MINA Longstrike
Kirjuun Heiian
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Posted - 2015.06.01 08:33:00 -
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Squagga wrote:I know you guys hate my good ideas. Cause you want shotguns to do more damage. But seriously, why don't EVE pilots have war barges, and bring us to the districts we fight for?
Because the warbarges belong to us? Y'know the number of battles fought every day isn't actually the 'real' number fought fluff wise, battles are much less common. We're (lore wise) supposed to actually be flying our own warbarges/mobile oppression palaces to districts and doing our own fighting.
I mathed out numbers based on presumed 'readied' clone counts for warbarges and calculated rough sizes off of them and warbarges are essentially akin to being small capital ships... and we each own one (that we either stole, had an empire give to us, or built ourselves - rattati supported this bit of player fluff).
An eve player would essentially be flying a freighter around for the size of our warbarges and I think further fluff would basically be that concord doesn't let eve pilots engage our warbarges (just like they cant shoot at planets without us providing targeting data for them).
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MINA Longstrike
Kirjuun Heiian
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Posted - 2015.06.11 06:49:00 -
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Andris, warbarges don't exist in eve.
I did some theoretical math for their size based off of the size of a clone vat bay (and the need to carry about 30 'active' clones per 'personal' warbarge, with the ability to rapidly produce new clones out of stored biomass and materials) and basically it came down to averaging out the amount of clone vat bays used on titans, motherships and rorquals to get a number of ~6 clone vat bay components (10000m3 each) per clone in storage. This came out to about 1.8million m3 for just the cloning/medical facilities of an individual mercs warbarge.
To give a sense of scale for that, think football field length * football field length * football field length * 2. There might be ways to cut it down to roughly half the size (so ~100m * 100m * 100m of volume).
Then I made attempts to account for vehicle storage, RDV bays, MCC bays, production facilities and all the other stuff our warbarges are supposed to have along with weapon systems and means of propulsion, and I came up with a number of about ~5million m3 give or take a couple million m3, which puts it at roughly 1/3rd to 1/2 the size of an eve freighter.
I also managed to dig up this document: https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/New_Eden_crew_guidelines which provides crew guidelines for various ships in eve... and I figured that warbarges would probably be carrying a LOT of 'regular' soldiers to fight on the planet, while the actual immortals fought the things that would otherwise be considered suicide.
We'd probably have a 'regular' crew of about 300-1000 (depending on the race of warbarge) and compliment it with an actual 'army' of around 5000-15000 regular soldiers per warbarge. Which kind of gives it an awesome starship troopers feeling, with a badass immortal commander... enjoy.
Hnolai ki tuul, ti sei oni a tiu. Kirjuun Heiian.
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