Unity class Liberty Carrier

[pchwang]

Quick point...

The flat deck, in my opinion, would be undesirable. With weapons or not, it is essentially a large, flat surface for projectile weapons to take advantage of and rip through. Over the years, science has shown that hulls with circular(or other non-flat designs) are stronger and more resistant that other hulls.

A few examples: A torpedo will more likely glance off a circular hull, and explode outside the ship, while the same torpedo may fly straight into the flat surface, penetrate the armor, and detonate inside the ship, causing far more damage.

When you have two planes of equal surface area, one flat: | and the other, curved: ) , the flat plane is a larger target. Easier for SNs to score hits.

Finally, the launch deck itself. In modern Aircraft carriers, the only place to launch aircraft is from a flat surface, the deck, due to the need to overcome the forces of gravity, as well as to provide aircraft with a stable platform to stand on before takeoff.

In space, this is wholly unnecessary. There is little or no gravitational interference(at least according to game mechanics, Stationary caps near planets should be falling into them...), and thus, no flat platform is needed. Instead, it would be more logical for the carriers of FL to have multiple launch sites, instead of restricting themselves to one, and making the rest of the ship a plow/icebreaker design.

Taking into account the massive capabilities of fighters and bombers in freelancer, a carrier probably needs no more than 6-8 Launch slots for it to be a devastatingly effective weapon(in addition to guns, of course) against normal capital ships.

We could launch 6-8 fighters one by one from the deck, or we could launch them from 6-8 ports lining the side of the ship, 3-4 on each side of the ship. The sooner these fighters get into space, the better.

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[7:42:05 PM][6:51:36 PM] Igor (Smokey): btw terry
[6:51:48 PM] Terrance Cooper: Ye?
[6:52:00 PM] Igor (Smokey): nothin
[6:52:03 PM] Igor (Smokey): just sayin btw
[6:52:05 PM] Terrance Cooper: <_<

Johnny_Haas: you shot anti criuse speed rockets!!!
Johnny_Haas: but why????
Johnny_Haas: ??
Johnny_Haas: why you shoot criuse speed rockets?