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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] Indeed. Mind you, I'd caution against oversimplifying your perception of some of these ships based on the registry alone. I remember back in the old ASDB days we had very lengthy discussions about just this sort of thing. My feeling was always to keep the general "feel" of the era a ship was from without resorting to the kind of unimaginative component swapping a lot of fan designers lean on. I also liked to mix things up a bit so that just because the two or three ships we know of from one of these classes had regs within a certain range, that need not require them to have originated from the corresponding era. Take the Hokule'a for example; a 10000 range reg as I recall, but we chose to make it a derivative of the Excelsior design, with the Tripoli being from a later production batch. Same story with the Antares, (which I thought of as being somewhat related to the Hokule'a) a higher number but again, a late build or even refit of an even older design (late 2260's/early '70's.) The logic as far as I was concerned was that the big ships of the line come and go, but the utilitarian designs are the ones that stick around longer. I also rather dislike the ridged idea that each era *must* have a "configurational equivalent" of the Miranda, the Constellation, the Constitution etc. etc. To me that's just coming at a design problem from entierly the wrong angle. Just take a look at the history of aviation and you won't see a nice neat progression from one era of craft to the next you'll see a process of trial and error shaped by the circumstances of the day. Sure there's a clear technological progression but there's also countless dead enders, failed experiments, promising designs that were sunk for political or commercial reasons, exotic designs that innovated and went way out there but were never followed up and just straight-forward no frills work horses. More than anything, what I tried to do with all of my designs is to come up with ships that were A) NOT kit-bashes B) could add something new or different into the mix and C) look cool and unique. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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