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Dry Dock System or Reserve Fleet?
azurianstar
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With the new Dry Docking system coming out, I just wonder if Reserve Fleet is more a correct term for this new system?
For over five years now, we pretty much equated decomissioning our ships as merely getting rid of them. But with real Navies (which Gene Roddenberry took inspiration from), decomissioning ships doesn't mean immediately getting rid of them. The decomissioning process is where ships are taken off active duty and stripped of weapons and equipment and put into the Reserve Fleet. From there, ships could be called back into action, sold to other nations, sold for scrap, or used for other purposes like target practice, for artificial reefs, or a new life as a museum ship.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_fleet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_commissioning#Ship_decommissioning
While Dry Docking is a place where ships go into port to undergo repairs and refits.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_dock
So wouldn't it be better to rename Dry Docking as the Reserve Fleet system?
P.S.: Since we don't know the exact details of the new "Dry Dock" System, we don't know for sure if there are indeed ship storage limits and we still retaining the "Discharge" button.
For over five years now, we pretty much equated decomissioning our ships as merely getting rid of them. But with real Navies (which Gene Roddenberry took inspiration from), decomissioning ships doesn't mean immediately getting rid of them. The decomissioning process is where ships are taken off active duty and stripped of weapons and equipment and put into the Reserve Fleet. From there, ships could be called back into action, sold to other nations, sold for scrap, or used for other purposes like target practice, for artificial reefs, or a new life as a museum ship.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_fleet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_commissioning#Ship_decommissioning
While Dry Docking is a place where ships go into port to undergo repairs and refits.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_dock
A dry dock (sometimes dry-dock or drydock) is a narrow basin or vessel that can be flooded to allow a load to be floated in, then drained to allow that load to come to rest on a dry platform. Dry docks are used for the construction, maintenance, and repair of ships, boats, and other water craft.
So wouldn't it be better to rename Dry Docking as the Reserve Fleet system?
P.S.: Since we don't know the exact details of the new "Dry Dock" System, we don't know for sure if there are indeed ship storage limits and we still retaining the "Discharge" button.
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More important is where is this new system? Didn't they say it would be released with season 11?
Live Long And Suck It. - Wil Weaton
Yes. Because this was something here and now that could have been better. At this point, it would be nice if anything was better. Even a tiny amount would indicate that someone somewhere had a clue.
It can be said of anything and everything. Thus it's almost like saying you don't have a complaint, but are complaining anyways.
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It's a flat error by someone without any background knowledge of the subject. Thus "Could have been better" is a understatement. Words like "ignorant" and "illiterate" (i.e. couldn't even look it up on the web) are better suited. Forgive my overly polite version you quoted.
Doesn't change the fact that the OP has a valid point.
I can understand the desire to avoid the use of the term "fleet". As far as the term "drydock"...I see the points that are being made, usually a ship in drydock is out of service for an extended period of time. Maybe substitute the term "Ready Reserve"? As in the ships are ready to go but the number available is constrained by available personnel to crew them (represented by your ship slots)? Just some thoughts.
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