sometimes it could be because they are replicas of another games ship, which in that game is called a battlecruiser, on i slightly related note, people sometimes put a picture of the real thing over a replaica, which in turn makes it not possible to see what it is actually like.

Battlecruisers were ships that were the size of a battleship with similar arament but not as armored

they are called heavy cruisers not battle cruisers. all they have to do is load up the usan build in ships to tell the difference minus the uss alaska cause its com is off and broken the dd's cruisers and bb's are the proper size

i still dont care

better yet, Try considering that a ship is not a mod. it's just a ship.

Also Mithril Dragon is correct. and can speak for me in this regard.

How about you play the game you paid for, the way you like to play it.
That's exactly what I and everyone ELSE is already doing. Who cares what it's labeled. If you want to alphanumerisize your models and color code em, go OCD it up! No hate there.
But you're literally telling others - Don't be creative on a creative ship building game.
Nobody needs that negativity, no matter whats going on with you making you feel the need to spread it.

HMMM lwpuma, I get what you are saying but the problem is there are many real world ships that ignore this classification or just blurr the boundaries of which is which, added to this many ships are seperated by time, and times change., this becomes a nightmare when you move into the scifi world with battlecruisers ranging from 500 meters to 500 kilometers, perrsonally I like the SBS classification of big = battleship,, underwater = sub or dead, everything else = frigate

Battlecruiser? heavy cruiser? guided missile cruiser? Not even the people that made this thing or those who design stuff to kill it can decide what to call it, and what the hell is my 2/3 replica ?
Frigate? cruiser? light cruiser,battlecruiser
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