DN lenght

  • I want the 22km long original

    Votes: 36 81.8%

  • Make it 2.2km long.

    Votes: 6 13.6%

  • No make it different ( other lenght should be posted )

    Votes: 2 4.5%
  • Total voters
    44
gevatter Lars

gevatter Lars

Vice Admiral
Here you can vot for how long the DN should be.
If you don't like the 2 options I gave you tell me what you think how long it should be.
 
I think you could forget about the exact length and just make it relatively bigger than any other ship. Like, if the Concordia (a huge ship) is 1,800 meters long, make the Dreadnought 3 or 4 times more than that, just making sure that the Dreadnought length impresses people.
 
Make it FULL size, with behemoth in there it'll be fine, remember it has a huge weak spot at the front... missile magazines...
 
What on earth is the purpose of this Thread? Are you actually considering making a dreadnought? What is this all about?
 
A 22km long DN:eek:
What a battle that would make. However you should keep everything in the same scale so that it will be impresive.
Can't wait to ice it:D
 
->Darkmage
How do you know that the Cats have there Missile magazine at the front?
I can't remember that it was mentiont anywhere

->pygmypiranha
Wildweasel is right I am asking for WC:Saga a FS2 TC. I had a discussion with some of the team members and we have different opinions about the DN. So we/I desided to let the player vote for it.

->Battle the DN
I have thought about a battle with one of this things, maybe it will make it into my campain I am writing at the moment.
 
I just wonder if it is even possible to implement a 22km dreadnought. The Tiamat was supposed to be 3km, and the Midway was 1.8km - one of the cool things about the Vision engine was that you didn't zip past capships in a few seconds anymore. :)

I know you're doing in FS2, but having a ship longer than 12 Midways end to end... like the Battle of Terra, wouldn't that crash even today's computers?
 
Well, the Midway didn't look like 1.8 km in WCP either, as far as I can remember. The Colossus was about 6 km long... four Colossi... :eek: Oh man, I have GOT to fly around one of THOSE! Just think about the atmosphere you'd get with the track Exodus! LOADS of turret-fire and flak all over the scene... Hehe, that would OWN!
 
It did too seem that long... being that all the ships in Prophecy were correctly scaled!
 
I'm sure it was to scale, but I didn't exactly feel like I was zooming past a 1800-meter long egg-basket. Independence War had the same 'problem' - a Mega Freighter is... well, long, and it felt like maybe a third of Midway's length. Meh, blame the relativity-theory!
 
I got hte distinct feeling that the ships in FS2 were much larger than the ships in WCP. Dogfighting around one owas just cool.
 
hehehe, port them to vegastrike, and help me get more ships ingame. I really wanted all the ships done before release.
 
I always wondered how they were supposed to take out that DN in False colors until I read that part. I don't think it could be "destroyed" any other way.

I'd have to vote for make it a good size but don't be restrained to the 22km. I never saw this scene myself (even though I went up against teh DN in WC3 with both losing and winning reults) but apparently there is a scene with the dreadnaught with the Victory in it (ramming it or something). I'd say just take teh length of the Victory and extrapolate the DN size from it.

Something has always bothered me about the DN and I sat down with my trusty TI-89 and did some figuring and found out why. THe dreadnaught is not massive enough ot be that long. The DN is 22 times longer than the Bhuntkara carrier but only 3 times as massive. If you do this comparison with other Kilrathi Capships you'll find the same disproportion. THe mass seems to correspond to a 2.2km ship.

C-ya
 
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