Boys will be boys - ship design

Count Sessine · Post by **Count Sessine** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 9:33 pm

Hi all,

You know the pleasure us men get when we buy a new car, just looking at it, kicking tires etc?

Same thing in every single space sim I have ever played. Buy a new ship, take it out for a spin, gawk at the external views, turn it around, check out how the sunlight reflects just so from that surface... That's about half the pleasure of upgrading your ship

In EL we have another, quite ingenious, modular ship building system. The only problem, from a 'kicking tires and gawking' point of view is that the ships look fairly similar.

I think that what I'm trying at here is that in future incarnations of the game I think more dissimilar ship models is rather high on my list, if possible

Blackthorne · Post by **Blackthorne** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 10:45 pm

You ought to see Wasp's twin hull P-38 inspired ship...that one pretty much instantly convinced me that there's more to the construction screen than meets the eye...

-Blackthorne

Count Sessine · Post by **Count Sessine** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 11:45 pm

Sounds good - do you know where I can look at it?

shewter · Post by **shewter** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 11:47 pm

Yup, you can position your components on all 3 axis, and scale em to.Can come up with some pretty neat looking ships.

Blackthorne · Post by **Blackthorne** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 11:52 pm

They're in the Renegades screenshot thread, but I'll just link them here...

-Blackthorne

Count Sessine · Post by **Count Sessine** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 12:28 am

Whoaa, yes, thats pretty cool, good use of the construction interface!

Goatnado386 · Post by **Goatnado386** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 12:53 am

That's pretty slick. I'll have to check it out again. Anyone else got something wild like these?

Zenith · Post by **Zenith** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 3:52 am

That's very, very good. I expect many a painstaking hour went into getting it to look just right, I'm certainly going to have my work cut out for me!

Goatnado386 · Post by **Goatnado386** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 4:02 am

I like asymmetrical ship designs. In fact, of all the games I've played, I think I like Eve Online ship designs the best by far. When I first played Eve, I was unhappy with the ships. Over time, their unique look grew on me so much that I frown at anything symmetrical these days. One of the kewlest things that Legacy lets me do is make whacky ships.

tha_rami · Post by **tha_rami** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 9:20 am

I've seen some pretty wild designs - gunlike forms, the ship above, bulky, long ships - the shipyard system allows you to do a lot.

wolis · Post by **wolis** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 10:31 am

My first little.. long and thin with pincers:

ship

And here I am at night doing a little mining. Took me a while to realise I was mining and that the beam shoots out from below:

[Edited on 9-2-2009 by wolis]

warsign · Post by **warsign** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 10:42 am

Pls check out AKF universe force ships(search it in the clan forum). Awesome cockpits and ships there!!!

Also Terasin's has!!!!!!!!

[Edited on 2-9-2009 by warsign]

Cougar_DK · Post by **Cougar_DK** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 8:03 pm

My current ride:

Pulsar
Engine: 2
Shield: 4
Cargo Bays: 5
Fuel Tank: 800
Wing Sys: 1
Hardpoints: 2

She is mainly used for mining while I learn the game and is equipped with the following:

Mine Tractor Beam
Fulcrum Drive C2
Shield Boost X2
Cannon Relay Sys
Repair Sys C1
Starguard gun
Metal Vapor Laser