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o7 Huskarl :)

CCP: they are still mad at us... Quick, dangle the Dominix Redesign Carrot.

Edit (seems like they are actually doing it)

yay!! finally the dominix change!! Looks like you made it a little too wide at the top front there on the 3D model in white... compared to the concept art which was a bit thinner and more aesthtecially pleasing.

Also i suppose it's way too late to add more engines on the domi? look at the brutix's myriad of awesome engines! the domi looks like it couldn't actually move much.

Anyway...

I love the new minmatar direction , its a bit daring but looks fresh And that artist is really really talented and designed the best looking ships in eve so far! Altho i feel like the concept art for the thrasher would be more suited for a Battlecruiser size ship (cyclone perhaps). espacially if you compare with the hecate, which beyond looking really uninspired (enough with the WWII references pleeeeeease) also looks like it could be a drone in terms of scale!!!

to sum up: SCALE COHERENCE

Also it is true that the thrasher is an iconic ship. maybe that redesign is a bit too far. I would also like to point out that it would be great if the redesigns were made taking a bit more race coherence into account...
the new Chimera and Jackdaw look like they belong alongside a rokh, corax or a naga ... but the minmatar have a bit too many styles

> the carrier look: nid, hel, typhoon
> the sailboat look: probe, stiletto, velator, scythe
> the wingy vertical look: maelstrom, tornado, naglfar, tempest
> the thrasher look: thrasher , cyclone
> the wtf ugly look: loki and both Tech3 and Tier3 destroyer
> etc...

to sum up: STYLE COHERENCE



>>>> tldr; to sum up the sum ups: good job on all the new designs (except the hecate) but make sure to keep SCALE and STYLE coherent trhoughout races and ships.

Also the most urgent redesigns are the CELESTIS and IMICUS. They are a disgrace to the beauty of Eve and not worthy of receiving our excess pod fluids.

The Stilletto looks great,
the Probe looks a bit much like the Reaper (not that it's a bad thing),
the Dominix obviously looks good (not different to the current, just better --the way it should be).

The Thrasher.... really doesn't need a redesign.
And it definitely SHOULD NOT be given the same design-style as the Caldari redesigns. Those concepts are absolutely unnecessarily complex, and far too 'techy,' say, for Minmatar.

Take more inspiration from the current, MINMATAR style.
Not just any random design with flappy solar panels.


Those are my thoughts, anyway.

I like the way things are going in terms of the ship designs. As long as the Minmatar redesigns look like hatred incarnate I'm good.

o7 Huskarl

Redesigns good, except the Thrasher. Its model is one of the better looking, despite its age, and it fits nicely with all the new models already redesigned.
There are a lot of ships that need the treatment much more urgently (Imicus/Helios, Celestis/T2Variants or Bellicose/T2Variants, if you wanna stick to Minmatar).

The Thrasher is iconic, and is already one of the best looking ships in the game. The 'gills', frontal profile, etc... are very reminiscent of a shark or a piranha or something else aquatic and predatory. You get the idea. I'm not opposed to tweaking the model, but it ought to retain the essential character. The proposed redesign looks like you fired magnet through a scrapyard. Even the junkiest looking Minmatar ships still look engineered.

edit: except the Burst, but 'looks more like the Burst' is not a positive commentary on something's appearance.

No mention of the suggested griffin model from the community?

Be careful with the probe, it looks close to the reaper

Be careful with the thrasher, its a bit too caldari-like.

Dominix: Looking gorgeous, get it rolled out.
Stiletto: Really like it, it still looks like the same ship, just sleeker and meaner.
Probe: Love the extra detail on the little dinghy.

Thrasher: NO NO NO NO NO NO NO. That's a Caldari vessel. Stop with the damn pointy bits and antennas every fricking where. The Thrasher is a mean looking thing with gills, a sloped forehead and a front spike. Those are way, way, way too out of the Minmatar meme. The Stiletto and Probe still look like themselves, just enhanced. Focus on that. ENHANCE the Thrasher. Don't remake it into something it isn't. You can make the Sabre a bit fancier, but don't get ridiculous.

Get your Caldari out of my Minmatar.

Dominix redesign is good. You know what would be really good though?

Adding a skin for the Domi to make it look like the infested drone version. Because that would be so awesome, I would throw money at you the moment it came out.

Adding a vote to "please don't use that new thrasher model". The problem with it is that it's simply too busy. As noted before, it has enough sections to make sense as a model for a larger ship. At the levels of zoom people are often using to look at ships, it won't have a distinct shape the way the current one does, it'll just be a pile of messy polygons. Consider that many frigates and destroyers currently have quite distinct and interesting silhouettes even when zoomed fairly far out. This new thrasher model won't have that… well it kind of will, it'll be the messy pile that doesn't look like anything in particular.

I think staying closer to the existing model would not only make the sentimental people happy, it would make the ship look less like an accident in a cardboard box factory.

Edit: The Caldari designs I like the least are the ones that are just piles of boxy shapes mashed together. Heck the Leviathan (which is an old skin I know) is such a pile of rectangles that if you zoom out a ways, it looks like some sort of anti-aliasing test graphic instead of a titan. Please don't make Minmatar ships nothing more than Caldari Damacy box piles, with rust added.