Voyager - Um... How big is that thing, again?

[Fluffyball]

Yeah, I've noticed a small imcompability with both cockpit size and ship size...


However, what surprised me even more was the description:


Either model has been needlessly resized or ship is made for ants, I daresay.

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[Pavel]

If you think ship infocards and model sizes are all balanced and comparable...you're gonna have a bad time.

[Fluffyball]

It's just about it should be made just 2x bigger... I don't want to be laughed upon for claiming I can have 5 people on a ship with size of a fighter.

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[Sciamach]

Objects in game are different sizes than they appear

the LABC should be about the size of an Overlord

to the same scale, all larger fighters should be about the size of a Libby

ships in-game retain their current sizes for balance reasons

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[Haste]

Remember vanilla freelancer? That scene where miniscule little trent stands next to that HUGE starflier?

Yeah, uh, ships in general are pretty big. Quite sure the Voyager is larger than a Starflier.

Also what everyone above said, more or less.

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[Alestone]

If you want some actual physics, 1 tonne of hydrogen displaces 13.5 kiloliters. On the potentially inaccurate idea that a cargo unit is a tonne, you can get a hold volume by multiplying the cargo capacity by 13.5 and expressing it in kiloliters.

Using that formula, 505 *13.5kL = 6817.5 kiloliters or 6.8 megaliters. A 1200 square foot house with 8 foot ceilings equates to roughly 8861 kiloliters, and that is only the hold, not including whatever crew accommodations are built in. Knock that down to the same 8 foot ceilings, and you get roughly a 923 square foot space.

I realize that is all swag, but the whole game is horribly imprecise when it comes to figuring this sort of thing out.

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[Thyrzul]

If you want some actual physics, 1 tonne of hydrogen displaces 13.5 kiloliters. On the potentially inaccurate idea that a cargo unit is a tonne, you can get a hold volume by multiplying the cargo capacity by 13.5 and expressing it in kiloliters.

Using that formula, 505 *13.5kL = 6817.5 kiloliters or 6.8 megaliters. A 1200 square foot house with 8 foot ceilings equates to roughly 8861 kiloliters, and that is only the hold, not including whatever crew accommodations are built in. Knock that down to the same 8 foot ceilings, and you get roughly a 923 square foot space.

I realize that is all swag, but the whole game is horribly imprecise when it comes to figuring this sort of thing out.

Of course it looks horrbily imprecise if you begin your calculations by defining "cargo unit" as a weight unit for the commodity and not a volume unit for the cargo hold. That however won't mean that it is indeed that imprecise or that your calculations make any sense.

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[zslayern]

Trent vs Starflier

[Fluffyball]

So ships were sized down then, as pilot in Eagle alone is kinda... bigger 1.5x times?

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