Kagura Nikon wrote:
Wrong. Simmetry needs a reason. Assimetry is the natural way ANY engineering project grows. If you need a device added to your project you find best place and put it there. making a second one to put on other side so it would be simmetrical is IDIOCY.
Only designers care for simmetry (and aerodynamics experts on a lesser degree).
No, that is not true. We are not talking about minor parts; we're talking about the structure/superstructure. "Natural" has nothing to do with engineering.
Small parts like machine guns or night sights on a tank won't be symmetrical, but the overall hull form of the tank will be.. because it is equally likely to need to engage targets on either side.
No one puts a second device on the other side for artistic symmetry, but only semantic pedants would point that out. Devices that need to be on both sides for full coverage (for example, point defense emplacements) will be.
Quote:that makes sense when you build things in assembly lines and pieces are just connected and done.
Ships in eve are even larger than real live ships. And NEVER a ship is made like that. Things this size are build in ways that do not care for these properties.
You are not talking about a car with 3 meters here. You are talking about ships with half a km LONG!! Adding a new piece on other side just to make simmetrical will add THOUSANDS of tons of steel! Also internals of ships in real life are NOWHERE near simmetric therefore the pieces from left size of the ships are NOT interchangeable with the ones on right side anyway.
Makign simmetric Huge structures is LESS efficient!!
Just pay attention, military equipment around the world is basically the only place where you find assimetry. Why? BEcause military equipment cannot bother with "looking cool". They need to be efficient. The simmetry is kept up to a level for some logical reasons. A plane must have 2 equal sides to fly correctly.
But a tank have a coaxial gun on only 1 side. They have a search light on one side.
A carrier does nto have an island on each side of the runway, because 1 is enough!
Comemricial buildigns are simemtrical, because people care for it. Industrial buildings are not, because making them simmetrical would be a wastage!
Buildings do not move. Objects that need to move and fight are symmetrical because it is easier to design propulsion and arrange weapons and sensor coverage that way.
It doesn't matter how big ships in EVE are; there is no arbitrary size where asymmetry becomes the norm.
Furthermore, no one is talking about making every tiny bit symmetrical, either in EVE or in real life. It's about the overall hull form. Remember that aircraft carrier? it's lower hull IS symmetrical to make it pass through water more easily and with less complex design.
Britain had asymmetrical battleships in WWI. Some battleships had main battery turrets on the sides, and some were offset fore and aft so that they could (theoretically) fire a full broadside. It didn't work. Eventually the idea was abandoned and in-line turrets like the U.S. used became the norm. Look up the Neptune and Colossus class ships.
Aysmmetry without a specific reason is ******* STUPID.