Opinions on various shipsets

[Arkcon]

Hey all, I just wanted to get some general opinions from people on the various shipsets you can download from PBW and elsewhere. I suppose the more compete question should be:

What does an opponent's shipset have to provide to you in order to be satisfactory for you?

OK, now here's the background to that question. I'm always downloading a new shipset when I PBW. I like to keep things interesting with new shipsets that people haven't seen before. I'm also a little compulsive about not having the same shipset as someone else in the game.

Malfador's website gives some guidelines on shipset creation: same color scheme, and similarity in shape, and points out that the top down model must be clear so everyone can recognize it.

So I download this shipset, and write an emp for it, upload the emp, and then I say, "Better check out this shipset". Well, the race portrait was fine, but the escort portrait was a little dark, then ... Well, the ship set turned out to be ghastly, it was made up of random ships of other shipsets, at first glance, you'd never know what you were looking at.

So I find this other shipset, called the Dragons, nice renderings of dragons of different sizes. They look pretty nice, breathing fire at other ships (good work there Andres). But, they're all pretty much the same, just different sizes. You can't really tell a destroyer from a light cruiser from a battle cruiser. Or is that really important.

I occasionally ponder working on a shipset of my own. I was gonna use POV-Ray to make metallic bumpy ships using the blob function. But I wonder if with my limited skills I can make them all unique enough.

Question is, is any of this important to anyone else?

[ May 02, 2004, 18:51: Message edited by: Arkcon ]