Re: OT: Starship size comparisons 1 pixel per meter
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Those are way off for the Eclipse vs. the SSD - the eclipse is 17500m and the SSD is 8000m, yet they are shown as basically the same size.

Re: OT: Starship size comparisons 1 pixel per meter
 

Er, when quoting people, is there some handy-dandy feature to quote them and preserve links and stuff, or do you just search through the source HTML and cut and paste that between two quote tags?

edit: oops, sorry, double post

edit edit: hehe, right, i just saw the quote button on the main view. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif nevemind.

[ May 01, 2003, 06:21: Message edited by: Gwaihir ]

Re: OT: Starship size comparisons 1 pixel per meter
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Er, click on the -2000x scale button... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

Plus they ought to add Red Dwarf.
And I didn't see the little fighters from Battlestar Galactica.

[ May 01, 2003, 18:22: Message edited by: Wanderer ]

Re: OT: Starship size comparisons 1 pixel per meter
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hehehe

I can re-enact the Hindinburgh disaster on this page...

Ok, so it's the Hindinburgh crashing on Cloud City... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Re: OT: Starship size comparisons 1 pixel per meter
 

Wow, an Imperial Star Destroyer is really big.

What's up with that Romulan Warbird or Deridex or something? Isn't it too big?
I don't remember them to be that big in Bridge Kommander.

Re: OT: Starship size comparisons 1 pixel per meter
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I made Kong climb the Empire State Building. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Re: OT: Starship size comparisons 1 pixel per meter
 

Is it there any chance that the kts in SE4 may be also taken as the lenght?

If a 500 kt Cruiser would also be 500m long, then we would be closer to sci-fi mainstream...... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Re: OT: Starship size comparisons 1 pixel per meter
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">hehe, I tried to make him fall but he doesn't wanna turn upside down..... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Re: OT: Starship size comparisons 1 pixel per meter
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">May be not a length, but a volume certainly. After all, when we speak about ship displacement it is in fact a measure how much water do we need to sink her http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Certainly, it can not be water for starships. May be vaccum ? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif It does have non-zero "zero" density after all !
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif

Re: OT: Starship size comparisons 1 pixel per meter
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Actually, the Executor class IS about the same size as the Eclipse. See these pages for details:

http://www.theforce.net/swtc/ssd5mile.html
http://www.theforce.net/swtc/ssd.html#size