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Lukari concept 4 - those arcs
artaniscreed
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The sheer volume of area a 90 arc could cover with the front of that ship is amazing.
Then there is the side, however small, that could mean some interesting things for broadsiding if the arcs overlap like the design would suggest.
Thoughts?
Then there is the side, however small, that could mean some interesting things for broadsiding if the arcs overlap like the design would suggest.
Thoughts?
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Design #5 looks too much like it was designed by the Son'a. I like the aesthetics of the Son'a ships but, I would prefer the actual things. I would love to see the Son'a race and ships added to the KDF.
Number 2 looked too much like the T'Varo to me, when looking at its front section. And number six would only lead to more threads of people who are seeing certain things in the shape of their ships.
* Maybe Borg Spheres will be possible too guys. Vote 3
You're losing a lot of space, unnecessarily. Take the Scimitar for example: how much of that ship is actually space that can be practically put to good use? It's just a small box with giant wings, basically. Perhaps if they'd been horizontal wings it might have made a bit of sense. Now it's just a 'cool' design. Maybe nice to look at for some, but not very logical or practical.
Same for other illogical designs like the D'Deridex. A thin layer of metal around a huge gap, that's what 3/4 of the D'Deridex' size represents.
So I guess that, if it comes down to #3 or #5, I'll go for 3 eventually.
Tactical, Science, Engineering, Intel, Command and Pilot variants?
What, no Temporal Variant?
I still think the front and rear arcs for BAs would overlap to the point its almost like having all Omnis
It would make a difference if the ships were REAL, and had to deal with very close-in targets that were properly scaled in size.
I'll say it, I ain't scared. It is because they are stupid.
That makes no sense. It changes nothing.
Third time: It does not make a functional difference in-game. If you broadside, you have front and rear arrays firing on the same target, it doesn't matter how close they are to each other on the hull, for the game. There is no way, in the game, for it to make any difference in your effectiveness. The size scaling in the game is not realistic, there will be no circumstance where anything will get inside those firing arcs on a large ship.
It doesn't matter how effective it would be if the ships were REAL, all that matters is how the ships and equipment function in the game, where the ships are not real and are not subject to realistic size scaling and the resulting geometries of that reality.
As for the other designs, they all look like your every-week-starships we already have plenty of. Beta looks like a Rommie-BoP, Epsilon looks like the product of a Stargate-deathglider and a Son'a-warship, and I suppose we'll get some Son'a-vessels someday in the future anyways (one of the many candidates for lockboxes), while that last design looks like a baby-Voth-Citadel.
+1
dont make son'a look like ships make son'a ships.
i like that triangle shape.
I was hoping the Lukari ship would be a bit more like the Enterprise NX-01: bulky, raw, not unlike speculative NASA designs. They mentioned a rotating crew section in the last blog; that would've been awesome to see. It also definitely shouldn't be T6, but I know there's not much chance of that changing. :P
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I have to agree... Design 5 is too much like a Son'a ship.
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