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Thread: The YT-1300 we should have gotten...
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Warlock8806
Tue Nov 01, 2005 6:32 am
#1
Hey folks,
First off, I love my YT so im not complaining. However, I have always thought the ship should have had more interior space. I just found this at wikipedia. This is the ship I wish we would have gotten. Scroll down on the page to see its cutaway view.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YT-1300
bikebum
Tue Nov 01, 2005 7:06 am
#2
CLICKY
Someone has posted that before, but yes I think just about everyone would agree that the YT-1300 interior is a disappointment. There was one post about 2 months ago that someone made with some very impressive decorating done in a YT though.
Sylow
Tue Nov 01, 2005 7:13 am
#3
While those floorplans on the net are very nice, they have one problem: the ship always is bigger on the inside than on the outside.
Due to the fact that in SWG the inside of the POB ships is scaled well to the outside (on the YT it's hard to notice, as it only has the cockpit, the rest has go windiws) the inside space is severely limited. Take a look at the floorplan again and chck the size of the ship. Considering that the ships length is 26 meters, it means that the corridors inside the floorplan are 80 centimeterswide, the cockpit has 2 meters in width.
While you still can walk in a corridor of 80 centimeters width, it definitely feels more like crawling through a supply shaft than walking through a corridor. The bigger challenge is the cockpit, though. To make it clear: The cockpit is not really wider on the floorplan than a present day compact car. And still it would have to have four seperate seats with a comfortable corridor in the middle so it looks like in the movies. Simply not possible to get that into the given space.
The only way to "fix" that would have been to make the ship a good deal bigger.
But making it bigger also makes it an easier target... and it's already now almost impossible to miss it.
The current floorplan of the YT-1300 is a compromise for sure, but it's the best which to be done, unless you want the ship to be purely decorational and even more worthless in any combat assignment.
Message Edited by Sylow on 11-01-2005 03:22 PM
Warlock8806
Tue Nov 01, 2005 8:02 am
#4
Sylow wrote:
While those floorplans on the net are very nice, they have one problem: the ship always is bigger on the inside than on the outside.
Due to the fact that in SWG the inside of the POB ships is scaled well to the outside (on the YT it's hard to notice, as it only has the cockpit, the rest has go windiws) the inside space is severely limited. Take a look at the floorplan again and chck the size of the ship. Considering that the ships length is 26 meters, it means that the corridors inside the floorplan are 80 centimeterswide, the cockpit has 2 meters in width.
While you still can walk in a corridor of 80 centimeters width, it definitely feels more like crawling through a supply shaft than walking through a corridor. The bigger challenge is the cockpit, though. To make it clear: The cockpit is not really wider on the floorplan than a present day compact car. And still it would have to have four seperate seats with a comfortable corridor in the middle so it looks like in the movies. Simply not possible to get that into the given space.
The only way to "fix" that would have been to make the ship a good deal bigger.
But making it bigger also makes it an easier target... and it's already now almost impossible to miss it.
The current floorplan of the YT-1300 is a compromise for sure, but it's the best which to be done, unless you want the ship to be purely decorational and even more worthless in any combat assignment.
Message Edited by Sylow on 11-01-200503:22 PM
I agree butI dont think i would mind the ship being a bigger target though. The fact is, its already the side of barn so going a little bigger really wont change that. If you have a good crew and some nice guns/missles, you can still be nasty ship to reckon with. A fast engine doesn't hurt either. (Had mine going over 1900 with EO 4 with boosters.) I love the new POB components.
(Thanks for the clicky bikebum)
Kyyrtek
Tue Nov 01, 2005 9:59 am
#5
Sylow wrote:
While those floorplans on the net are very nice, they have one problem: the ship always is bigger on the inside than on the outside.Due to the fact that in SWG the inside of the POB ships is scaled well to the outside (on the YT it's hard to notice, as it only has the cockpit, the rest has go windiws) the inside space is severely limited. Take a look at the floorplan again and chck the size of the ship. Considering that the ships length is 26 meters, it means that the corridors inside the floorplan are 80 centimeters wide, the cockpit has 2 meters in width.While you still can walk in a corridor of 80 centimeters width, it definitely feels more like crawling through a supply shaft than walking through a corridor. The bigger challenge is the cockpit, though. To make it clear: The cockpit is not really wider on the floorplan than a present day compact car. And still it would have to have four seperate seats with a comfortable corridor in the middle so it looks like in the movies. Simply not possible to get that into the given space.The only way to "fix" that would have been to make the ship a good deal bigger.But making it bigger also makes it an easier target... and it's already now almost impossible to miss it.The current floorplan of the YT-1300 is a compromise for sure, but it's the best which to be done, unless you want the ship to be purely decorational and even more worthless in any combat assignment.Message Edited by Sylow on 11-01-2005 03:22 PM
Im not 100% sure where it is, but I remember reading on the swg website that the YT was designed ingame based on the scale and look of the Hasbro/Kenner MFalcon toy - which is so out of ratio to the figures that it should have been 4 feet long.
I love my YT, and even with the cramped quarters I make the best of the space I've got.
RasalTheWise
Tue Nov 01, 2005 11:01 am
#6
Agreed. In a way it's kinda neat that it has a clausterphobic feel. Makes it look like how a ship should after 30 years of use. I'm in process of making a cool-looking engine that will take up the majority of the engine room (oddly, it is similar to the hyperdrive unit in the drawing in that wikipedia link).
Message Edited by RasalTheWise on 11-01-2005 10:03 AM
DDGith
Tue Nov 01, 2005 12:17 pm
#7
I can't remember where I read this, but the inside of the Falcon is a physics impossibility (from the movies).
The closest they have gotten to doing anything remotely close is for Empire Strikes Back, when they created a full size Falcon for shooting...but if you notice, there are a heck of a lot less "inside Falcon" shots than there is in Star Wars.
It's pretty funny though. 
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