Author Topic: What Ship Type is the GTVA Colossus? (Read 48933 times)

AlphaOne · **Reply #200 on:** January 24, 2009, 09:40:29 am

And in real life we would have lazors to snipe targets a few hundred km away

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Commander Zane · **Reply #201 on:** January 24, 2009, 04:47:46 pm

ffs...
It's speculation of what would happen on FreeSpace's part had the events taken place in real-time.
Seriously, would anyone actually sortie a single ship with two bomber wings to take down another ship as large and magnitudes of power stronger than your carrier vessel?

AlphaOne · **Reply #202 on:** January 24, 2009, 05:15:06 pm

IF i was desperate enough i would. I mean if you wanna take it close to real time then ffs lets talk combat deployment of the GTVA fleet's combat engagements and such...!

I mean heres one example ! You have the flagship of the 5'th fleet the Aquitane and one of the most proeminent admirals and posibly influencial ones in all the GTVA on board as its commander . The Aquitane could very well be considered some sort of flag ship for the GTVA . And yet the Aquitane is left unguarded almost all of the time. At best you have one fraking wing of fighters providing CAP in the fraking middle of the nebula.

I mean come on get real.

I'd freaking sortie at least 6 wing's of fighter's,bombers and interceptors. 2 bombers wings 1 fighter wing and 3 interceptor wings. That is an actual adequate CAP in the middle of the freaking war with a species that is superior in both numbers and weapons. And since you cant freaking see anithin' in the god damn nebula id say keeping at least 1 or 2 cruisers or a corvette close by would be a really good idea.

Also let's not forget the all mighty Collie with its sh** for brain weapons configuration . Powerfull indeed but ever so weak at the same time.

You have THE flagship of the entire GTVA armed forces and a simbol of GTVA pride and so on ...and yet the bloody thing is left unguarded all the time. I dont care how much firepower it has i will never let that ship go anywhere without an Orion and a Hecate or Hattie less then a 1 short jump away.

Oh and dont even get me started on the absolute stupidity of fracking blocading nodes by placing your ships in front of the enemy cannons cuz that just made my head explode . I mean what kind of an absolute idiot do you have to be to place yourself in the lion's mouth like that .

Fraking move to the side you fraking idiots for the love of god.

Oh yeah not to mention the favorite of us all "uu lets send 1 wing of bombers to take out the enemy fleet cuz..err they can do it ..hoorayyyy....." "so what about the rest of the ships "

"aaa well why dont we try to play tag with the enemy beam canons that sounds like fun right ....??!!"

Phew vented off some steam here but i think ppl should understand that while it is appealing to try and debate all these things in real time and such one has to disregard a host of other game elements that are there top be taken a laws or something.

Commander Zane · **Reply #203 on:** January 24, 2009, 06:08:07 pm

So the game itself is concentrated on the player's viewpoint of being a combat pilot for a given flagship, I can deal with that, piloting small things is fun, but it's too concentrated on the point that such a pilot can change the entire tide of battle in any situation. For the battles against the Sathanas, there'd probably be more large ships and even more small ships, it's not like we can do that with ground troops in reality "Okay, our objectives are to clear this city, this tank will provide assistance for Fireteam (Four men) Alpha, expect heavy resistance, good luck." and somehow win.

AlphaOne · **Reply #204 on:** January 24, 2009, 06:16:05 pm

well thats exactly mi point. I mean before ppl start stating and debating real time stuf they shoul concentrate on the fact that the game is made is such a way that the pilot in this case the player of Alpha 1 is MEANT to win the war all by himself.

and he probably could too with a few cheats

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Androgeos Exeunt · **Reply #205 on:** January 24, 2009, 11:45:47 pm

In that sense, FS2 sounds like Pokemon, Freelancer, Duke Nukem and Prey.

Charismatic · **Reply #206 on:** January 30, 2009, 12:01:05 pm

The Collie was built to defeat a Lucifer. Lucifer was a superdestroyer, so shouldent the Collie be one as well?

Sathi's are Juggernauts but the Collie could not really take one on without the help of Alpha 1. So how can it be a Jugernaut?

Jeff Vader · **Reply #207 on:** January 30, 2009, 12:05:51 pm

Quote from: Charismatic on January 30, 2009, 12:01:05 pm

The Collie was built to defeat a Lucifer. Lucifer was a superdestroyer, so shouldent the Collie be one as well?

Bombers weren't built to defeat other bombers.

Charismatic · **Reply #208 on:** January 30, 2009, 12:09:10 pm

Fighters are built to defeat other fighters as well as other ships. But this is cap ships were talking about. The Collie took out destroyers just fine. Had a hard time taking out a Sathi.

Snail · **Reply #209 on:** January 30, 2009, 12:43:45 pm

Ursae are designed to destroy destroyers... So does that mean they're destroyers too?

This train of thought has to be the worst argument set forward for any candidate so far.

Charismatic · **Reply #210 on:** January 30, 2009, 12:59:04 pm

Screw off. I said fighters in general. Exceptions always apply. Like when lag bombing or tab loading.

SpardaSon21 · **Reply #211 on:** January 30, 2009, 06:38:37 pm

I used to think Juggernaut, but then I saw the .ani that talks about the Colossus after you first encounter it. It pretty clearly stated "TVA Battle Ship". So therefore we can conclude that the class of the Colossus is battleship.

AlphaOne · **Reply #212 on:** January 30, 2009, 07:36:19 pm

You're all wrong the collie is in fact a stealth fighter with beams ! The whole 6 km long thing is just its disguise ! Thats how it goes about unnoticed. The GTVA scientists and most brilliant minds decided that this top secret project was best hidden in a 6 km long thing.

Dilmah G · **Reply #213 on:** January 30, 2009, 10:04:17 pm

Quote from: AlphaOne on January 30, 2009, 07:36:19 pm

You're all wrong the collie is in fact a stealth fighter with beams ! The whole 6 km long thing is just its disguise ! Thats how it goes about unnoticed. The GTVA scientists and most brilliant minds decided that this top secret project was best hidden in a 6 km long thing.

I think I'll hand my rank slides in now thanks. Oh- and my Officers Commission and everything I have to do with the GTVA.

Killer Whale · **Reply #214 on:** January 31, 2009, 06:13:43 am

I think it's a supercapitol

Commander Zane · **Reply #215 on:** January 31, 2009, 07:09:51 am

Quote from: Killer Whale on January 31, 2009, 06:13:43 am

I think it's a supercapitol

We've already pointed it out...it's a "Battle Ship."

Androgeos Exeunt · **Reply #216 on:** January 31, 2009, 10:19:01 am

Article modified to reflect http://koti.mbnet.fi/reiler/FunkyFreeSpaceStuff/wtfnooblol.png and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrKMw6JHgFA.

http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php?title=GTVA_Colossus&diff=20541&oldid=19924

This thread may now be spammed and subsequently locked. Thanks for the evidence, Commander Zane and Lobo. Much obliged.

Snail · **Reply #217 on:** January 31, 2009, 11:03:00 am

Are you serious?

Droid803 · **Reply #218 on:** January 31, 2009, 11:31:15 am

Please drop the 'of massive proportions'. That just sounds...unprofessional. 'Battle ship' would be a good enough designation.
We all know the Colossus was made by the (Galactic) Terran-Vasudan Alliance, and that it's big.

TopAce · **Reply #219 on:** January 31, 2009, 11:51:45 am

What about writing an article about this issue, and instead of giving a designation, there would be a link there?

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The GTVA Colossus is never explicitly given a ship type in game, so what do you think it is closest to?

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