Ship-Measuring Contest
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A query: how big does one consider their ships?
From what I gather - mainly secondhand - the >upper< limit of ship sizes:
Corvette, 80 meters
Frigate, 250 meters
Destroyer, 400 meters
Cruiser, 1,200 meters
Battleship, 2000 meters
Carrier & Dreadnought, 3,300 meters
Superdreadnought, 5,000 meters
Titan, 25,000 meters
Leviathan, No set limit (and a truly astronomical cost).
While your ships might be larger or smaller, these are meant to be the "max size before you're too heavy/large/whatever to fufill your role". Because slapping a peashooter onto a cruiser does not magically give it fighter-level maneuverability.
From what I gather - mainly secondhand - the >upper< limit of ship sizes:
Corvette, 80 meters
Frigate, 250 meters
Destroyer, 400 meters
Cruiser, 1,200 meters
Battleship, 2000 meters
Carrier & Dreadnought, 3,300 meters
Superdreadnought, 5,000 meters
Titan, 25,000 meters
Leviathan, No set limit (and a truly astronomical cost).
While your ships might be larger or smaller, these are meant to be the "max size before you're too heavy/large/whatever to fufill your role". Because slapping a peashooter onto a cruiser does not magically give it fighter-level maneuverability.
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Re: Ship-Measuring Contest
Escort (Pinnace, Corvette, etc) - 50 meters
Frigate - 70 meters
Destroyer - 100 meters
Cruiser - 400 meters
Carrier - 500 meters
Battlecruiser - 600 meters
Dreadnought - 1000 meters
Titan - 2000 meters
Leviathan - 5000 meters
Reaper - 10 kilometers
Harbinger - 20 kilometers
Monolith - 500 kilometers
World Destroyer - 10 megameters
Galaxy Destroyer - 500 gigameters
Super Galaxy Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann - 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 yoctometers (7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (7 trigintillion) meters)
Frigate - 70 meters
Destroyer - 100 meters
Cruiser - 400 meters
Carrier - 500 meters
Battlecruiser - 600 meters
Dreadnought - 1000 meters
Titan - 2000 meters
Leviathan - 5000 meters
Reaper - 10 kilometers
Harbinger - 20 kilometers
Monolith - 500 kilometers
World Destroyer - 10 megameters
Galaxy Destroyer - 500 gigameters
Super Galaxy Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann - 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 yoctometers (7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (7 trigintillion) meters)
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Re: Ship-Measuring Contest
Error, you might want to consider adding some zeroes to your battleship size. Otherwise it's in my classification of "model toy ship"
Small craft (pinnace, gunship, etc.): 50m
Corvette: 100m
Frigate: 300m
Destroyer/Cruiser (difference lies in role): 700m
Battlecruiser: 900m
Battleship (inofficial term for small dreadnaughts): 1000m
Dreadnaught: 2000m
Superdreadnaught: 5000m
Titan: 30km
Leviathan: upwards
Carriers are handled differently, by adding "carrier" to ships with a proportionally large flight deck. (e.g. The old Sawfish-class being classified as a Carrier Cruiser in official literature.
I notice Hexalan has a pretty complicated classification system for what Novus and the MR simply refer to as "titan".
Small craft (pinnace, gunship, etc.): 50m
Corvette: 100m
Frigate: 300m
Destroyer/Cruiser (difference lies in role): 700m
Battlecruiser: 900m
Battleship (inofficial term for small dreadnaughts): 1000m
Dreadnaught: 2000m
Superdreadnaught: 5000m
Titan: 30km
Leviathan: upwards
Carriers are handled differently, by adding "carrier" to ships with a proportionally large flight deck. (e.g. The old Sawfish-class being classified as a Carrier Cruiser in official literature.
I notice Hexalan has a pretty complicated classification system for what Novus and the MR simply refer to as "titan".
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Fighter
1m beam, 2m keel
Boat
2m beam, 4 m keel
Corvette
4m beam, 8m keel
Frigate
8 meter beam, 16 meter keel
Cruiser
16 meter beam, 32 meter keel
Battlecruiser
32 meter beam, 64 meter keel
Carrier
64 meter beam, 128 meter keel
Battleship
256 meter beam, 512 meter keel
Juggernaut
512 meter beam, 1024 meter keel
Dreadnought
1024 meter beam, 2048 meter keel
Super Dreadnought
2048 meter beam, 4096 meter keel
Titan
4096 meter beam, 8192 meter keel
Worldship
8192 meter beam, 16384 meter keel
(format is a bit off as a copy-pasted it, and I will be using this thread for more ideas.)
1m beam, 2m keel
Boat
2m beam, 4 m keel
Corvette
4m beam, 8m keel
Frigate
8 meter beam, 16 meter keel
Cruiser
16 meter beam, 32 meter keel
Battlecruiser
32 meter beam, 64 meter keel
Carrier
64 meter beam, 128 meter keel
Battleship
256 meter beam, 512 meter keel
Juggernaut
512 meter beam, 1024 meter keel
Dreadnought
1024 meter beam, 2048 meter keel
Super Dreadnought
2048 meter beam, 4096 meter keel
Titan
4096 meter beam, 8192 meter keel
Worldship
8192 meter beam, 16384 meter keel
(format is a bit off as a copy-pasted it, and I will be using this thread for more ideas.)
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Re: Ship-Measuring Contest
@Solar In all seriousness, if your frigates are dwarfed by my fighters you did something wrong.
Also, oops, I may have done something wrong. Are we supposed to post ship classifications or the actual sizes of our actual ship classes?
Also, oops, I may have done something wrong. Are we supposed to post ship classifications or the actual sizes of our actual ship classes?
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Classifications, most ppl here don't have a single actual ship in their arsenal.
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Okay, good, I guess?
Anyway, the reason I don't have sub-categories in the "small craft" category is because the differences are too much related to role rather than size to really put them in seperate size categories.
Anyway, the reason I don't have sub-categories in the "small craft" category is because the differences are too much related to role rather than size to really put them in seperate size categories.
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Re: Ship-Measuring Contest
Fighter-5m
Bomber-8m
Long range patrol ship-25m
Corvette-30m
Frigate-50m
Destroyer-135m
Line-ship-180m
Cruiser-235m
Carrier-400m
Heavy Cruiser-435m
Yyllos class Dreadnought-675m
Jtyyl class Dreadnought-855m
Gyygiis class Dreadnought-1100m
Aiigaiion class Super-Dreadnought(Titan)-3km long, 7km wide.
Bomber-8m
Long range patrol ship-25m
Corvette-30m
Frigate-50m
Destroyer-135m
Line-ship-180m
Cruiser-235m
Carrier-400m
Heavy Cruiser-435m
Yyllos class Dreadnought-675m
Jtyyl class Dreadnought-855m
Gyygiis class Dreadnought-1100m
Aiigaiion class Super-Dreadnought(Titan)-3km long, 7km wide.
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First I thought those were pretty small, but then I remembered Strigiforme ships typically are wider than they are long.
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Re: Ship-Measuring Contest
...zing?
Also, the "Titan" tree likely goes
Titan -> Leviathan -> Worldship -> NotBeenBuiltYetSoNoClue.
Ah yes, "Reaper".
Also, the "Titan" tree likely goes
Titan -> Leviathan -> Worldship -> NotBeenBuiltYetSoNoClue.
Ah yes, "Reaper".
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Re: Ship-Measuring Contest
Generally, NeoRome and the AUF define classes by their firepower, resilience, and agility. Out of 10, the classes are:
Corvette: F-1, R-1, A-10
Frigate: F-2, R-2, A-9
Cruiser: F-3, R-3, A-7
Heavy Cruiser: F-5, R-5, A-6
Destroyer: F-6, R-6, A-5
Battlecruiser: F-4, R-4, A-8
Battleship: F-7, R-7, A-4
Carrier: F-5, R-8, A-6
Dreadnought: F-8, R-9, A-3
Juggernaut: F-9, R-10, A-2
Titan: F-10, R-11, A-1
Leviathan: F-11, R-12, A-1
Gargantua: F-12, R-13, A-1
D-ARK: F-100, R-100, A-0
Corvette: F-1, R-1, A-10
Frigate: F-2, R-2, A-9
Cruiser: F-3, R-3, A-7
Heavy Cruiser: F-5, R-5, A-6
Destroyer: F-6, R-6, A-5
Battlecruiser: F-4, R-4, A-8
Battleship: F-7, R-7, A-4
Carrier: F-5, R-8, A-6
Dreadnought: F-8, R-9, A-3
Juggernaut: F-9, R-10, A-2
Titan: F-10, R-11, A-1
Leviathan: F-11, R-12, A-1
Gargantua: F-12, R-13, A-1
D-ARK: F-100, R-100, A-0
Re: Ship-Measuring Contest
We don't need room to fit organics, so our ships are generally going to be smaller but pack a similar if not larger punch.Ivan2006 wrote:@Solar In all seriousness, if your frigates are dwarfed by my fighters you did something wrong.
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Except you still need room ofr the dakka.Solar112 wrote:We don't need room to fit organics, so our ships are generally going to be smaller but pack a similar if not larger punch.Ivan2006 wrote:@Solar In all seriousness, if your frigates are dwarfed by my fighters you did something wrong.
You physically cannot fit the dakka and energy production of a frigate in a fighter-sized frame. That's ridiculous.
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Yeah. Energy generation can be only so miniaturized. And it'd be paper thin too.
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Except remember when I made the ME converter? yeah that takes up most of the fighters, the computer itself is a thin cylinder, and the weapons are mostly lasers which are only about a few cm wide. Since people are apparently complaining I'll work on the volume of each component, as I'd rather not do any more math for the ships...