Re: [OpenTTD] Military items
Posted: 07 Jun 2021 14:00
I'd assume that most warships are significantly better at transporting cargo than any given fighter jet.
In particular, aircraft carriers have been used for transporting ground airplanes between bases (which the three American fleet carriers in the Pacific were doing when the attack on Pearl Harbor happened, which turned out to be really good luck), and as troop transports during peacetime (most notably during Operation Magic Carpet). Another notable example is the Essex class' use for fishing space capsules out of the ocean during the Gemini and Apollo programs, although modeling that in OpenTTD is probably a bad idea.
Also, military ships could just be used as eye-candy, similar to the various car NewGRFs.
OTOH ships have far, far more detail that is recognizable at "OpenTTD scale" than planes so I can perfectly understand if you don't want to deal with that. Just saying they could have their in-game uses.
In particular, aircraft carriers have been used for transporting ground airplanes between bases (which the three American fleet carriers in the Pacific were doing when the attack on Pearl Harbor happened, which turned out to be really good luck), and as troop transports during peacetime (most notably during Operation Magic Carpet). Another notable example is the Essex class' use for fishing space capsules out of the ocean during the Gemini and Apollo programs, although modeling that in OpenTTD is probably a bad idea.
Also, military ships could just be used as eye-candy, similar to the various car NewGRFs.
OTOH ships have far, far more detail that is recognizable at "OpenTTD scale" than planes so I can perfectly understand if you don't want to deal with that. Just saying they could have their in-game uses.