Biggest shipset *ever*. Meta-compatible. Released!

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

After only several days of lurking, designing and rendering, I have finally managed to complete all pics. I only need to compile them into a folder and supply some AI files, and then I'm ready to release the biggest shipset ever. Bigger even than the Sev.

Fully Neostandard and Neo++ compliant, full Adamant and STM compatibility, it even has its own Battlemoon.

Now, compiling all these images and their minis is going to take some time, so here is a, well, let's say, "appetizer". A 1024x768 rendition of a Bartelian Coalition Starliner in orbit over a Rock/Oxy planet. (OK, just a standard DoGA background, but what the heck. It doesn't even look like Earth, or at least from this angle.)

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

And another pic; a fleet of a Juggernought, two Baseships and five Battleships in orbit around a Rock/Oxy planet.

Yes. That is to scale. Not the scale in which I created it, but relative scale.

This is not the Fleet pic. That one had the Juggernought and Baseships as they are here, but it had 3 disproportional Battleships and a swarm of Corvettes instead of 5 proportional Battleships. The Corvettes were grouped in small wings of 3 ships, usually performing barrel-rolls or flying at an angle, but due to some thing I can't comprehend, every time I save it the Corvettes revert to the position in which they were copied into the file - in a diagonal line, at the same height and level. X-|

[El_Phil]

Reminds me of the BOB shipset, which is never a bad thing. I think it's the big gun metal grey covered in guns look combined with the yellow stripe.

However it is clearly a different set and is most shiny. Nice work fella.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Third and last pic before release: A pair of Heavy Interceptors being launched simultaneously from a Carrier, while two Heavy Cruisers escort the aforementioned Carrier.

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I will need an appropriate AI, as well as a BigExplosion, Shields and Main pics. Currently, all have been taken from the Jraenar, with some modifications to the Main and, of course, a partially modified AI_General.

If anyone's interested in doing any of these things, contact me via PM or e-mail.

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The reason it looks like the Bob is because this shipset and the Bob (and the Sol Coalition and Sev and Shadri and Spaceshark and So On) were all created using the basic parts provided by DoGA L3.

[dogscoff]

Excellent stuff- I'm loving the fleet pics. What are you using for race portraits?

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

I had scanned something a while back which I thought would become the race portrait, but it was a glittery sticker and the pic was riddled with strange darkish shapes as a result. I've taken a pic from "I, Robot" with a small group of robots.

Oh, I forgot to tell you:

You won't know how the Bartelians (that's their name, the Bartelian Coalition) look. They communicate using the aforementioned robots (called Communicants), and the leader name will be a Communicant's designation, to simulate the fact that other empires relay messages through the Communicant.

Oh, I know how they're supposed to look, but I'm not going to tell anyone.....

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I am more than pleased to announce the release of the Bartelian Coalition!

Currently, it features an AI, Main, BigExplosion and Shields taken from the Jraenar. I need someone to code an appropriate AI and to create unique pics. If you're interested, PM or e-mail me.

Also, if anyone knows of any more ship images I haven't created yet, tell me and I'll update it.

[Ed Kolis]

A bit dark, but...
SHINEY!

[El_Phil]

I am liking the carrier concept. It looks like it could actually launch fighters. Sparkly!

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

If by "glow map" you mean "increased emittion" (as DoGA calls it), it won't show at all.

The Bartelians employ an intricate inertia-nullification field generator, which erects an energy field around the ship and "pulls the inertia away from the fighter bays and puts it right in front of the engines" to put it simply.

I could have just said that they used very powerful engines so the effect would be negligible, but I just wanted to say this.

[douglas]

Strategia_In_Ultima said:
The Bartelians employ an intricate inertia-nullification field generator, which erects an energy field around the ship and "pulls the inertia away from the fighter bays and puts it right in front of the engines" to put it simply.

So you can explain it away with technobabble. You still have to find a place to put that technobabble so that most people who use the shipset are going to notice it. And that still doesn't change the fact that it just looks wrong.

Strategia_In_Ultima said:
I could have just said that they used very powerful engines so the effect would be negligible, but I just wanted to say this.

Actually, more powerful engines would just make the ship spin faster. It doesn't matter how powerful they are if the net thrust is off center.