Alica Wildfire
Minmatar
Federal Investigations Agency
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Posted - 2011.01.23 19:58:00 -
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While I can't tell you if SW or ST is tougher cause I lack the nerdy skills for that, I'd guess that the Battlestar Galactica indeed is comparable to the Typhoon class battleship as stated before.
From the look the Machariel is comparable but not from the ship. Definitly Typhoon, armor tanking battleship with multiple weapon systems.
For the drones. In old times there was the drone interfacing skill actually not enhancing drone firepower by 20% but indeed there were up to 10 drones to launch with this. And a drone in EVE, even a small fighter drone, has definitly the size and firepower of a fighter in SW or Battlestar Galactica.
And even if you only get actual pilots in Figher and Figher Bombers that are launched from Carriers in EVE nobody should forget that those things are more cruisersized than anything. (Sig of a Fighter is 100, Sig of a Scythe Fleet Issue -as a small example- not more than 90.
Cruisersized drones. This is definitly not that humansized "F16" type of fighter the usual SciFi is talking about. Small drones are more like that and even with EVE (and old game mechanics that were nerfed due to lag) the average ship was able to launch 10 of them.
So an EVE Carrier is outclassing a Battlestar by far in size and capabilities. And carriers like in EVE are also hard to find in other SciFi. Most hangars - even the big ones in SW - hardly take more than EVE frigate class ships inside.
Frigate class would be more like medium to heavy drones.
So the carrier capabilities of a Typhoon class battleship exceeds those of BS Galactica by quality and by quantity just because of game mechanics.
What I often see when I follow fictional stories in EVE universe is what I often see as a problem of fan fiction: people stick to the limits of game mechanics instead that they try to imagine what this is really all about.
We are not bound to our ships and never set foot on station just because walking on station is not implemented yet. We are not unable to go planetside just because PI just shows us our facilities there and nothing more.
Space travel from planet to a stargate is not done in a few seconds. This is all a kind of compromise to make the game work. It is already boring to fly 600 au in a freighter. Imagine every warp would be realistic and we were caught there for hours.
It is not impossible to build up a bubble in hisec just because the game mechanic is disableing that. We Minmatar are not stripped from our tattoos just because those are not implemented yet in the last patch.
Imagine this world. If you try to write your fiction in it - in your mind on paper - you have get rid of the limitations of game mechanics without spoiling the fine power balance in this world.
And this is why I think the Typhoon is the correct answer to this question. If you forget about the game mechanics a bit (a bit!) I'd say this is it.
And if I would write EVE fiction, there would be pilots in drones. Or at least the things we see as drones are like the one-man fighters we know of other SciFi. Maybe it is right not to put a human in that thing, cause there is no reason we will see humans in the next fighter-plane on earth anymore. Maybe twenty years? Then the typical pilot is gone and history and dogfights will be done by AI pilots that can pull incredible G forces without getting a blackout.
+1 Typhoon. Definitively.
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