Favorite/Least Favorite Shipset Poll

[Mudshark]

I must admit that the most fun I ever had was combining two different Borg technologies. 0ne was an assimilation trait; the next was Borg technology (researchable). It was so much fun to just plow thru the galaxy combining the two, It is to bad that no one ever made a mod combining the two together. They would have been a very tough race! They are both in the AI/race shipset. Combining the two sets would make for a very tough race indeed. With the Malfordian facilities, they would be a tough fight With the mod authers blessing I would love the best of these to be combined, almost instant regeneration, ability to have a huge resource base! The Borg the way they were meant to be!

[PvK]

In reviewing these, I notice that the Praetorians actually have a separate baseship image in Gold! Neat!

Interesting, Baron, to hear some different appraisals than I might give, in some cases. After inheriting the Ukra Tal in our test Gold PBW game, I actually got to like that ship set pretty well. Some of the ships are pretty flat and omelette-y and homely, and I guess it may not've required a lot of technical skill, I admit, but I do like the battleship, space station, battlestation, destroyer, starbase, and the portrait.

I think I prefer the Ukra Tal to the Xi Chung.

I like a lot of the Cue Cappa, but I don't particularly like the main warships, although that's personal preference rather than thinking they're not well done (they are). I fill similarly about the Krill and Abbidon (well done, but I don't really relate to their warships).

I actually like the Sallega, but think the mini images are too small - the small ships are nearly invisible on the starfield.

After checking out the sets on The USy page, though, I think there are a few that are at least as good as even the best ones that come with the game. At least, to my own tastes.

Some of the nicer ones on that page: Angellicans, Vidrihne, Darlok, Federal Union, Gryphon Sector, House of Aleskander, Nloam, Nostropholo, Pacea One, Rintax, Aquilaean, Tlaxcalan, United Flora, and some others seem more or less top rate to me, and I'd prefer all of those to playing the Cue Cappa or Xi Chung.

Well, enough sharing of tastes... back to work...

PvK

[Phoenix-D]

"but think the mini images are too small - the small ships are nearly invisible on the starfield."

Yup.. Geo actually ignored one of my ships in Dimension X for the longest time. I'm sitting here wondering, "why isn't it dead yet". I found out when I asked if he was blind- my ship died shortly thereafter, since he knew there was something there to look for..

Phoenix-D

[oleg]

My Favorites are Nostropholo and Taeron.
I like Zedron ships too, but race picture is just plain ugly. And out of style as well.

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Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:



Of the third-party shipsets I've seen, I'd have to divide them into two classes. Derivative designs based on a SciFi show or movie, and original designs. The derivatives are hard to judge. How much credit do you give to an artist for skillful video capture? Or for seeing a ship in a movie or show and making a good copy in a modeling program? Some of the Trek and B5 sets are nice, but that's more of a tribute to skill at copying than at design.

[ 29 March 2002: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]

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How would you classify my "Soul Hunters" ? I resent the notion that all I am good at is just plain plagiarism.

[Val]

I think the Soulhunters are in a class of their own. Though it is based on a ship seen in the show, you used that to extrapolate out an entire ship set. Where the Narn/Centauri/Others already had a complete range of ships to use to create a shipset. I actually thought the Soulhunters were well done and have a slightly menacing look to them.

My favorite shipset in the original game is the Amonkrie. The Krill are probably my least favorite - too bland!

My favorite fan set was the Narn and EA sets (from the series catagory), my least favorite are the hodgepodge sets that don't have any cohessive feel to the set (unless that was their goal - a chaotic empire?).

Probably the most creative set I have ever seen was the Lego one

[oleg]

Thanks, Val.

Sorry for not contributing to Bab5 mod. I am totally enchanted by Proportions mod right now. Very neat concept, in line with what I always thought about wars in Babylon 5 universe : Battle of the line, Narn surrender after homeworld bombardment, etc.

[capnq]

My favorite is the Sharlon.

My least favorite is probably the Xiati, because they're nearly impossible to see.

I'm the exact opposite of oleg; I really like the Zedron race portrait, but am at best indifferent to the shipset.