?

[Retsof]

i just mean, leviathans are supposed to house several thousand people

I was under the impression that a cruiser held around 500.  Corvettes probably around 1 or 2 thousand.  Destroyers 10,000.

[Mars]

Fenris cruisers are larger than Nimitz class carriers, so a few thousand people aren't a problem.

Deimos Corvettes must be pretty empty

The Colossus must be a ghost town.