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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Dukhat: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Nim: But it makes sense, if you have a large aging fleet and an impending invasion, to upgrade what you have as much as you can and as fast as you can, instead of building entirely new classes from scratch that need shakedown cruises and working out bugs.[/QUOTE]Who said anything about building new ships? Starfleet already had 45+ starship classes (not even including the DS9 kitbashes and whatever decommissioned ship types were in the Qualor II surplus depot), and over half that number were seen on screen at one time or another. So, where were they all during the Dominion war fleet scenes? Why did the bulk of the fleet only contain five classes, two of which were outdated? [QUOTE]Originally posted by PsyLiam: The models may not physically age, but from a software point of view they do. Unless they keep updating them all the time, it means when they go back to an old model they have to spend ages getting them to work in the new software.[/QUOTE]Exactly. Which is why whoever said they still have the ship meshes and backgrounds, that's pretty meaningless because they were all from 20 years ago, and I'd think it would be more work trying to remap all that stuff for a newer software system than to just start from scratch with new CGI ships. [QUOTE]MAYBE change one or two ships, but if we get to Sacrifice of Angels that the fleet is suddenly made up of all new design, it would feel wrong.[/QUOTE]Why? It would be a more realistic representation of Starfleet as a whole, and wouldn't make Starfleet look so desperate as to be using such outdated ships for the bulk of their fleet. [QUOTE]As for the ages of the fleets... how do we know that the Cardassian ships weren't 60 year old designs? The Galaxy out-classed the Galor-class, from what I remember.[/QUOTE]Since it was seen that the Dominion shipyards were producing these ships brand-new, I would speculate that they weren't that old. [QUOTE]The Klingons certainly didn't mind going into battle with 100 year-old ship designs...[/QUOTE]Yeah, and I have an issue with that as well, since the reason why the BoP was used in the first place was because of the same early budgetary concerns TNG had. The model just happened to be lucky enough to survive being scanned into a CGI model. But I don't think it's realistic for them to still be using such outdated ships. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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