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Tael
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|  Posted: 2010-04-12 05:29
While the Dev team are going through and reworking the ships layouts we will also be gradually updating the in game model scale to represent true ship size ratio's.
The ships are being resized in respect to the sizes given in the Beta forums Guide to developing models for Darkspace.
There have been cases where models for missiles were larger than fighters, some fighters being larger than scouts.
So far I have gotton upto and started Frigates. Hopefully we'll get them all rescaled to the games 1/5th real world scale.
An example of a Frigate, a small sized scout (bare minimum dimensions) and a fighter to help you measure the depth of the changes and how it will reflect in game.
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Borgie
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| Posted: 2010-04-12 08:58
i love the look of the icc fighters
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Pakhos[+R]
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| Posted: 2010-04-12 10:17
Yeah icc fighter looks better than scout .
Imagine if u could use it as a cruiser 
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Sops
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| Posted: 2010-04-12 11:19
So are stations still going to be the size of a small moon?
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Jar Jar Binks
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| Posted: 2010-04-12 11:43
hmm, this means the ships hitboxes will get smaller aswell? anyone looking into how that will affect general combat?
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BackSlash
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| Posted: 2010-04-12 12:07
Hitboxes are based on mass, not model size.
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ssj4megaman
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| Posted: 2010-04-12 15:28
I always thought something was odd or different or changed with the ship sizes...i dont know if it is just me, but i remember the 1st time i came back to ds after about 4 or 5 years and dreads seemed smaller. Wasn't sure if they were scaled back or i just got used to them.
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Faustus
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| Posted: 2010-04-12 15:49
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On 2010-04-12 12:07, BackSlash wrote:
Hitboxes are based on mass, not model size.
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That's NEWS to me..
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| Posted: 2010-04-12 15:52
This will be intresting to see when finished.
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BackSlash
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| Posted: 2010-04-12 15:58
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On 2010-04-12 15:49, Faustus wrote:
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On 2010-04-12 12:07, BackSlash wrote:
Hitboxes are based on mass, not model size.
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That's NEWS to me..
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In the dev guide 
Should have mentioned that 
Despite my booboo, no, stations and dreads wont be resized. Everything was supposed to be 1/5th scale, some smaller ships weren't (apparently).
[ This Message was edited by: BackSlash on 2010-04-12 16:18 ]
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ssj4megaman
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| Posted: 2010-04-12 16:27
So a luth dread has ALOT more mass than any other faction dread? Because our hitboxes are XBOX HUGE.... should't ugto have the biggest hitboxes with all that armor?
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-Daedalus-
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| Posted: 2010-04-12 16:58
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On 2010-04-12 15:49, Faustus wrote:
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On 2010-04-12 12:07, BackSlash wrote:
Hitboxes are based on mass, not model size.
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That's NEWS to me..
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hahahahaha Jack got burned by Big F.
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Borgie
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| Posted: 2010-04-12 17:51
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On 2010-04-12 11:19, Sops wrote:
So are stations still going to be the size of a small moon?
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thats no moon!
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Jar Jar Binks
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| Posted: 2010-04-12 17:53
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On 2010-04-12 12:07, BackSlash wrote:
Hitboxes are based on mass, not model size.
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thats gonna look pretty stupid tho with the resized ships having the old hitboxes.
just look at the MI station and dread for a prime example of to big hitbox for their sizes.
their hitboxes is almost 3 times the size of the ship, it just looks wrong.
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Borgie
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| Posted: 2010-04-12 18:48
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On 2010-04-12 17:53, Jar Jar Binks wrote:
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On 2010-04-12 12:07, BackSlash wrote:
Hitboxes are based on mass, not model size.
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thats gonna look pretty stupid tho with the resized ships having the old hitboxes.
just look at the MI station and dread for a prime example of to big hitbox for their sizes.
their hitboxes is almost 3 times the size of the ship, it just looks wrong.
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fuast corrected jack on that
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