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nine-gear crow posted:You should check out the Star Trek Armada III mod for Sins of a Solar Empire. It is stupidly well done and a worthy successor to both Armada and Armada II if you've ever played either game. There's a similarly good star wars mod out there too. I wish I remember what it was called off the top of my head.
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twistedmentat posted:There's a similarly good star wars mod out there too. Guessing your thinking of Thrawn's Revenge II, that's the big one. Not a huge fan and in general I think trek-tech makes for more interesting games in general.
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OtherworldlyInvader posted:https://well-of-souls.com/homeworld/concept/hw_concept.htm These rule, the Homeworld series has the best ship aesthetics.
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Mordja posted:For a game made by ex-Homeworld devs, I always thought Sins of a Solar Empire and relatively lame ship design. But they definitely got better at it, culminating in their Titans, gigantic super units with a plethora of abilities. They fit their factions well, for example TEC's were floating brick shithouses, Advent's were overdesigned and ritualistic, Vasari's looked semi-organic. My favourite were the Advent Rebel's Eradica, a real work of art I've always liked the Ragnarov Titan. A ship designed around a massive rail gun. 
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Ego-bot posted:I've always liked the Ragnarov Titan. A ship designed around a massive rail gun. Yeah, it's solid, I just hadn't found a good picture of it. 
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Mordja posted:Guessing your thinking of Thrawn's Revenge II, that's the big one. Not a huge fan and in general I think trek-tech makes for more interesting games in general. Isn't that for Galaxy at War? I was thinking of Interregnum. But I agree that Star Trek fits better with SoaSE's gameplay. THough I wish it wasn't just TNG era ships, I wish it had TOS and movie era ships (and I guess disco ships too). There was a 40k mod at one point but I don't think they ever released a working version. That's too bad, because while i like BFG games, they're a bit to fiddly for me.
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twistedmentat posted:Isn't that for Galaxy at War? I was thinking of Interregnum. I wish Armada III dipped into quasi-canonical ships like the Luna-class and some of the others from the Activision-era games. You get the Typon-class as a carrier, but that's it. That said, I've enjoyed loving around in its developer mode and awful lot.
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twistedmentat posted:Isn't that for Galaxy at War? I was thinking of Interregnum. As for Star Trek, like I mentioned, the Armada III people have a new mod out set just before TOS which might give you some of what you're looking for. Some really impressive visuals too: https://www.moddb.com/mods/ages-of-the-federation
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Mordja posted:For a game made by ex-Homeworld devs, I always thought Sins of a Solar Empire and relatively lame ship design. But they definitely got better at it, culminating in their Titans, gigantic super units with a plethora of abilities. They fit their factions well, for example TEC's were floating brick shithouses, Advent's were overdesigned and ritualistic, Vasari's looked semi-organic. My favourite were the Advent Rebel's Eradica, a real work of art That second one reminds me of some of the ships from the Spelljammer campaign setting for 2nd Edition AD&D. Mindflayers going through space in a loving flyin' nautilus:  Battle Dolphins:  And the eponymous Spelljammer itself, a sort of "Flying Dutchman" of that universe, a mystery ship lost in space, full of secrets and maybe treasure?!  Just a giant fuckin' flying manta ray with a city on it's back that is also sort of alive? And while I don't think there will be actual Spelljamming in Baldur's Gate 3, they are at least giving us a small taste/reference to it with this teaser trailer/cinematic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9yyRvAiXvc
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DrBouvenstein posted:That second one reminds me of some of the ships from the Spelljammer campaign setting for 2nd Edition AD&D. Spelljammer was kickin' rad. Just taking my big giant head for a spin 
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Holy crap that trailer ruled.
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That 5 minutes was more interesting than the last ten hours of TV that I've watched.
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Speaking of Sword of the Stars... And for me, mid 20's me got a real kick out of this trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58HMl-5-l2w
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twistedmentat posted:Spelljammer was kickin' rad. How the gently caress does this not rate for water landing?
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Bootcha posted:Speaking of Sword of the Stars... SOTS2 looked so good and thank god I didn't preorder it
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The best Trek ship is the Klingon D7 That manta shape. Those inward turned nacelles. For star wars, I liked the hammerhead corvette 
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Bootcha posted:Speaking of Sword of the Stars... That reminds me of some of the ships belonging to The First Ones from Babylon 5: (spoilered because I know there's 2 or 3 people in the nearby Babylon 5 Blind Watch thread and I don't want to spoil them.)    Very blurry cause they're screencaps from what is probably not even 480p mid-90's low-budget CGI, so cut them some slack.
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Davethulhu posted:For star wars, I liked the hammerhead corvette My only problem with the hammerhead is that the bridge should really be right at the back. If you're ramming face first into star destroyers, having the bridge be in the part which is rubbing up against them seems unwise.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:My only problem with the hammerhead is that the bridge should really be right at the back. Maybe they put all the depressed, suicidal rebels on there. "Sometimes I think about just..." *mimes diving in a fighter, explosion* "Say, have you ever served on a Corvette?"
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Brawnfire posted:Maybe they put all the depressed, suicidal rebels on there. Well, make sure to save one for an A-Wing.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:My only problem with the hammerhead is that the bridge should really be right at the back. Ramming other vessels was not actually a design goal for the ship.
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I know the Terran Trade Authority books were talked about earlier, but has anyone mentioned this badboy yet; 
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twistedmentat posted:Spelljammer was kickin' rad. McSpanky posted:How the gently caress does this not rate for water landing? It's literally a library
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:I know the Terran Trade Authority books were talked about earlier, but has anyone mentioned this badboy yet; That is a blindfolded cow.
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mind the walrus posted:It's literally a library Yeah you could probably land that in water but you'd better hope no waves reach the deck.
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RangerKarl posted:if the giant flaming head there gets extinguished it'll probably fall apart immediately Or save the library from an entirely predictable fire
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Or save the library from an entirely predictable fire "I never thought MY library would burn down!" says man whose library had large open flames
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Or save the library from an entirely predictable fire IIRC, he feeds the books to the head to power the ship.
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Lest we forget the one time Valve Software almost made a space game.         
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Chomp8645 posted:Ramming other vessels was not actually a design goal for the ship. It should be a design goal for any ship!
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Before they settled on Phasma turning off the planetary shield in Episode VII, the Resistance was just going to ram it with this:
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Nice try, but that's just the moon cannon from the 3D Sonic games.
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aphid_licker posted:It should be a design goal for any ship! It's based on the Republic battleships from the Knights of the Old Republic video game series, which are quite a bit larger and have a lot more guns. I like the MMO's iteration of the star destroyer, the Harrower class.  
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Bottom left I am EXTREMELY about
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Cythereal posted:It's based on the Republic battleships from the Knights of the Old Republic video game series, which are quite a bit larger and have a lot more guns. Yea i really like the 4 hangers, means you can launch a lot of fighters at once. Bootcha posted:Lest we forget the one time Valve Software almost made a space game. These are  It makes me sad I have zero artistic talent because I have a bunch of ship designs in my head but i have zero ability to draw them without them looking like something I drew in the margin of my notebook in math class.
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twistedmentat posted:Yea i really like the 4 hangers, means you can launch a lot of fighters at once. There's probably talented folk here who could render even your worst attempt at a thumbnail sketch into something awesome. I'd be willing to try, myself, though I'm not claiming to be amazing by any means, just that I'd give it a shot.
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Artstation.com seems to always have someone re-imagining star destroyers. 
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