EVE General Discussion

Awesome. I really like the Wormhole cap you designed there... it looks awesome. I think there's a lot of room for growth in the utility cap department.

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+1 Your ships are awesome!

Oh I agree I just try not to make something in the left field in function that would require breaking everythign which is why I am hesitant to give salvagers and hackers thier own capitol ship I dont see a usuable 'non' agressive function yet.

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Few thanatose redesign prototypes if you like something or want ot mix match traits.

Starting with trident going clockwise.

Trident, Speahead, Spire, Hatch Back, Moth, Trunk

So pick or mix and let me know and ill got to phase 2.

I guess the spear head design would best match your request then.

hmm something to think about.

The glass cover is acutally its sensor array I still have a bit of a hard time getting to look like etched glass to the point it looks like it was done for fuctional reasons.

Well this one is just for exploration, it does have a level of tactical value if used in a combat role just poking her out of the picture would be easy at that point though.

She can harvest wormhole effects so that a super carrier, titan, or herself can reproduce on grid that effect (to everyone including hostiles) in other places.

Then she can ping everying in the system unless its cloaked so the hostiles will also get a nice view of what is in system.

So both of this civillian ship's possible combat roles are double edge swords capable of backfiring which I intentionally designed it as such, because you know it is a civillian ship, a military ship would try to avoid giving the advantage to the enemy.

The oberon's smaller sister the Titania I havent finished drawing yet but she's a wormhole ship carrier since the scientific products are so small giving her a bay to compete against the orca with would be bit... silly. The titania does give gang bonuses to archeology and exploration ganglinks which I still have yet to draft out one the three traits it could boost.

I have come up with the idea for the Thukker Capitol ship for it to be a mobile factory but I made a major exception in that it only manufactures junker modules, drones, ships, tools, and ammo with less endurance for other kinds of performance. For example all junker ships have 25% less overall HP but have an additional rig slot and generous amounts more calibration. Junker Ammo clogs up the guns more thus reloading them is often but they can bring other things into the guns such missile damage like behavior out of an artillery shell. Junker modules offer nontraditional better performance (ie a bonus not normally found in regular meta-level progression) but break far too easily when they are heated.

Her subcap would be responsible for scrapping trash (ie system pollution introduced in the idea I have which can be a major negative to local economy if it got out of hand) and manufacutring the BPCs of said junker equipment above.

Which is cool for the thukker's to have but its the fact I dont have any hacker/hypernet capitol ships is why I wont release the thukker ones since both Salvagers and my new hackers are fighting over the same resources, wrecks. Either way Ill let it stew a bit longer maybe something will come up that hacker like and not game destroying.

Also, I've got another idea for you; a new breed of capitals called "Weapons platforms".

Slow-moving things, max speed of about 30m/s and the align time of a small moon. The armor would be upwards of several metres thick and, in shield alternatives, the shields would be second only to titans and supercapitals. They would have a ridiculous number of highslots; 16 small turret slots, 10 medium turret slots, 8 large turret slots and four capital turret slots. Stuff like that, y'dig?

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Well I updated the ship a bit, textures will have to be done on the next pass if you like the current shape so far Ill try to match the current tech 3 and new ships theme. Unless you want a different color scheme for some odd reason.

So far I ripped out the old purpolsion systems and added a few more sensor arrays and I have I'D section of the ship which will dictate what sort of detailing goes on there for example the equipment area would look much more bulkier and less armored due to equipment being critical there. Something like remote armor repair systems or capacitor transfers. While the sensors section may just have more windows attenas and odd uprises that look semi functional.

Porportions are wrong but they can be fixed I am not sure to have the forward slope or back slop on the area aside from the strikewing command information center.

Final Design calls for four bridges. Third is right above the battlebridge overlooking the entire landing area its a bit hard to see, fourth one is underside. The CIC and Battlebridge are secondary.

The entire beam leading to the boones will have shock asorbers and look like they should somewhat move around when done.

The entire flight teck will get armored up no more unarmored sections.

Either way if you like where I am going Ill have to throw this through about 4 more passes before you get something that begins to resemble final also its a good time to throw in any changes.

Okay your next update

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Okay done with the markers this is basically a simple light map which is the final stage before detailing portion done with the airbrush. The ship will definetly be alot darker and a bit more constasting to help with the metal conveyance.

From here this entire mess starts to turns into something that looks near the quality of what do these days and to think the Oberon used to look something like this jumble of strokes.

This is how I basically do my 'lineless' work though using light detailing to define everything instead of drawing lines specifically. It allows for a few cheats here and there such as skipping entire detail sections but not many and considering the Thanatos's original design its has a fairly strong composition. I somewhat redirected portions of it elsewhere the froward bridges should be the first thing catching the viewers eyes then leads them to the aft end.

I quickly dashed in a few dark lines for some definition, and spalshed some blue and greens to sorta give me an idea where there will be armor segements, the black plating and where there wouldn't be armor. I normally dont do this until I start detailing though but did it just incase you have any last thoughts about how something should be done.

I also am heavily considering bringing out the equipment 'wings' out a bit further to shove more acutal equipment in it . I also need ot make the ship boons pop out a bit more.

But if you like what you see Ill blow this up in resolution I normally do detailing in (since my tools cannot seem to get any smaller than 0.7th of the software's pixel)

After this the next update you will get will be the Black and White version of the final and depending on my mood I may get this done in a day or a week who knows. Coloring and exact light mapping takes not as long but still a considerable amount of time.