Opinions on various shipsets

[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.

[Atrocities]

I like ship sets that are interesting and athstetically (sp) pleasing to look at.

I try to make interesting ships but I know that most are just ok and are really no where near the quality that they could be.

If you were to make a ship set, I would say to you do what you want and make the set the way you want it to be. Don't worry about anything else other than if you like it.

I like the Starwolf set the most, but it is one of the least downloaded sets I have.

[QuarianRex]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
I like the Starwolf set the most, but it is one of the least downloaded sets I have.

That's probably more due to the fact that it is one of your older sets. Not to say that it's out of date, merely that everyone has already downloaded it.

As far as shipsets that make me cringe, I have to point out those sets that don't look like they belong in space. Among that painful tribe I would list such sets as Nintendo (all the ships are turtle shells, game controlers, and kirby's *shudder*), the Fractal Domain (just a bunch of fractal patterns with virtually nothing to distinguish them), the Akah [look like a series of biger smoldering charcoal brickettes(sp?)] and the Space Vikings (sorry Rollo, every time I see a cartoon longboat scoot through the depths of space it makes me cringe).

When it comes to what makes a shipset attractive, I tend to like a staged progression. A similar look for Escort-Destroyer, one for Light-BsttleCruiser, one for BatleShip and Dreadnought, and Baseship by its lonesome. An example would be the way I reordered the Sol Collective to make the Technocratic Enclave.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

If it looks neat, I like it.