EVE General Discussion

^ Say it brother!

Another ship that needs attention more desperately than the Thrasher.
I have heard that people train for the Helios so they can at least hide that awful hull

Looks too Caldari.

the smurf's are against this ugly mofo of a graphic downgrade, is the1 making it blind orso ?



wel if i scrol far enough i dont see the ugly mofo anyways

New proposed model is terrible. Looks more Caldari than Minmatar. And seeing as the Thrasher was designed to support the Cyclone and based off it's hull (going from what I can remember of the lore) would the Cyclone be getting a similar terrible redesign?

If you take away the color, it looks Caldari, like the Blackbird and Jackdaw. Basically what you would expect a Caldari frigate to look like.

I thought the planar colorscribble concepting style was alright so far because it gave Caldari ships a unifying look in this redesign pass. But now what, every ship is getting this treatment?

http://i.imgur.com/9huIDZD.png

We see shape before color, wasn't that the reason given for stripping colors out of our icons?

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Let's play a game. Identify the race of each form.

http://i.imgur.com/VkQ9nqt.png

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It's not such a sin to make Caldari and Minmatar look alike, they share blocky forms like Amarr and Gallente share curves. But. While Caldari ships tend to look geometrically handsome, Minmatar ships look pieced together with parts on hand. In the scrapyard. As if no two copies of a Minmatar hull would ever look alike.

If Min/Cal are interchangeable after stripping away color and swapping out fins, the designs are falling short. Maybe you went a bit too hectic on the Blackbird, and a bit too handsome on the Thrasher, and that's why they look similar.

Lastly, why was the silhouette of the Thrasher changed so drastically? It went from being nose-heavy to butt-heavy.

Here's the Thrasher everyone wants.

http://i.imgur.com/iU3n2aG.png

I mean, you know, "everyone" was more a figure of speech. Fig b. has a strong resemblance, but the fins... you're ok with the fins looking blown forward?

http://cdn1.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/66201/1/ship9.png

http://i.imgur.com/iU3n2aG.png

We'll have to agree to disagree. You can't say it doesn't look fairly decent dank flipped upside down though.

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As for "Why Thrasher?" After chatting with Commissar k8 it occurred to me that ships are being redesigned in usage order... no? Condor (Raptor/Crow), Blackbird (Falcon/Rook), skip the Vexor because **** the Ishtar, and now the Thrasher (Sabre). Then Domi. Did I forget a ship?

If that's true, I would also guess the Blackbird saw a redesign (despite the Falcon's OP status) for the Rook's sake (as part of the effort to make Combat Recons happen).

I never liked the old thrasher. Its visual design does not convey the sense of scale (271m long, it's still a big ship), but it looks small.

With the proposed thrasher design, it conveys its size a lot better, and actually looks like a gun ship.

I have to agree with the statement that it looks Caldari. But the current Thrasher does not scream "Minmatar" to me either. The distinct Minmatar ships for me are the two carriers, slasher, burst, Naglfar, Rago Titan, and breacher/hound. The bare-bone look, antennas and spikes(towers?) everywhere, patchy hulls... the current thrasher just looks like a brick. That's not minmatar.

pretty cool id say