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Ship models and cool changes.

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Galen Silas
Digital assassins
#1 - 2012-06-10 01:57:56 UTC
Something to spark good conversation, who thinks it would be cool if CCP did not only with pain jobs on the T2 ships but also made slight model changes as they did with the bombers. Obviously bombers like the Nemesis look nothing like the previous Fat man design minus the triangular cross symbol and the points on the bottom which resemble fangs of some sort.

Lets talk about possible design changes or even post some artwork variants on what we would perceive a ships design to look like depending on it's role while keeping the base design.

i.e kind of like the T3 cruisers how depending on what role it does the attachments change in appearance. but will be universal for the ship to everyone. i personally think that ships like interceptors would look cool if they maybe had a larger engine housing and more exhaust ports to resemble and give notice to there speed just through the model, and maybe with ships such as fleet supporters like the damnation or vulture have added antenna groups or relays to give them the look that they are constantly transmitting signals on a large scale to multiple ships throughout the fleet and require the added communication and signal support. To end my personal post on this I would like to see the ships appearance change with modules placed on the ship, but post away people who are interested in this topic. Blink
Shatner19
X.S. Industries
#2 - 2012-06-10 02:02:40 UTC
biggest back-logged development group is the Art department.

They are always behind schedule, so new models for existing ships take a while to create alongside geometry and streamlined with V3.
Mira Lynne
State War Academy
Caldari State
#3 - 2012-06-10 03:11:22 UTC
This Gets brought up often: and to be honesy it already exists. There are Minor Differences certain T1 Hulls and their T2 Variations (Im mostly aware of the Merlin/Harpy/Hawk, because thats mostly what I fly) ofcourse not as much of a difference as the bombers, but its still there.

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Oraac Ensor
#4 - 2012-06-10 12:14:45 UTC  |  Edited by: Oraac Ensor
Galen Silas wrote:
i personally think that ships like interceptors would look cool if they maybe had a larger engine housing and more exhaust ports to resemble and give notice to there speed just through the model,

I don't fly interceptors yet but I'm pretty sure all of them already feature extra boosters/thrusters to indicate their enhanced performance.
Temuken Radzu
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2012-06-10 20:53:49 UTC
Oraac Ensor wrote:
Galen Silas wrote:
i personally think that ships like interceptors would look cool if they maybe had a larger engine housing and more exhaust ports to resemble and give notice to there speed just through the model,

I don't fly interceptors yet but I'm pretty sure all of them already feature extra boosters/thrusters to indicate their enhanced performance.


That goes only up to T2 cruisers, T2 Battlecruisers an Battleships look exactly the same as the T1 counterparts apart from the different paintjob...