News Letter 8

[Borgkube]

I am really impressed by the cockpit layouts. I have played just about all the space games and this is one of the best layouts I have seen. I also wanted to comment on the scale drawing of ships. Being an American I have to say that Big Ben doesn't really help me that much as a point of comparison. Maybe you could add the Statue of Liberty as well? Just a thought.

 

[Simon Brewer]

Hi,

According to Wikipedia, the Statue of Liberty is 93 metres tall from ground to torch, and the Big Ben tower is 96 metres tall, so not much in it really. That's about 305' and 315' in proper measurements.

Big Ben was easier to mock up in a few moments for this render

I'll try and dig out a stock model of the Statue of Liberty if we do another comparison image in the future!

Cheers,

Simon

 

[Selezen]

I'll try and dig out a stock model of the Statue of Liberty if we do another comparison image in the future!

No, no, no. Don't pander to the Yanks, man! Big Ben totally kicks La Femme Liberty's pert, toga clad bottom.

 

[Patrick_68000]

I'll try and dig out a stock model of the Statue of Liberty if we do another comparison image in the future!

As long as we are there, it is also possible to put the Eiffel Tower ? To compare with the Majestic class Interdictors (Cruisers) of the Imperial Navy, of course.

 

[DobrijZmej]

Wait a minute, you need to put the Kremlin!

 

[JohnStabler]

No, no, no. Don't pander to the Yanks, man! Big Ben totally kicks La Femme Liberty's pert, toga clad bottom.

Aren't they thinking about renaming it to Thatcher Tower?

 

[Bingo Brewster]

The Great Tower of Blackpool please

 

[Susimetsa]

As long as we are there, it is also possible to put the Eiffel Tower ? To compare with the Majestic class Interdictors (Cruisers) of the Imperial Navy, of course.

I'd appreciate the Eiffel Tower as well - I've visited it, but I've never seen the Big Ben or the Statue Liberty in real life.

 

[el_tel]

Angkor Wat please

 

[Alien]

Big Ben - 305ft
Statue Of Liberty - 315ft
Eiffel Tower - 1,063ft
Kremlin - 62.34ft (at its highest point)
Blackpool Tower - 518ft
Angkor Wat - 213.26ft (The tower above the central shrine)

 

[Frank]

Of course you're going to have spaceships beside famous landmarks. Being British, the Elite team were going to have one that appeared above Big Ben.

 

[Majere]

It's not Big Ben

Far be it for me to be a pedant but

Big Ben is 2.29m high. It is a bell.

Elizabeth Tower (renamed from Clock Tower in honour of the Queen's Golden Jubilee in 2012 ) is 96m high

 

[jabokai]

Far be it for me to be a pedant but

Big Ben is 2.29m high. It is a bell.

Elizabeth Tower (renamed from Clock Tower in honour of the Queen's Golden Jubilee in 2012 ) is 96m high

You're a pedant? Truly?

 

[Frank]

I'm not a pedant either, but usually when asked about the height of something people mean the height above the ground. Big Ben is in a belfry and that's up much higher than 2.29 metres.

If you were flying and asked the flight attendant how high you were, you wouldn't be expecting the answer that you were maybe 5' 10"

... I'm not a pedant!

 

[Selezen]

Far be it for me to be a pedant but

Big Ben is 2.29m high. It is a bell.

Elizabeth Tower (renamed from Clock Tower in honour of the Queen's Golden Jubilee in 2012 ) is 96m high

Jeez, don't you know that the tower is "colloquially" named for the bell, and has been for many many years? Sheesh, where are you from, Reidquat or something..

hang on...

Anyway, shall we have one major landmark for every country in the world for these size comparisons? Why not tie up the design team for hours at a time making sure that every nation on Earth is fairly represented in these graphical "knock ups" just for the sake of equality? In the case for Scotland I propose that George Galloway's booze cabinet be included for scale purposes (reputedly the only container that can hold his standard breakfast alongside his ego and leave some room to move).

<fzzt>

Apologies, my sarcasm chip has just melted.

 

[Listeri69]

Big ben comes under standard units of measurement in Britain, starting at the width of your thumb, distance from thumb to first finger, distance between two hands, from here to there, size of this room, house, size of a bus, swimming pool, big ben, football pitch, Blackpool tower, distance between two towns, two large cities, size of Wales, length of Britain, from here to Australia.

Measurements greater than from here to Australia usually expressed as a bloody long way

I hope that clears that up

 

[Majere]

You're a pedant? Truly?

Oh crap. It was before my first coffee. Back into my hole.

Diamond Jubilee.

I'm not a royalist at all, was aware it was going on but tried not to pay attention, I did know they renamed the tower though.

 

[Cody]

Sheesh, where are you from, Reidquat or something..

<dons his pedantic somberero> It's Riedquat!

 

[Majere]

Ha ha I love it when I make an ass of myself.
It was meant to be a playful comment, difficult to get across in text I guess.

I genuinely don't really care what people call it.
Don't get me started on the Union Jack though (joking!)

 

[withnail]

Big ben comes under standard units of measurement in Britain, starting at the width of your thumb, distance from thumb to first finger, distance between two hands, from here to there, size of this room, house, size of a bus, swimming pool, big ben, football pitch, Blackpool tower, distance between two towns, two large cities, size of Wales, length of Britain, from here to Australia.

Measurements greater than from here to Australia usually expressed as a bloody long way

I hope that clears that up

I glad you mentioned swimming pools. The BBC cannot do a news programme without mentioning an Olympic sized swimming pool.