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Learol
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Posted - 2009.02.17 05:25:00 -
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your free to shout at me if this has been mentioned before, my research methods are somewhat lacking.
whatÆs the "deal" with assembly? automated drones? built in installations? nannite assemblers pree-packaged? memory form alloy realignment?
has this been toughly explained while I was dosing off in the corner? if so could you link the appropriate info, if not, discus :)
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Myrhial Arkenath
Ghost Festival
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Posted - 2009.02.17 07:59:00 -
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It is somewhat like assembling a car. You buy the frame, you put an engine in it and some other stuff. Ship hulls come with an engine but you put turrets or launchers on there, as well as other modules to tweak it to your liking.
I think they are in most cases assembled by crew, aided by drones, because humans are just more capable to do certain tasks than machines.
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Verone
Gallente Veto Corp
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Posted - 2009.02.17 12:09:00 -
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I always kinda had it in my mind that ships are constructed in sections, or modules, basically subframes and sub-structuctures that are then all brought together, before being assembled and having the relevant components (propulsion, engineering, life support, hardponts etc) added. Then the ship is skinned with it's outer hull and armor.
Basically, I always thought of the "repackaging" action as the ship being unskinned and broken down into it's component sections or modules (kind of like T3 ships can be, but without the versatility) before being loaded into a freighter or whatever to be transported.
Of course the initial construction would be the same as our modern day shipbuilding I guess, with a huge scaffold supporting the vessel from the keel up as it's put together, from there the ship could be broken down into parts to be transported before being "re-assembled".
At least, this is how I've always thought of it so don't take this as being canon or anything.
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Che Biko
Polytechnique Gallenteenne
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Posted - 2009.02.17 23:49:00 -
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Because fitting, repackaging, assembling, and moving stuff from place to place takes place almost instantly a lot of the time, I suspect transporters are involved, like in Star Trek, only a lot faster.
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Marine HK4861
Caldari Radical Technologies
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Posted - 2009.02.18 17:36:00 -
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This is done for gameplay over fluff reasons.
Waiting several hours to days waiting for an item to be repackaged before you could move it would be an unnecessary time sink.
Kinda of like how modules can be swapped almost immediately while in station instead of the several hours of removing the old module, fitting the new one in, connecting it all up, double checking the fittings and trouble shooting any control/wiring/unexpected problems that occur, before you can even board the ship, let alone undock.
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