Klaus Kipling
Mongoose
OK, I've actually looked into this. Not forensically, with magnifying glass and notebook, but still...
Who stole the airlocks? Examining TMB corrected deckplans, T&G, HG, and Fighting Ships, it would seem the OTU needs to invent the transporter get on or off their vessels.
Coming top, with 3 hatches apiece, are the Type S and the A2. Most of the other civillian vessels have one or perhaps two, and some of the military ones (though often the single airlock opens onto the bridge!). The only capital ship to have any airlocks at all is the superfreighter, which has a dedicated EVA deck.
I understand how this might happen. When you have several multideck ships to spec out, an airlock might get forgotten. Maybe Mongoose should put the deckplan-droids in an airlock when they are working to remind them of their utility. :twisted:
On a second note, and I guess this will become less of an issue as capital ship plans are rethunk, but could we get some with a more interesting layout than an up/down - left/right grid system. The squares are just there to aid our sense of scale, not a physical law as to how ships must be laid out.
Curved hulls should have curved corridors and walls, not lots of square spaces with odd shaped rooms at the edges.
A circular vessel, like a Plankwell, should really look more like the saucer of the Enterprise than New York.
Who stole the airlocks? Examining TMB corrected deckplans, T&G, HG, and Fighting Ships, it would seem the OTU needs to invent the transporter get on or off their vessels.
Coming top, with 3 hatches apiece, are the Type S and the A2. Most of the other civillian vessels have one or perhaps two, and some of the military ones (though often the single airlock opens onto the bridge!). The only capital ship to have any airlocks at all is the superfreighter, which has a dedicated EVA deck.
I understand how this might happen. When you have several multideck ships to spec out, an airlock might get forgotten. Maybe Mongoose should put the deckplan-droids in an airlock when they are working to remind them of their utility. :twisted:
On a second note, and I guess this will become less of an issue as capital ship plans are rethunk, but could we get some with a more interesting layout than an up/down - left/right grid system. The squares are just there to aid our sense of scale, not a physical law as to how ships must be laid out.
Curved hulls should have curved corridors and walls, not lots of square spaces with odd shaped rooms at the edges.
A circular vessel, like a Plankwell, should really look more like the saucer of the Enterprise than New York.
