Ship size

Kinda oversized

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Has anyone ever paid attention to ship size compared to the planets? In the manual book it says an average frigate's crew number around the low hundreds and some down it two digits yet you look at the floating cities on a planet and they are way smaller than the frigates. by size comparison, i would say capital ship can house in the billions yet their crew sizes are in the thousands, even for the colony type capitals. I realize they shrunk it down to fit multiple planets in a game without having it way oversized but seriously, it just wierd.

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Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Yeah I noticed this earlier today. I saw a HC and I was like Wait WTF. . .  OH MY GOD IT'S THE END OF THE-"

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

thats how i was when a started play this a few moths ago

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Ship and structure scale are thrown out the window when you compare them to planets: either the planet is diminuitive or the ships are so big that a Trade Ship is already a beast of a vessel.

Were the size of the ships actually to scale, crashing frigs into planets would probably be more effective at killing the population than bombing it.

Say... that's an idea...

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Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Make a mod where you can suicidally make ships ram into planets.

I bet a Cobalt can make an explosion the size of 500,000 Atomic bombs.

The asteroid that destroyed the Dinosaurs was half that, maybe less.

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sorry double post

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

im sure if they have intersteller travel, they probably have planet killing weapons fit into one or more small bombs. besides. nukes and hydrogen bombs are nowhere near there full potential, im pretty sure a nuke with enough uranium can make mars go bye bye

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

Uranium just makes the radiation more effective and powerful. It depends on what warhead you're using, for range and effect of the explosion/radiation.

The Titan II ICBM in the 50s had a fifty kiloton warhead On it, I think. We used it for testing and the Titan project was later used for taking satellites high into orbit.

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Quoting EmperorPalpatine89, reply 8
Uranium just makes the radiation more effective and powerful. It depends on what warhead you're using, for range and effect of the explosion/radiation.

The Titan II ICBM in the 50s had a fifty kiloton warhead On it, I think. We used it for testing and the Titan project was later used for taking satellites high into orbit.

Behold, the bringer of light.

Thats with '60s tech too. Im sure if we wanted we could do better now days. Not to mention the far future.

 

Ive never really thought about the ships scale, I always chalked it up perspective