You’re just replying to a discussion thread with “Please, make it stop”. You seem to be very distressed about it, so why torture yourself? Nobody is forcing you to open a particular discussion thread, let alone reply to one.
No, I’m afraid it won’t stop. As long as there are people willing to discuss it, this and other threads you may not enjoy will continue. I assume you also know where the block button is.
Have a nice day.
The issue isn't so much that I '
don't enjoy it'. You may think I'm arrogant enough to assume that I'm the arbiter of interesting content on the forum but I can assure you that's not the case. It's more that it's the epitome of pointless, as in it was already thrashed to the point of becoming a meme and beyond by the time I started playing in 2015.
The fact is this is a game and although elements like the stellar forge do obviously have a significant hard science background (which is not the same as being
actual hard science for the same reason I'm about to mention) as soon as you get into discussions of what ships can and can't do (for example) the science takes a back seat to game considerations because as I said, this has never pretended to be a hard science simulator
over and above being a game.
Ultimately the reason a ship can carry what it can carry is because that's what its gameplay role limits it to, as decided by the devs. The reason that a particular ship with a particular mass may not logically fit with an extrapolation of those values into a real world scenario is that the game, as designed by the devs, is not trying to faithfully reproduce that real world scenario and the reason that we can't extrapolate anything of value to inform what isn't even a 'discussion' with any merit to begin with from an analysis of ships in the Suez canal on Earth in 2021 is that we're talking about flying imaginary space ships in the 34th century.
What it is is a bunch of people bellowing their headcanon at each other. Now if that's what you and everybody else in this thread wants to do, fine. Really, it is. But it's equally fine that I have the right to point out just how daft it is.
Stuff 'being silly' in a game (i.e. not being an exact replica of how things are in the real world) is hardly a new development. One thing I find particularly amusing is the degree to which people are able to suspend their disbelief sufficiently to imagine that they're a spaceship pilot in the afore-mentioned 34th century, that's perfectly fine, but not to worry about why their spaceship doesn't have a precisely calculated cargo capacity. Whilst they get automatically teleported 25,000LY to the last base they docked at if they happen to get blown up in deep space. Mkay.
