G-Tech Corporation wrote:Fata wrote:Why when you guys argue about fighters, do you always say stuff like, "if it can damage a capital ship..." or "What if there are multiple capital ships?" I was in the assumption that you would have one or two capital ships and then the rest of your navy, because if every one of you ships is a "Capital ship" then it is just the norm and can then be considered your frigate or another general ship class. It kinda doesn't make any sense now that I think about it cause my capital ship could be smaller than you frigate and... but... *mental breakdown.*
I have no idea where I am going with this. But I always hear most of you talking about tech wanking, but most of you do it, whether it is on purpose or just an automatic reaction cause by the human condition that makes us all want a bigger stick then thine neighbor but I don't know. It just makes be angry how the norm of ships sizes in FT has gotten to the point where it is pretty much a moving battle station and it could destroy a planet with a press of a button and where pretty much people who like to have smaller conceivable ships are forced to spend countless hours in the early morning contemplating how in the world they are to combat such ships, but eventually coming to the conclusion that the only way to do so is by story handwavium by which any ship can destroy another purely just for the sake of the story. And they will probably come to the even more depressing conclusion that they will keep adding stuff onto their ship and in the end they will have to add countless weapons and technologies that these hypothetical "big boy space races" have already developed completely draining creativity from the experience of nations states, and cause it to no longer be any fun.
Or maybe its just me.
Your entire post is why my ships of the line are precisely a hundred and eight meters in length from stem to stern.
Because it makes me chuckle.
I agree with both of you. You'll see this in the next installment of the EFR.