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Looking at the Tholian fighters I had a thought. The 'small fighter' looks like what I think a Tholian carrier should look like! Can you make a ship of the same geometric design as the small fighter but of much more apparent mass? You could make each successively larger carrier by adding more 'segments' to the design, since the breaks between the triangles would be where the 'bays' would be for fighters to launch and land.

Conversely, the carriers look like good fighters. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif The little extra hulls that give the apperance of 'horns' look like engines on a fighter.

Other than that, the designs look pretty good. I do think you've got the light cruiser and cruiser reversed, though. The light cruise has more in common with the smaller ships, including it's color scheme. The light cruiser looks more like the larger ships. I'd switch them around.

[ July 04, 2002, 20:08: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]

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Area Affecting weapons:
Could a storm be created that would kill engines and shields?
Could it be miss labled to indicate it is a "safe" storm? Just a buch of "eye candy"?
Could a racial tech be modded such that only one race would have access to such storms.
I realize this would not work in combat but the race in quesiton could build ships to create these storms, and ships to remove them after the flys have been caught in the web.

Re: tholians
 

Thanks a lot !

I'll try your ideas. I escpecialy like swaping
carrier and small fighter.

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Nicely done set!

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BTW, I have a Vorlon shipset that has you as one of the credited designers, too. It has no drone. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif This must have been an early draft? Where can the latest one be obtained? At the B5 mod homepage? Do I have to download the entire mod to get the Vorlon shipset?

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Yes, it was pre-Gold.

I made a new complilations of available Vorlon ship pictures. Will post them later.

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Ok, but also note that the 'Vorlon' light cruiser is a Whitestar! That's not right. There should be a seperate 'Army of Light' race composed of lots of borrowed images from the other races and the Whitestar class. The Vorlons should not be using that image.

Also, some of the mini images, like the colonizer, seem out of proportion to the portraits. I guess a colonizer is supposed to be huge, but the portrait for the colonizer really does NOT match the mini. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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I changed carriers. Is it better now?

1026893605.zip

Re: tholians
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Uh, no... that's the same. The carriers still look like fighters. The SMALL FIGHTER still looks like a good basis for a carrier design. Big 'segments' of triangular crystal with the open edges being natural locations for fighter bays.

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I would ahve to agree that I like this set, it just doesn't look very "Tholian". But it would be a nice set as a unique race.

The race pic though is very good. It does appear that it could be what the distorted images available from TOS represent.

Geo