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failurecrusade In reply to xenoside [2005-12-13 21:51:09 +0000 UTC]

well for the UNEF (human main military force in my story) frigates serve two main roles: supporting larger caps, and bridging the gap between the massive capships of the fleet, and the much smaller capships of the less developed races

as the UNEF has the resources to produce and deploy fleets of ships that are absolutely massive, where subjegated races/factions and lesser developed neighbors tend to only have the ability to put out smaller ships in smaller fleets. it would be a waste of resources to send even a deestroyer to wipe out an enemy fleet where the flagship is 1000yrds at best. so to solve this problem frigates were built in a scale that would be more efficient for taking on these lesser foes, and are thus ranging in size anywhere from 300yrds to roughly 1500yrds. thus frigate clasified vessels are highly diverse in scale and capability, thus categorizeing frigates is hardly an easy task.

best i have been able to come up with is that there will be four parent classes, capitol frigate, heavy, medium, and light. the capitol designation represents frigates that would otherwise be a full capitol fleet. where the hvy, med, lght classes are parented to actual capitolships (destroyers, cruisers, batts). cap frigs are the class in which all frigates not classifiable in the other two fall into. though these frigates are still used in support of large caps, they are able to break away and function ass smaller fleets so that the caps dont have to "overkill" threats.

here is a rough analogy:
in star wars the empire needed the deathstar to destroye a planet, one of my destroyers could accomplish the same goal (although in nowhere near as impressive a manner) by simply poping the planet with a "type 10" round. so it would then be kinda poointless for that same destroyer to take on a star destroyer (sinlge shot overkill) and expend the power, when one of its frigates could do the job with the same amount of ease and consume less resource doing so.

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failurecrusade In reply to shinogami [2005-09-23 21:52:23 +0000 UTC]

still hase a few fine tunings to make tho

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failurecrusade In reply to TDBK [2005-09-23 21:42:02 +0000 UTC]

the design features i plan to keep. i was also rather pleased with the bow end of the ship

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failurecrusade In reply to sercoe [2005-09-23 21:39:17 +0000 UTC]

prisma markers. this one is likely to get a full redesign anyway.

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failurecrusade In reply to JavKiller [2005-09-23 00:25:12 +0000 UTC]

i had so much positive feedback on the coloring for hte docking rammer frigate that i decided i would see how it owuld be received on this design as well. ill give the redesign a different set of color in that case tho.

and i know homewolrd influence is not a bad thing...but its more for my own design continuity that i may need to redo hte whole thing

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JavKiller In reply to failurecrusade [2005-09-23 01:06:46 +0000 UTC]

:3 wanna play HW one of these days?

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failurecrusade In reply to JavKiller [2005-09-23 21:31:55 +0000 UTC]

perhaps, but i have the mac version...and ive been having some trouble figureing out how to play it online with non mac palyers....or at least the mac v of hw2.

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JavKiller In reply to failurecrusade [2005-09-24 04:28:15 +0000 UTC]

o.o I sort of meant hw1. I mean I -could- get hw2 but the spanish version is...ugh. I'd rather get it in english if I can. Anyhow, it'd cool to try.

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failurecrusade In reply to JavKiller [2005-09-24 05:52:37 +0000 UTC]

ill see about getting hw1 runnin...have to go talk to those with eyepatches

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JavKiller In reply to failurecrusade [2005-09-24 07:36:13 +0000 UTC]

lol
kk, as soon as you can get it to work online...

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failurecrusade In reply to JavKiller [2005-09-26 20:22:39 +0000 UTC]

most deffinately

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