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5 decks on the B'Rel?

fovrelfovrel Member Posts: 1,448 Arc User
Really? I bought this ship and I do love it. Now these tiny white spots on the ships, I suppose they are windows. I have mixed feelings about them. At first they make things impressive. Oh look at that, there are a lot of windows. These are all personel quarters, there are a lot of people on that ship, it must be huge.

However they also make the ship look like a big show boat. The B'Rel has 30 man crew, it is a small vessel. On the lower part of the hull, below the wings, I count 5 rows of white spots. It looks like it has five decks. It doesn't make any sense. I laid along side a big Fed ship and that one got also a lot of windows, about five rows, but the hull was twice as heigh.

Overall I am positive about ship design. I also understand that the game makers have to look at Holywood, but on many ships there are small things that do not make sense or are just silly.
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  • nileight1nileight1 Member Posts: 249 Arc User
    edited December 2012
  • fovrelfovrel Member Posts: 1,448 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    nileight1 wrote: »

    Nice link, thanks. Deck 5 and 6 seems to me half decks. But this is not the ship I have; they are different designed.

    The STO neck is longer and thinner. I can hardly imagine that there are two decks in it. This also tells us something about the scale, how a man compares to the ship. I also said that the five decks are under the wing. The six decks in your pic cover the whole hull. The STO B'Rel should have, considering 5 decks for 3/5 of hull height, about 8 decks.

    Or, if we work from this picture, there should be three rows of windows at the lower part of the hull.
  • tlamstriketlamstrike Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    Yea the scales of a lot of Star Trek Online ships are off. The BoP is just one in STO, also look at the Chimera, its meant to be a large escort but its scaled down from a Cruiser (I guess each deck must have two or three sets of windows and there are a lot of skylights in the saucer!) Don't even get started on the Shuttle/Runabout scaling issues.

    You might find this interesting:
    http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/articles/bop-size.htm
    My Romulan Liberated Borg character made it to Level 30 and beat the (old) Defense of New Romulus with the skill point bug. :D
  • nileight1nileight1 Member Posts: 249 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    The scale on the shows seems to change from episode to episode.
    They have explained in other threads that they don't always go by the specs of ships for scale so that the smaller ships don't get lost next to the big ones.
    Just look at the shuttles.
    Sometimes fun and aesthetics trumps realism.
  • lordfuzunlordfuzun Member Posts: 54 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    Small craft are scale to each other. As are Starships scaled to each other. The reason for small crafting appearing larger in scale than starships is because they need to be seen in the game. A TOs Type-F shuttle is tiny even at it's current scale. If you zoom out, a Type F shuttel can barely been seen if your are looking for it. At the starship scale, if would would be nothing more then a few pixels on the screen.
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