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Modernising Mining Barge Model
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Jay Pava
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#1 - 2011-11-08 13:26:52 UTC
I love the look of the Primae and Noctis ship designs. The detailing and texturing is superb and they look like actual space vessels. In comparison, the mining barges look very dated and the texturing on them is quite ugly. Even the new strip miner models look better produced. The designs for the mining barge models need an update drastically.

Primae:
http://files1.guildlaunch.net/guild/library/gallery/216170/primae_portrait_017175.png

Covetor:
http://files1.guildlaunch.net/guild/library/gallery/216170/covetor_portrait_011333.png
Naj Panora
The Seekers of Ore
#2 - 2011-11-08 15:23:06 UTC
CCP I think needs to clean up the model but as for a complete revamp I think it looks fine the way it is. I would like to see a t2 indy command ship first. Preferably with indy core capabilities. An Orca just can't keep up with a fleet of Hulks.

Also the more rigid look of the barges now I think would reflect eh down to earth mind set of most miners we don't need anything fancy. It'll just get dirty anyway.
Lairne Tekitsu
DadTZ
#3 - 2011-11-08 19:39:04 UTC
Some newer mining barges would be nice, but I do rather like the current models. Maybe if they were a big larger, with less of an emphasis on being long.


Spotlights that light up nearby asteroids would be really, really cool.

I'm serious, CCP, add spotlights now.
Vicker Lahn'se
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2011-11-09 09:44:16 UTC
Lairne Tekitsu wrote:
Some newer mining barges would be nice, but I do rather like the current models. Maybe if they were a big larger, with less of an emphasis on being long.


Spotlights that light up nearby asteroids would be really, really cool.

I'm serious, CCP, add spotlights now.


The mining barges already have grinding gears, pumping pistons, and they shoot flames. Show me a combat ship that shoots flames.
Mister Michel
#5 - 2011-11-09 10:58:26 UTC
Mine always have flames - when in hull Oops
Raven Ether
Doomheim
#6 - 2011-11-09 12:18:27 UTC
Exhumers and Mining Barges need some work imo. A drastic redesign would be ideal. They look silly and impractical. I'd like to see something along the lines of the Primae, with brighter colors such as yellow strips on top.
Skippermonkey
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#7 - 2011-11-09 15:26:21 UTC
your links have the word GUILD in them...

get out

COME AT ME BRO

I'LL JUST BE DOCKED IN THIS STATION
Jay Pava
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#8 - 2011-11-09 16:17:43 UTC
Skippermonkey wrote:
your links have the word GUILD in them...

get out


if you don't have anything to say related to the topic...

do please **** off.

too many windbags in this forum with nothing to say
Bath Sheeba
Another Success Story
#9 - 2011-11-09 16:54:41 UTC
Jay Pava wrote:
... actual space vessels. ...


You mean they look like this?

Or like this?

Or maybe even like this?

I am confused by your perception of what an "actual space vessel" looks like, because nothing in eve looks remotely like an ACTUAL space vessel.
Velicitia
XS Tech
#10 - 2011-11-09 17:30:31 UTC
the models themselves are fine -- very utilitarian, nothing fancy (shooting fire and the moving bits are a bonus though).

the textures need a little help though (and likely will get that help with the V3 textures). Let's wait and see, kay?

One of the bitter points of a good bittervet is the realisation that all those SP don't really do much, and that the newbie is having much more fun with what little he has. - Tippia