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Re: DDs and FFs: Small hulls in the BB era and beyond

Fri, 24 October 2003 08:01

overworked

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zoid wrote on Thu, 23 October 2003 22:30

Okay, okay. I probably should have a large freighter design as well for my main transportation fleet. I didn't consider all the extra engines, nor the number of freighters I'd have to build. So, the idea of a multifunction galleon serving as the main transport fleet may indeed be less than a perfect idea, as you guys have been saying.

Still, my eyes have been opened to the usefulness of the galleon hull as a multi-role vessel filling the roles of several specialized ships that you don't need too many of. The galleon hull is one I've always ignored, preferring specialized vessels instead that only do a single thing (for the lower cost) without considering how few I might need. Funny how I could miss such an obvious thing in 8-9 years of Stars exposure (but then again, who wouldn't expect exactly that, from me?) Smile

It's all part of the bumbling-idiot persona that I nurture so carefully here. Laughing

I also wonder if part of it has to do with general game experiences. A recent analysis indicated that most of my multiplayer experience is team games (especially Xdude monster slogs with AFON starts) and running observer races in games I host. Scared

From the former I've generally been operating *large* fleets of max tech stage designs (or rapidly running towards that stage). Thus I am looking for efficiencies of scale and expecting to see tens of thousands of chaff, thousands of large freighters (I play IT a lot) Teleport

, etc. etc. where minor cost savings are multipled to a much greater extent than a smaller game where a design run is only going to be a couple hundred hulls.

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		DDs and FFs: Small hulls in the BB era and beyond By: overworked on Sat, 18 October 2003 21:50
		Re: DDs and FFs: Small hulls in the BB era and beyond By: freakyboy on Sun, 19 October 2003 07:51
		Re: DDs and FFs: Small hulls in the BB era and beyond By: iztok on Wed, 22 October 2003 07:23
		Re: DDs and FFs: Small hulls in the BB era and beyond By: Micha on Sun, 19 October 2003 18:14
		Re: DDs and FFs: Small hulls in the BB era and beyond By: iztok on Mon, 20 October 2003 03:03
		Re: DDs and FFs: Small hulls in the BB era and beyond By: Dark_Traveller on Mon, 20 October 2003 18:15
		Re: DDs and FFs: Small hulls in the BB era and beyond By: Labyndor on Mon, 20 October 2003 19:42
		Re: DDs and FFs: Small hulls in the BB era and beyond By: zoid on Tue, 21 October 2003 02:59
		Re: DDs and FFs: Small hulls in the BB era and beyond By: Dark_Traveller on Tue, 21 October 2003 11:29
		Re: DDs and FFs: Small hulls in the BB era and beyond By: Ashlyn on Tue, 21 October 2003 13:01
		Re: DDs and FFs: Small hulls in the BB era and beyond By: Dark_Traveller on Tue, 21 October 2003 15:55
		Re: DDs and FFs: Small hulls in the BB era and beyond By: Orca on Thu, 23 October 2003 13:52
		Re: DDs and FFs: Small hulls in the BB era and beyond By: Dark_Traveller on Thu, 23 October 2003 16:41
		Re: DDs and FFs: Small hulls in the BB era and beyond By: Zathras on Thu, 23 October 2003 20:21
		Re: DDs and FFs: Small hulls in the BB era and beyond By: zoid on Thu, 23 October 2003 22:30
		Re: DDs and FFs: Small hulls in the BB era and beyond By: overworked on Fri, 24 October 2003 08:01
		Re: DDs and FFs: Small hulls in the BB era and beyond By: Orca on Fri, 24 October 2003 11:39
		Re: DDs and FFs: Small hulls in the BB era and beyond By: zoid on Tue, 21 October 2003 22:07
		Re: DDs and FFs: Small hulls in the BB era and beyond By: Dark_Traveller on Sun, 19 October 2003 21:07
		Re: DDs and FFs: Small hulls in the BB era and beyond By: freakyboy on Fri, 24 October 2003 12:02
		Re: DDs and FFs: Small hulls in the BB era and beyond By: Micha on Fri, 24 October 2003 16:45
		Re: DDs and FFs: Small hulls in the BB era and beyond By: Sinla on Fri, 24 October 2003 22:36
		Re: DDs and FFs: Small hulls in the BB era and beyond By: Zathras on Fri, 24 October 2003 18:25
		Re: DDs and FFs: Small hulls in the BB era and beyond By: freakyboy on Fri, 24 October 2003 19:28
		Re: DDs and FFs: Small hulls in the BB era and beyond By: freakyboy on Sat, 25 October 2003 07:50
		Re: DDs and FFs: Small hulls in the BB era and beyond By: Sgt. Bulldog on Wed, 29 October 2003 09:27
		Re: DDs and FFs: Small hulls in the BB era and beyond By: zoid on Wed, 29 October 2003 18:41
		Re: DDs and FFs: Small hulls in the BB era and beyond By: iztok on Thu, 30 October 2003 07:02

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