R4V3-0N wrote:theDoomBox wrote:you say that the kestrel will be a fearsome new and powerful warship you will encounter, however its design is highly outdated in comparison to ship the player will be using especially considering the player ship resembles that of the federation cruiser
50 years is quite a long time... In current age in the past 100 years...
50 years is the time between this....
To this....
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... m_1968.jpg (image to big, gave link instead)
The difference is the plane in the 2nd pic moves over 10 times faster then the first, Has guns that can shoot faster then the ones on the triplane even though the triplane uses a machine gun instead of a cannon.
Drop fuel tanks...
Missiles and bombs bigger then the pilot or possibly a formation of bombers in the triplanes time period. etc...
With studies show that humanity is getting better and better in making more higher tech stuff. So in the time period of vanila and 50 years earlier... this is quite a large leap in tech... You also forget time isn't constant everywhere. It can be possible that it could be actually 100 earth years, 1000 earth years, or vice versa, 25 earth years. 15 earth years, etc.
I think the time is pretty good. I think the kestrel is more like a Sherman tank, it wasn't the best, but it was quite good for it's purpose and can be mass produced (Signs of mass production is the fact the rebels got a few kestrels in Vanilla due to the type B lay out, as well as pirates getting their hands on it on the type C lay out)
I said 50 years tops, were looking at a 25 year average here. Considering that look at the technology from say 1980, the US at least, is still using the same MBT for the past 34 years. Our main strategic bomber is still the B-52, its been in service nearly 60 years.
Over a course of 25 years in say, 200 to 300 years in the future, how much do you think its really going to advance? I mean, the tech from this mod is noticeably different from that in vanilla. But I wouldn't quite say that's the difference of biplanes to space craft.
And time is the same in all places, just the units we use may be different. It clear I wasnt interpreting this in a unit of years we haven't even discovered yet.