User blog comment:WolfgangBSC/Wolfgang's Random Chat Room/@comment-10905876-20150330051342

So I have a problem, I've been wasting my time trying for a giant battlecruiser that isn't what I really want!

The Admiral class battlecruiser I'm gong to eventually put in to IKN service has a bit of an identity crisis. My original intention was to create a ship with better speed than the rather disappointing Tiger class, possibly even using a refitted Esmeralda as the basis. Then I saw that Colorado could do 194 knots, and I decided to build a giant battlecruiser that could do 194 and also be insanely huge. I built a hull that could do 194, but took forever to reach that speed. Then guy tells me about the "skidz" system he used on Colorado and I deleted the first hull to build the second with the new system. New hull is crap, and can only do 157 knots. So I'm coming to a realization, I've completely lost sight of why I'm building this ship in the first place! The goal was never a mega-ship to pound away at the enemy, the goal was dazzlingly high speed on a reasonably sized hull to make up for the poor performance of the preceding class. Now I'm just trying to make a watered down superwarship that try's to go fast.

So back to a normal sized, uberfast battlecruiser for the Admiral class.