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New Noob Ships - care to rate them?
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Solhild
Doomheim
#1 - 2012-02-17 23:24:11 UTC  |  Edited by: Solhild
Post updated with new textures. Looks good from an ongoing art direction and quality point of view, maybe not so good from a design preference point of view.

1 Ibis - Excellent (mini Tengu).
2 Impairor - Polished version of current great design.
3 Velator - jury is out, I'm liking the new design elements along the same lines as the Talos, people in the thread not too happy with it.
4 Reaper - general improvement in quality but has lost something on the way. Something symmetrical based on the new design works much better for me.
Symmetrical Reaper for fun

New images courtesy of Roll Sizzle Beef.



Original post:

Vid courtesy of Sarmatiko

Youtube vid

Pics of all 4


I know that without textures there's imagination required but at least the models are clear.

I'll give 'em:

1 Impairor 9/10 - has the cool factor
2 Ibis 8/10 - looking like a mini tengu, nice
3 Velator 7/10 - classic
4 Reaper 0/10 - bonk

I hope this scaffolding mess isn't the sign of things to come, it certainly won't make a good first impression on players. Something like the merc ship from Chronicles of Riddick would be much more fitting.

Ho hum.
Hayaishi
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2012-02-17 23:26:52 UTC
I don't like any of them.

They're far too good and smooth for noob ships.

The Velator doesn't look Gallentean, and the Ibis looks far too advanced.
Skydell
Bad Girl Posse
#3 - 2012-02-17 23:29:56 UTC
Amarr one looks the same. I can see no diff at all.
Solhild
Doomheim
#4 - 2012-02-17 23:32:08 UTC
Velator reminds me of the derelict ship in the first Alien movie - also in new Prometheus film.

Amarr one looks like a cleaned up version of current ship - not a bad thing.
Large Collidable Object
morons.
#5 - 2012-02-17 23:35:24 UTC  |  Edited by: Large Collidable Object
Reaper reminds me of this...

The unfinished textures aside, I can't see any improvement - looks like change for changes sake...
You know... [morons.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gjOx65yD5A)
Reilly Duvolle
Hydra Squadron
#6 - 2012-02-17 23:55:25 UTC  |  Edited by: Reilly Duvolle
As someone commented earlier on, you never get a second chance to make a good first impression. As such, the noobships are more important than most people realize. An older player creating an alt will get out of the ship asap, but a brand new player will actually spend more time in it than most people think.

The Impairor is essentially unchanged. Some bits in the back are changed but its apperance is essentially the same. Which is OK, as the Imparor is the coolest looking noobship currently. 9/10.

The Ibis is cool. It has a mini-tengu/mini hookbill feel to it, looks modern. 10/10.

The Velator... meh. They have kept the old basic shape while upgrading some of it. I say throw it out and start from scratch, creating a brand new model. 3/10.

And finally, the Reaper. No, that will not do at all. They have just "solidified" the existing absolutely crappy model. Throw it out, try again. 0/10.
Valentyn3
Deep Core Mining Inc.
#7 - 2012-02-17 23:58:26 UTC
The new ibis looks like the flipper baby of the Tengu and Hookbill and that is pretty great but update the ships that matter first.

I don't always use hax. But when I do, it's because I'm an NPC.. http://i.imgur.com/PUZou.jpg
Reilly Duvolle
Hydra Squadron
#8 - 2012-02-18 00:01:15 UTC
Valentyn3 wrote:
The new ibis looks like the flipper baby of the Tengu and Hookbill and that is pretty great but update the ships that matter first.


Noobships dont matter? To whom?
Alara IonStorm
#9 - 2012-02-18 00:05:32 UTC
Ibis = 10 (Baby Tengu)\

Impairor = 8 (Looks sort of the same as the old one but the old one looks good)

Velator = 6 (Not bad, sleek but not great)

Reaper = 5 (Average)

I like them all though by comparison to the old ones. I am both happy and impressed.
Ajita al Tchar
Doomheim
#10 - 2012-02-18 00:08:54 UTC
Impairor: 9/10, gj on not ******* up the already decent-looking ship
Ibis: 3/10, looks like a mini Tengu, NOT nice. What, is it a Sleeper frigate? A T3 noobship? Not at all like the Caldari T1 line up, even disregarding the uglies like the Moa.
Velator: 2/10, just lol and not very Gallente-like, a bigger fail than the Ibis
Reaper: 3/10, doesn't look very Minmatar, way too rounded and pretty fug

Noob ship artists, plz to be looking at the game a little and working noobships into each race's T1 line up, excluding all the fug ships from consideration. The color is not the only thing that matters. Also, no one gives a crap about noobships, fix real ships first before wasting time on ships that don't matter all that much. New players don't spend all that long in noobships, I promise.
Valentyn3
Deep Core Mining Inc.
#11 - 2012-02-18 00:10:32 UTC
Reilly Duvolle wrote:
Valentyn3 wrote:
The new ibis looks like the flipper baby of the Tengu and Hookbill and that is pretty great but update the ships that matter first.


Noobships dont matter? To whom?


Pretty much everyone who isn't a new player? And even then, they get their first frigate free of charge after doing a couple basic tutorial missions.

If they are going to put resources into remodeling and retexturing ships, it would be better spent on ships that see the most use. They did a fantastic job on the Scorpion, Raven and Maller.

I don't always use hax. But when I do, it's because I'm an NPC.. http://i.imgur.com/PUZou.jpg
Reilly Duvolle
Hydra Squadron
#12 - 2012-02-18 00:12:16 UTC
Ajita al Tchar wrote:
New players don't spend all that long in noobships, I promise.


I distinctly remember keeping my Ibis around for months actually.
Hikaru Kuroda
Extheria
#13 - 2012-02-18 00:17:51 UTC
Nice remodelling, but too bad that in a few days the rookies will have to go to the ugly line of the T1 frigates. They will be disappointed.
Liang Nuren
No Salvation
Divine Damnation
#14 - 2012-02-18 00:23:37 UTC
The Impairer and Ibis look really fantastic. The Reaper looks ok but the Velator looks terrible. I would love to see some iteration on those two. I'd love to see textures even more though.

-Liang

I'm an idiot, don't mind me.
Reilly Duvolle
Hydra Squadron
#15 - 2012-02-18 00:34:28 UTC
Valentyn3 wrote:

Pretty much everyone who isn't a new player?


And for whom do you think they do these models? For the vet that creates an alt?

Valentyn3 wrote:

And even then, they get their first frigate free of charge after doing a couple basic tutorial missions.


So did I. But I still kept my Ibis around for quite some time after I started the game.
Damsel in Distress
The Scope
#16 - 2012-02-18 00:44:02 UTC
Hikaru Kuroda wrote:
Nice remodelling, but too bad that in a few days the rookies will have to go to the ugly line of the T1 frigates. They will be disappointed.


I got my first Atron within the first few hours of playing from my tutorial agent. Never touched my Velator again.

The old velator looked ok, I don't really see the point in this.
Valentyn3
Deep Core Mining Inc.
#17 - 2012-02-18 00:45:01 UTC
Reilly Duvolle wrote:
Valentyn3 wrote:

Pretty much everyone who isn't a new player?


And for whom do you think they do these models? For the vet that creates an alt?

Valentyn3 wrote:

And even then, they get their first frigate free of charge after doing a couple basic tutorial missions.


So did I. But I still kept my Ibis around for quite some time after I started the game.


Same, but it was sitting in the station collecting dust while I was tearing it up in a Condor ect.

I don't always use hax. But when I do, it's because I'm an NPC.. http://i.imgur.com/PUZou.jpg
Lyris Nairn
Perkone
Caldari State
#18 - 2012-02-18 00:58:31 UTC
Large Collidable Object wrote:
Reaper reminds me of this...

The unfinished textures aside, I can't see any improvement - looks like change for changes sake...

This character, Lyris Nairn, was originally going to be a Minmatar. I took one look at the newbie ship that I was given, and deleted the character to try out a different race. I settled happily on the Ibis. First impressions matter a lot.

Sky Captain of Your Heart

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Katrina Oniseki
Oniseki-Raata Internal Watch
Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
#19 - 2012-02-18 04:39:36 UTC
Lyris Nairn wrote:
Large Collidable Object wrote:
Reaper reminds me of this...

The unfinished textures aside, I can't see any improvement - looks like change for changes sake...

This character, Lyris Nairn, was originally going to be a Minmatar. I took one look at the newbie ship that I was given, and deleted the character to try out a different race. I settled happily on the Ibis. First impressions matter a lot.


Now you get a baby Tengu.

Katrina Oniseki
Alara IonStorm
#20 - 2012-02-18 05:06:29 UTC
Katrina Oniseki wrote:

Now you get a baby Tengu.

Correction!

We all get baby Tengu's...

By us I mean Caldari.
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