Dab, even though they might be many meters across (and I certainly respect the scale in Freelancer, I realise that they're really very massive), the proportion of size to support would only get worse with size - you increase their size, you increase their inertia, weight, etc.... and you increase the instability of the structure, and it's more liable to break apart and be much less strong. It'd be more stable if it were smaller, is what I'm saying.
Additionally, right angles are a very bad thing to be using in support like this, especially in such a gangly structure.
Maybe if it was entirely straight, it could support itself and not fall to pieces... but angles like that radically weaken the entire thing. The entire thing screams structural instability, even if you factor "advanced construction techniques" in, like carbon tubing and nanostructures, etc.
And yes, I'm schooled in these areas.
I went through a year of drafting/architecture classes before deciding that I like Gram stains and scalpels better than drafting tables and rulers.
' Wrote:Dab, even though they might be many meters across (and I certainly respect the scale in Freelancer, I realise that they're really very massive), the proportion of size to support would only get worse with size - you increase their size, you increase their inertia, weight, etc.... and you increase the instability of the structure, and it's more liable to break apart and be much less strong. It'd be more stable if it were smaller, is what I'm saying.
Additionally, right angles are a very bad thing to be using in support like this, especially in such a gangly structure.
Maybe if it was entirely straight, it could support itself and not fall to pieces... but angles like that radically weaken the entire thing. The entire thing screams structural instability, even if you factor "advanced construction techniques" in, like carbon tubing and nanostructures, etc.
And yes, I'm schooled in these areas.
I went through a year of drafting/architecture classes before deciding that I like Gram stains and scalpels better than drafting tables and rulers.
Unfortunately, right angles are unavoidable when putting FL bases together. Besides, most of the base models already use right angles, and many of the object-added designs have them as well, from Vanilla. So right angles fit the design scheme common in FL.
Also, there isn't a whole lot of inertia for a station that doesn't ever move, and sits in space, motionless... Also, the station weighs 0 lbs.. Since weight doesn't exist in space, only mass. And since there is no intertia, the value of its mass means very little.
I'll grant that you can make fantastic structures in space due to the lack of forces.
Let's just hope that there's never a gravitational pull or attack on the station, eh? (Which is somewhat unlikely.)
I'd make a joke about gravity and a Juggernaut docking, but I thought it would be more clever to do it indirectly with this statement.
Technically, in-RP, a Juggernaut can't actually dock anything. It can moor to stations properly equipped for it, and uses a shuttle everywhere else. But it never actually 'docks', though you may be able to consider pulling into a shipyard array as docking, but that's the closest it ever gets, in-RP.
Well, technically "docking" would refer to "mooring," while "landing" would be actually landing inside it. But yes, I'm quite aware of how capital ships function and I know that a juggernaut wouldn't literally be landing on the station. 'Twas a jest.
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