[George] Ship dimensions and scale

[Watch TV, Do Nothing]

Here's a sample of various ships from Hornet to Phobos:



Stations and more ships will come later.

Haha, I guess "Worldship" is a little bit of hyperbole on the part of the Xenophobes. I mean, don't get me wrong, a spaceship the size of the Sears Tower is still impressive, but given the grandiose name...

I also wouldn't have guessed that a Defender would be able to land inside a football field. I'm sure I'm not the only one who imagined them as being Star Destroyer-sized because of their shape. It's actually kind of nice to learn that capital ships aren't ungodly huge leviathans- it makes destroying them in a small gunship feel more credible.



Does this mean that the New Victoria Arcology isn't really a huge orbital ring going all the way around the planet?

[Cygnus.X1]

I think we would need a different scale range for stations in game, otherwise some of them would take up most of the screen... same deal with planets come to think of it.

[Cirevam]

Stations seem reasonable as they are. Big white saucer Commonwealth stations are a kilometer in diameter, and the Arcology of New Victoria is 10 km in diameter. See: http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/3221 ... yscale.png

Each square represents 500 meters in that picture. The little white ring by the worldship is a Commonwealth Residentials station.

[Vachtra]

As noted in George's response. the planets and stations are in a different scale.