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Rivr Luzade
Coreli Corporation
Pandemic Legion
#1 - 2014-11-16 14:04:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Rivr Luzade
Eagle

This ship received some very questionable additions to the hull, namely humps on top of the wing canisters, a hump on the neck as well as a lance on the head, a flight deck on the neck and cranes on the engines. What are these supposed to be?
They take away details on the neck and add features to the ship that make it look like a construction crane fused with Quasimodo. That does not add anything meaningful to the ship and really overstrains the "Aesthetics follows Utility" mantra some like to use.
Moreover, the ship keeps its drone bay, a feature that is on both the Onyx and the Eagle absolutely unnecessary as they don't have drone bays. Instead of adding the aforementioned humps and random crane arms to the ship, I suggest to remove the dronebay and add antennae and other elements there to indicate long range targeting and tracking capabilities of the Eagle and warp disruption field generator enhancing modules for the Onyx.

Incursus + Variations

Their iconic antenna/probe should not be removed completely and instead be replaced with a similarly massive antenna in addition to the smaller antennae/probes.
With the straight bottom part and the removed sensor compartment at the bottom-front, it also loses a fair bit of the organic structure feel that is typical for Gallente ships in favor of a more uniform and less iconic design. Not really something that makes the ships stand out from each other.

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Noriko Mai
#2 - 2014-11-16 15:00:27 UTC
Rivr Luzade
Coreli Corporation
Pandemic Legion
#3 - 2014-11-16 15:03:15 UTC
PBR != new models

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chaosjj
Doomheim
#4 - 2014-11-16 16:04:56 UTC
The aditional equipment on the eagle can be easely be identified as special turret inhancing technology, and the new incursus hull fits perfectly with the direction that gallente ships are going. ( in my opinion, a very good direction )
Rivr Luzade
Coreli Corporation
Pandemic Legion
#5 - 2014-11-16 16:26:54 UTC
These can be placed in other places, in particular under the wings where they replace the completely obsolete drone bay, and in a less... clunky fashion. I really wonder what these humps are going to be once the "design process is done and ready for comments"...

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Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#6 - 2014-11-16 17:11:38 UTC
love the new ships but the ishkurs lance isn't lancey enough(otherwise its fantastic, lovley rendering of one of my favorite ships) and im not the only one that thinks so.

barr that though great job, love the new ships and animations

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Lugh Crow-Slave
#7 - 2014-11-17 17:23:59 UTC
only one i wasn't fond of was the falcon the colors just made the new hull hard yo look at

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