Eclipse Class RELEASED

[Shadowknight1]

but it is skinnier than the galaxy, like the sovereign, it was longer but had a crew count of 750

The Sovereign's length comes mainly from her nacelles, and she's about half as tall as a Galaxy, so less room. ;)

[Darkthunder]

but it is skinnier than the galaxy, like the sovereign, it was longer but had a crew count of 750

Galaxy Class was 640 meters, and 43 decks.
Sovereign Class 685 meters, and 29 decks.

So while the Sovereign was longer, it was nowhere near as "massive" as the Galaxy Class.

[Cmdr. Madden]

DJ has mentioned in a previos post that it is 1000-1050 metres. She's a big baby.

He also mentioned that when he started redoing the textures, he scaled her down a bit.

Yeah, he mentioned the length of the Eclipse after he started redoing the textures. I used the length to figure out the crew count which came to 1705.

Edit:

The windows have also been scaled up, scaling down the overall size of the ship.  Probably expect it to weigh in around 1000-1050m long when finished.

How many people would this carry?

Seems like you could accomdate it for the entire population of London!

I calculate that the Eclipse can carry up to 1705 people.

Galaxy = 642m
Eclipse = 1050m

1050/642
= 1.64 to 2 d.p (64% increase

Galaxy can carry 1040 people.

1040 x 1.64 = 1705.6 round down to 1705 (cos you cant have 3/5 of a person ) = 1705 people.

Yay for maths lol.

just for kicks, should list crew compliment as 1701...... it's just too jucy not to (i realize though that there WERE calculations involved just so people don't think i was blindly posting idiocy...)

also, in support of previous posts, the galaxy class was designed as a multi role exploratory starship with defensive capabilities emphasized ie. enough on the weapons to get out of a scrap and shilds to adequately protect but large mass and less powerful engines (she can fight, don't get me wrong)
the soverign is more of a combat vessel. ie, she hits harder, takes a bigger beating and is faster and more agile, you can't have something the size of a galaxy move like the soverign purely because the engines aren't powerful enough and the structural integrity fields would need to keep up as well (probably something crazy like snapping in half during a backflip or the engines just flat out tearing themselves from the hull a la wile e cyote where he straps himself to the rocket and it takes off with his *ahem cough* pants leaving him alone and *ahem cough* pantsless)

[deadthunder2_0]

this doent look more than 27 decks, DJ how many are there

[DJ Curtis]

about 30-35 decks I think.

[deadthunder2_0]

1021 crewmen
so a deck is about 3 meters, so if you were to cut the ship into 3 meter wide sections, then you have it at about 350 3 meter sections.
seeing that each crewman needs about 15 meters of space to live, you get 29.695, multiply that by 35 and you get 1020.8333333333333333333333333333, not including families. Anyway the Galaxy class had about 350 civilians on board, and lets say the eclipse has 300, then you get about 721 as your answer.

[DJ Curtis]

I choose 76,512.  Because it's my ship and I get to choose.

[deadthunder2_0]

let's see, that is one person per square decimeter(for people that don't know that's 10 cm)

[eclipse74569]

I choose 76,512.  Because it's my ship and I get to choose.

Pwnd  :arms:

Still looking good though DJ Can't wait to see more

[DJ Curtis]

rofl

[DJ Curtis]

Ok folks, she's just about finished.  The Mvam sep and reintegration sequences have now been scripted, HP's are all done, icons, tactical displays, Submenu.  Just need to do some descriptions and then package it up with a readme and she's ready to be uploaded for Christmas.

[Dalek]

So the bussards wont be transparent at all then?

[Lionus]

*joygasm* 

[DJ Curtis]

So the bussards wont be transparent at all then?

not any time soon.  that being said, all the internal mesh is still there and textures.  however in the meantime I actually like the way it looks.

[Dalek]

And did something happen to your install? The pictures look very fuzzy and I can see stock backgrounds there.

[DJ Curtis]

res is just a bit lower and very little aa/af atm.  don't use km anymore either.  most of the ships are ugly.

[Shadowknight1]

don't use km anymore either.  most of the ships are ugly.

Then make better ones. ;) lol

Glad to see that the Eclipse is ready to go! 

[Tuskin38]

So the bussards wont be transparent at all then?

not any time soon.  that being said, all the internal mesh is still there and textures.  however in the meantime I actually like the way it looks.

Does that mean if we shoot the bussards we may see the collectors on the inside?

[DJ Curtis]

possible

[Adonis]

So the bussards wont be transparent at all then?

not any time soon.  that being said, all the internal mesh is still there and textures.  however in the meantime I actually like the way it looks.

Does that mean if we shoot the bussards we may see the collectors on the inside?

Yup, means exactly that.