WildWeasel
Spaceman
My point (which you conveniently overlooked) was that regardless of how you measure it, it's still the same.
How many fighters does the Vesuvius class carry?
- Thread starter dacis2
- Start date
KrisV
Administrator
The Ships Database entries for the Vesuvius and Concordia classes have been updated.
https://www.wcnews.com/ships/wc4carrier.shtml
https://www.wcnews.com/ships/wc4supercarrier.shtml
https://www.wcnews.com/ships/wcsosupercarrier.shtml
https://www.wcnews.com/ships/wc4carrier.shtml
https://www.wcnews.com/ships/wc4supercarrier.shtml
https://www.wcnews.com/ships/wcsosupercarrier.shtml
Last edited:
I'm thinkin...
Spaceman
Because the Midway has the ability to deploy an entire company of Marines. Basically it serves as a mobile base of operations for just about anything Confed needs. Just because its classified as a megacarrier doesn't necessarily mean it has a huge fighter complement.
ChrisReid
Super Soaker Collector / Administrator
To follow that line of thinking, some bases have relatively light fighter complements compared to some carriers. If a Vesuvius were in the Midway's position during Prophecy (and there was one, the Eisen), it would have contributed a lot in sheer number of fighters, but probably would not have had the facilities to backward engineer alien technology, land combat teams to take over Nephilim capital ships and bases and do all that stuff relating to mounting the Plasma cannon.
Well since we are talking about the binary system here, everything doesn't round up to a nice power of 10 number. This is why 1kb of memory is actually 1024 bytes (they just round down to the nearest power of ten number - 2^10=1024=1kB). Therefore since I think 2 terabytes is 2x10^12, we just find the highest number in the binary system that is just higher than 2x10^12 which is 2^41=2199023255552 bytes. multiply this times 8 bits in a byte and you have the very unfriendly number of 17592186044416 bits. Correct me if I'm wrong, it's been a while since I've had my microprocessor programming class.
C-ya
Bandit LOAF
Long Live the Confederation!
Because it's a heavy carrier (heavy carriers use Vampires and Devastators) that's not Midway class. Process of elimination.
OriginalPhoenix
Professor Emeritus
Do we REALLY need to go into THIS again...?
Heh.
We just argued over this, what, two months ago?
IIRC, there were a lot of compelling arguments for why the Eisen was a Vesuvius, but the most compelling was this:
"Origin said so."
If you anyone REALLY wants to read through it, then go dig through the old messages. It may still be around.
WildWeasel
Spaceman
Specifically, Johnny said so.
Bandit LOAF
Long Live the Confederation!
That was the Mt. St. Helens.
Wedge009
Rogue Leader
That's just what's in the game, those stats are from the novels.
The Midway and Vesuvius classes are both heavy carriers. "Megacarrier" and "supercarrier" are just catchy terms with no real meaning behind them.
I seriously doubt either were intended to take on fleets on their own. The Midway, at least, is simply an economical replacement for the Confederation's ageing fleet - it's designed to operate on its own in peacetime, but it would be the flagship of a carrier group formation in wartime.
I think it was accepted quite a while back that it was simply a mistake (or lack of thinking) on the part of the animators... but I could be wrong.
No, that's pretty much right.
Only two months? I thought it was much more than that... maybe I just missed that one.
The script for the "Viral Legacy" cutscene names the Vesuvius class carrier as "Mt St Helens".