Lt. Staplic wrote:to short?
the primary pair of nacelles are 200m long, the second set 120m long according to the scale I used.
Exactly. The Connie's nacelles are about 150m long - half the length of the ship. Most of the fast ships - the Sov, the Prommie, etc, have a similar or only slightly smaller proportion. The Paladin could probably get away with having the nacelles shorter, given that there's four of them and it isn't a particularly fast ship, but the extra mass of the armour would compensate for that. I'd say the nacelles need to be 300-350 m long, probably towards the upper end of that range, and scaled similarly to the Sov's or Prommie's
I scalled it according to the specifications you gave. 114m tall is 5.7 blocks on my scale, and 720m was 37.
I did think it was a little long too, but those were the specifcations I had to work with.
The problem isn't the length, it's the tail - I think it could do with with altering the relative size of the saucer and engineering hull.
Once again, I'll point out looks can be diecieving, each one of those sticks is 15m in diameter, and theres the fact that that pair of nacelles wouldn't get touched by the cube b/c of it's positioning behind the saucer.
Again, the problem's one of proportions, not absolutes - those struts are about the same as the ones on the Connie. The Excelsior's pretty spindly nacelle struts are over 20m wide. The Galaxy's are over
70m wide. They're simply too small for a ship that size. They'd about do for the nacelles you've given it, but they need to be significantly increased.
so your thinking more like an intrepid? what about the write up? I can't quote you perfectly but it said something like:
"4 Phase cannons sit at the for of the saucer, 2 on the dorsal, 2 on te ventral. The last one sits at the back of the saucer to cover the rear of the ship"
That's weapons placement - it says nothing about the actual design of the ship, which I agree should be related to the Intrepid-Sov-Prommie line.
