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minmatar V3...Do NOT make them pretty and streamlined.

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E man Industries
SeaChell Productions
#1 - 2012-05-24 15:14:22 UTC  |  Edited by: E man Industries
minmatar ships have a slapped together rough a rumble feel. Cosmetics be damned! If it works…good.

The V3 of some mini ships look way way to clean. The hulls are all very streamlined and nothing looks tacked on. The only slightly minmatar feel to these ships is color and the wingy bits. This is space! Why would theminmatar care about how streamlined their ships are?

I want to see the hap hazard minmatar ships look like they are built over time. With plates welded on, pieces not fitting together perfectly… Cables running over the hull because why would we make em flush? It’s space! The tech 2 ships should look like add hock upgrades added to the ship…

Please please keep the duct tape fleet looking like it. If my typhoon becomes stream lined I will be very very upset.

I might even make wildly untrue claims of rage quitting…
So please keep in rust we trust….keep us on the raggedy edge.
Kiteo Hatto
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2012-05-24 15:15:59 UTC
As an Amarr pilot im going to laugh if they end up looking like the new hound.
Leah Solo
Lag No Use
#3 - 2012-05-24 15:19:21 UTC
E man Industries wrote:
Mimnitar ships have a slapped together rough a rumble feel. Cosmetics be damned! If it works…good.

The V3 of some mini ships look way way to clean. The hulls are all very streamlined and nothing looks tacked on. The only slightly mimnitar feel to these ships is color and the wingy bits. This is space! Why would the mimnitar care about how streamlined there ships are?

I want to see the hap hazard mimnitar ships look like they are built over time. With plates welded on, pieces not fitting together perfectly… Cables running over the hull because why would we make em flush? It’s space! The tech 2 ships should look like add hock upgrades added to the ship…

Please please keep the duct tape fleet looking like it. If my typhoon becomes stream lined I will be very very upset.

I might even make wildly untrue claims of rage quitting…
So please keep in rust we trust….keep us on the raggedy edge.


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Tobiaz
Spacerats
#4 - 2012-05-24 15:32:58 UTC
Minmatar ships really start to resemble Caldari, only brown-colored and with an occasional sail.

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MadMuppet
Critical Mass Inc
#5 - 2012-05-24 15:36:12 UTC
Between the Hound and the Rookie ship rebuilds it is kind of depressing to see the direction the ships are going. They look more like something the World of Warcraft goblins would build.

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Morganta
The Greater Goon
#6 - 2012-05-24 15:36:29 UTC
E man Industries wrote:
Mimnitar ships have a slapped together rough a rumble feel. Cosmetics be damned! If it works…good.

The V3 of some mini ships look way way to clean. The hulls are all very streamlined and nothing looks tacked on. The only slightly mimnitar feel to these ships is color and the wingy bits. This is space! Why would the mimnitar care about how streamlined there ships are?

I want to see the hap hazard mimnitar ships look like they are built over time. With plates welded on, pieces not fitting together perfectly… Cables running over the hull because why would we make em flush? It’s space! The tech 2 ships should look like add hock upgrades added to the ship…

Please please keep the duct tape fleet looking like it. If my typhoon becomes stream lined I will be very very upset.

I might even make wildly untrue claims of rage quitting…
So please keep in rust we trust….keep us on the raggedy edge.


why would people rather have a porsche than a volkswagon?
they're essentially the same car.

one would thank that competing npc manufacturers would capitalize on people's desire to drive/fly cool vehicles as part of their overall marketing strategy.

Just because the models previously looked like they were constructed with baling wire and speed tape, does not mean they actually are.

Conversely actual RL spacecraft of the past sometimes were notoriously flimsy (Astronauts on the Apollo flights had to be careful not to knock holes through the hull of the lunar lander with their feet)

at the same time a 425mm AC round (the little stool in your CQ is a 425mm round) would insta pop the LEM, meanwhile a cane can take a bunch of full vollys before popping, no not as flimsy as it looks, but substantially more flimsy than a drake.

Whats my point?
damned if I can remember now Roll
E man Industries
SeaChell Productions
#7 - 2012-05-24 15:42:00 UTC
Well slapped together does not mean flimsey.

think the Apollo lander after a warhammer ork gets a hold of it.
Armor plates stuck to it and and engine strapped to the side for good measure. Some guns and a wingy bit.

A thucker fleet builds most of there ships from slavage and it should look like it!
Aruken Marr
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2012-05-24 15:52:01 UTC
There's something kind of wrong in dictating the aesthetics of something to it's creators when you can't even spell the name of it right...
Jafit
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#9 - 2012-05-24 15:52:43 UTC
Minmatar need to be re-imagined as a steampunk race. Victorian style steam engines, smoke chimneys, all kinds of gears and **** on the outsides of their hulls that don't do anything, plus T2 and T3 ships can have trimmings in brass or copper.
Kurama Bingyi
Doomheim
#10 - 2012-05-24 15:54:08 UTC
Trust in rust.

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Aldeskwatso
Primus Societas
Crimson Interstellar Alliance
#11 - 2012-05-24 15:57:56 UTC
I think the look and feel of the minmatar design should stick with the futuristic rat-look. Doing it differently simply doesn't make it minmatar at all. If done differently tho it should have a modified storyline to it that explains the out-of-place look. But going for a smooth calculated look on a minmatar boat seems to out of place and very hard between all the seemingly improvised creations they mainly use.

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Abel Merkabah
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#12 - 2012-05-24 16:01:18 UTC
I support this thread!

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AkaiDruiD II
The Ghost of Creuss
#13 - 2012-05-24 16:21:37 UTC
+1 Trust in Rust

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Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#14 - 2012-05-24 16:27:07 UTC
Minmatar ships should look like the Reavers from Serenity fly them.

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Andemnon Kohort
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#15 - 2012-05-24 16:43:48 UTC
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:
Minmatar ships should look like the Reavers from Serenity fly them.


Totally agree, besides since when are Minmatar candidates for the sodding catwalk..

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Morganta
The Greater Goon
#16 - 2012-05-24 16:45:50 UTC
Andemnon Kohort wrote:


Totally agree, besides since when are Minmatar candidates for the sodding catwalk..



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MotherMoon
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#17 - 2012-05-24 16:46:02 UTC
Look at new hound,do that a bunch

http://dl.eve-files.com/media/1206/scimi.jpg
Aeril Malkyre
Knights of the Ouroboros
#18 - 2012-05-24 17:07:19 UTC
+1

Keep my buckets rusted.

In fact, **** up the Maelstrom some. It's far too symmetrical.
E man Industries
SeaChell Productions
#19 - 2012-05-24 19:17:04 UTC
well lets hope we get to see some art......
CCP Phantom
C C P
C C P Alliance
#20 - 2012-05-24 19:18:56 UTC
I will forward this thread to our art team.

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