' Wrote:in the juggernaut, you have a whole family living in a generous 6 room apartment with a nice patch of garden in the biodomes and a great amount of relaxation and distraction facilities ( no, not like a luxory liner, but you need such things when you consider it your home )
there you bring up two very interesting things:
1. if the whole family is with you on board then that would multiply the persons on board in range from 2 to 3: children wont work and not both people in a relation might be employed on the ship though it might be useful to just put families on the ship where both people contribute to ships everyday work. so there would be the demand of even more people aboard. the ship with its biodomes is supposed to stay in space for very long periods of time in contrast to that most of the other battleships do their patrol dutys and return to their homebase. this causes some needs for more people on board, think of doctors, daycare for the children while the parents work on the ship or sleep because they had nightshift and even the guy that cuts your hair or the preachers that take care of the religious stuff (no thats not absurd, we have those guys on a small ship like a frigate in real life if its going to take part in a several months long mission somewhere around the world).
2. the lux liner, my absolute favourite ship in the game, is really tiny compared to juggy and yet it should be able to house more people while offering all the luxury you can imagine? no, i think this is a thing where game mechanics just limit the realism, in my eyes the juggernaut has several thousand people on board while on routine flight. and this makes things really interesting if you ever come into a situation where it gets dangerous, you dont only have soldiers on board that are ok with the fact that they might die in a fight but also "civilians". the juggy is after all the last line of defense of the zoners where most people even think its just a zoners myth. for the normal military presence there is the ordinary aquilion carrier and the hordes of fearless/conference class ships.
well perhaps i see this completely wrong but i really like to see it this way cause i love big great looking ships that arent suitable for any kind of combat. its just my general dislike of pvp i guess;)
and the myth thingy about the juggernaut is well another thing that came down with the game mechanics, last week i logged into my juggy for the first time in over two months and when i launched there already where two other juggys hanging around the freeport, i docked and left the game and remember .84 when the juggernaut wasnt that beautiful and only a handful were flying aorund sirius:$
