Opinions on various shipsets

[TerranC]

Originally posted by Arkcon:
What does an opponent's shipset have to provide to you in order to be satisfactory for you?

Do you mean to ask what makes a shipset look good?

[Arkcon]

Originally posted by TerranC:

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Originally posted by Arkcon:
What does an opponent's shipset have to provide to you in order to be satisfactory for you?

Do you mean to ask what makes a shipset look good?

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Yes. No. Not really. Kinda. Wait ... um .. nnnooo. Umm. What was the question? Oh yeah, OK. On a level it seems I'm trying to ask "What looks good to you?" Which is a pointless question, I know.

To distil the question down, what would make a shipset look so bad to you, that you'd hate to play against someone who uses it on PBW, drop out of the game, put a shot gun shell through the monitor, hunt down shipset designer and give him an atomic wedgie, that sort of responce.

Yeah, you could just not use the shipset, and let SE4 substitute. That completely solves the problem. So I am kinda trying to find out what looks "good enough" to "most people". Just to avoid that being necessicary.

[TerranC]

Originally posted by Arkcon:
To distil the question down, what would make a shipset look so bad to you, that you'd hate to play against someone who uses it on PBW, drop out of the game, put a shot gun shell through the monitor, hunt down shipset designer and give him an atomic wedgie, that sort of responce.

Well, that's much easier to answer.

I would have to say that compiled shipsets usually get on my nerves; except a few, most compiled shipsets are poorly done, where people grab pictures of the defiant, enterprises, imperial destroyers, borg cubes, asgard ships, some fan made sci-fi creations from the net and horribly distort them to fit the sizes that se4 uses and proudly proclame it as "the best shipset made, ever" or "I made it all" or "They're all my creations".

Besides that, there's little that ticks me off, although off-scale renders (Ie: half of the ship is cut off in the picture) come close.

Edit: and no, it's not a pointless question, not at all.

[ May 02, 2004, 19:18: Message edited by: TerranC ]

[Slick]

I don't mind looking at a new shipset, but I agree that it should show ship sizes proportionally. Also, colony ships, war ships, carriers and transports should look a little different; enough to distinguish quickly by sight. This one is a little vague, because if it is an alien race, who knows how their ships are designed, but this is a game afterall. I don't mind a little learning curve, but if ships are too similar or if larger sizes in kt are shown as smaller graphics, I hate that. Some shipsets are downright deceiving; their BB's are smaller than their Cruisers!

Just my $0.02

Slick.

[Solymr]

I hate ships that don't really look like the hull size they're meant for, i.e colony ships looking like warships or vice versa. It just looks silly I think.

And as mentioned before, shipsets with ships ripped from tv shots just look down right....tryhard I guess? So what if your Baseship looks like a Borg cube?

[primitive]

For a shipset to play well, there are a couple things to keep in mind.
- Logical size progression.
- Direction; No blobs. It should be easy to see which way the ship is heading on the mini.
- Colors; Make them visible. I hate the Shadows.
- Flags and population bars; Make them match the shipset color.

Easy

[Atrocities]

Originally posted by Slick:
I don't mind looking at a new shipset, but I agree that it should show ship sizes proportionally. Also, colony ships, war ships, carriers and transports should look a little different; enough to distinguish quickly by sight. This one is a little vague, because if it is an alien race, who knows how their ships are designed, but this is a game afterall. I don't mind a little learning curve, but if ships are too similar or if larger sizes in kt are shown as smaller graphics, I hate that. Some shipsets are downright deceiving; their BB's are smaller than their Cruisers!

Just my $0.02

Slick.

If I had $0.02 I would spend it.