SE:V Screenshots at the SE Depot

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Collaborative shipsets? Basically, each ship type is claimed, then made, with a basic design laid out by the original author.

[Wade]

This is from malfador.com\SEV\interviews\Orion Sector

"4) Can you describe some about how the new ship design system works? How significantly does where you place a component affect the performance of the ship?

[Aaron] - The new ship design system is something we got a lot of requests for from SE4. You can now place your components onto a layout of your ship. There are three sections to a ship, the armor, outer hull, and inner hull. Damage first goes through the armor section, then the outer hull, then the inner hull. So components places in the Inner Hull are the most protected of your components and will usually damage last. Also, damage is directional and your components will be damaged on the side the ship is hit by weapons fire. So you need to design your ship with regards to how you like to fight with your ships. If you like frontal assaults, then put more protection in the front of your ship."

[Randallw]

Concerning the topic of rescaling ships, here's a little article. It's Star Trek specific but I believe it is relevant to general ship design.

http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/articles/scaling.htm

[Sandstig]

Noticed the ships in this screenshot all had individual names. Is there a feature to do this automatically (assign a txt file to a specific class) or was the renaming done manually for each ship? Or are the TFS Equinox, TFS Starfox, TFS Pathfinder, TFS Orion, TFS Oberon, TFS Fazer, TFS Celestica, TFS Nomad and TFS Nova all of different classes?

[Captain Kwok]

The naming system is the same as SE:IV. I re-named the ships in this case.

[Wade]

"baby arm" at the Strategy First forum has lead us to six new screen shots tonight, 7-27-06. They are the last six in the list. They're quite beautiful, even with the compression.

http://www.tacticularcancer.com/gall...%20Empires%20V

I wasn't aware that "Baseship" was included in Space Empires V! This is wonderful! Does this mean that some or all of the "Neo-Standard" classes are included?

-Wade

[Renegade 13]

Well actually..."Baseship" is a class of ship (1500kT) in stock SEIV, and isn't a neostandard ship.

And what's this? Notice in the "SEV1.jpg" screenshot, the bottom component. "Bomblet Missile"...I don't seem to recall such a weapon being in SEIV

[Wade]

Renegade 13 said:
Well actually..."Baseship" is a class of ship (1500kT) in stock SEIV, and isn't a neostandard ship. :

http://www.dogscoff.co.uk/neostand.htm

I'm playing stock. I have not encountered Baseships. I looked in my C:\Program Files\Strategy First\Space Empires IV Deluxe\Pictures and they are not there.

Thus, you are mistaken.

-Wade

[Kamog]

Renegade 13 is right. In the stock game, baseships use the same pictures as starbases.

[dogscoff]

Yes, the baseship hull does appear in stock, but it shares an image with one of the spacestation sizes. That's why it's included in the neostandard, so that it can have its own unique image.