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captainoblivous
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I was messing around in the ship tailor with my t5u excel earlier, looking for the nice combos. I knew I wouldn't use the whole resolute skin, but I figured I'd mix and match to see what works.
I have to admit, I'm surprised by the Resolute. I'm not a fan of how it looks as a whole, but most of those parts work really well with excelsior parts, shaking up the old reliable aesthetically. The neck and pylons of the resolute play really well with the excel in particular. I thought I'd hate it, but you know they really do work. It's almost as if that their whole idea revolved around just tweaking the old design, rather than have people use the whole resolute costume..
The ideal mix (in my eyes) consisted of the excel saucer, resolute neck, lakota/ent-b secondary hull and nacelles, resolution pylons. It gives the whole thing a nice touch up, without losing the old excel look. It gives her a few new curves!
Btw, what's with the tron (cough) 'intel ship' lines on the secondary hull of the Resolute? and why was the whole secondary narrowed? It looks a wee bit underweight now, compared to the old hull. That said, the extra depth given to the rear tail section looks a lot better, much beefier than the old fragile looking bit. Would it be possible to take that new tail and put something very similar on to the old secondary hull?
You know, bort was right. From the side, there is no doubt that the resolute is the child of the excelsior. I don't like the whole package, but the artists did a pretty damned good job with the parts. If only we could thank them in some way other than meaningless text!
Those stats on the resolute though...ugh. Give her t6 fleet avenger (arbiter?) stats to go with the excel/resolute skin package and I might just stop dreaming of a t6 tmp connie! :P
What do you people think?
I have to admit, I'm surprised by the Resolute. I'm not a fan of how it looks as a whole, but most of those parts work really well with excelsior parts, shaking up the old reliable aesthetically. The neck and pylons of the resolute play really well with the excel in particular. I thought I'd hate it, but you know they really do work. It's almost as if that their whole idea revolved around just tweaking the old design, rather than have people use the whole resolute costume..
The ideal mix (in my eyes) consisted of the excel saucer, resolute neck, lakota/ent-b secondary hull and nacelles, resolution pylons. It gives the whole thing a nice touch up, without losing the old excel look. It gives her a few new curves!
Btw, what's with the tron (cough) 'intel ship' lines on the secondary hull of the Resolute? and why was the whole secondary narrowed? It looks a wee bit underweight now, compared to the old hull. That said, the extra depth given to the rear tail section looks a lot better, much beefier than the old fragile looking bit. Would it be possible to take that new tail and put something very similar on to the old secondary hull?
You know, bort was right. From the side, there is no doubt that the resolute is the child of the excelsior. I don't like the whole package, but the artists did a pretty damned good job with the parts. If only we could thank them in some way other than meaningless text!
Those stats on the resolute though...ugh. Give her t6 fleet avenger (arbiter?) stats to go with the excel/resolute skin package and I might just stop dreaming of a t6 tmp connie! :P
What do you people think?
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I think it's one of the best T6 'updates' to a classic ship yet - the nacelles are a little oversized for my tastes and I'm not sure about the pylons, but the hull, neck and saucer; you can see the Excelsior design in them and they work so smoothly with parts from the T3 and T5 Adv. Hvy. Cruisers that there's none of the overhang that you get with the T6 Exploration Cruiser (if you combine the T6 neck with a T4 hull, for example) or the T6 Warbird Battlecruiser (if you use the T4 'head' on a T6 hull, there's a pair of 'cheeks' where they don't really line up properly because the T6 head is wider than the T4 and the hull matches that width).
I am a little surprised, on a non-art angle, that they didn't try to combine the T3 Adv. Hvy. Cruiser's "Transwarp Computer Console" and the T6's "Tactical Manuvering Matrix" into some kind of set like they seem to every other time they release a new ship that's an 'update' of a lower Tier vessel...
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Indeed. They have come a long way in that department!
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Someone over in the Epic Screenshots thread has posted a nice one of the Excelsior saucer, Enterprise-B (Excelsior Retrofit, whatever) hull and nacelles, and the pylons and neck from the Resolute...
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That is precisely the mix I used on mine. She is a bit too engineering heavy but not too bad. Not the best but not the worst either.
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