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Title: Best looking ships
Post by: Cyker on July 28, 2004, 01:40:30 pm: Yay! More pointless thread posting :D

Best looking:
Light fighter: Perseus
Heavy fighter: Ares
Bomber: Oooh.... erm.. Medusa or Seraphim. Or maybe the Sekhmet...
Capital Ship: Deimos
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: TopAce on July 28, 2004, 01:46:02 pm: Terrans: Medusa, Fenris/Leviathan, Orion, Deimos
Vasudans: Hatshepsut
Shivans: Lucifer, Astaroth, Sathanas.
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: mrfun on July 28, 2004, 02:14:56 pm: I've always been a big fan of the Thoth.
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: Gloriano on July 28, 2004, 02:29:19 pm: Light fighter: Censored! .....
Heavy fighter: Censored! ...
Bomber: Censored! .....
Capital Censored! ....

:D Does that sound good?
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: TopAce on July 28, 2004, 02:31:06 pm: [advice]I don't know if the Censored is good here. I think the 'Classified' would be better.[/advice]
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: Ford Prefect on July 28, 2004, 02:32:12 pm: Fighter: Hercules
Bomber: Zeus
Capital ship: The Orion and the Fenris/Leviathan
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: Killfrenzy on July 28, 2004, 03:52:20 pm: Uhm.........

Fighter: Valkyrie (Dunno why. I just like the design)
Bomber: Taurvi (It just looks fast! :D)
Capship: Ooh.......comes down to a fight between the Moloch (I've always liked the design) and the Sathanas (for the pure 'crap the pants' first impression).
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: Ace on July 28, 2004, 09:12:45 pm: Best looking ships? Hrmm...
Terran Fighter: Apollo
Terran Bomber: Medusa
Terran Capitalship: Fenris

Vasudan Fighter: Anubis
Vasudan Bomber: Bakha
Vasudan Capitalship: Aten

Shivan Fighter: Mara
Shivan Bomber: Shaitan
Shivan Capitalship: Cain

As you can see I don't like the capships with the tiled textures. ;)
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: jdjtcagle on July 28, 2004, 09:19:25 pm: With the new textures, it's hard to tell :D
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: Cabbie on July 28, 2004, 09:22:48 pm: Interceptor/light fighter : Perseus ( Horus and Valk comes in second)
Heavy Fighter: Ares
Cap Ship: Deimos
Bomber: Zeus and Medusa
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: Kamikaze on July 28, 2004, 10:25:39 pm: Fighter: Pegasus
Bomber: Sekhmet
Cap Ship: Ravana
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: Singh on July 28, 2004, 11:38:49 pm: Fighter: Persues
Bomber: The Ursa (cause I like bricks, 'nough said :P)
Capship: tie between the Ravana, diemos and the Mentu. If the Lucifer or Hecate had better textures, they'd be the obvious winners in this case :p
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: Bri_Dog on July 29, 2004, 01:17:56 am: Terrans: Aeolous (sp?)
Zogs: Sobek
Shivans: Ravana
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: Kosh on July 29, 2004, 01:29:36 am: Fighter: Mara
Bomber: Bakha
Cruiser: Aeolus
Corvette: Sobek
Destroyer: Demon
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: TopAce on July 29, 2004, 05:58:32 am: Quote
Originally posted by Bri_Dog
Terrans: Aeolous (sp?)
...

Aeolus. :)
I just discovered that my list may be invalid by now, I realized that I got used to the looking of FreeSpace ships. There are a few ones I do not like at all(The Aeolus is among those :o ).
The Sobek also has some hands, so it is handsome. :D
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: Janos on July 29, 2004, 06:54:04 am: Terrans: Apollo, Athena, Aeolus

Vasudans: Hatshepsut, Horus, Sobek

Shivans: Mara, Nephilim, Demon, Ravana
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: pyro-manic on July 29, 2004, 01:57:17 pm: Hmmmm. Aesthetically, it has to be the Sobek. Bee-yootiful. In terms of things that look hard-as-nails, it's the Orion - slab-sided, ****ing huge. In terms of scary/evil-looking, I'd say the Moloch, the Ravana, and then the Sathanas. The high-poly, high-res Lucifer is also very cool (with all the little spiky bits and extra guns).

Small ships: The Valkyrie, Apollo, Athena and Perseus are all cool, and the Horus is gorgeous.
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: Taristin on July 29, 2004, 02:42:47 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Holy Imperial Gloriano
Light fighter: Censored! .....
Heavy fighter: Censored! ...
Bomber: Censored! .....
Capital Censored! ....

:D Does that sound good?

Would those first three be ones that I mapped? :p

Anywho. There are too many good looking ships floating around... The Perseus, the Athena, the Seth, Horus, Thoth, Serapis, Anubis, Sobek, and how can I forget the most beautiful ship of all?

[glow=orange]GVG Anuket[/glow][/size]
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: Gloriano on July 29, 2004, 02:52:31 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Raa

Would those first three be ones that I mapped? :p

[glow=orange]GVG Anuket[/glow]

Yes they are:D, I love those textures

Actually I like Anukets desing..
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: Havock on July 29, 2004, 05:32:44 pm: Ares, Ursa, Valkyrie, Orion, Sathy and Lucy.
lucy for what it's like in the cutscenes, it's so much more badass in there.
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: ShadowFox on July 29, 2004, 07:58:45 pm: Orion, Deimos, Sobek, Nahema.
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: Aspa on July 29, 2004, 08:16:32 pm: I bet some opinions are gonna change once the shadows are properly coded in :)

Canon: Horus and Mentu

Noncanon: that weird spindly vasudan thingy in Inferno, what's it called? :confused:
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: Ford Prefect on July 29, 2004, 08:18:36 pm: I think all Vasudan ships are ugly as all hell. Terran ships rule.
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: MicroPsycho on July 29, 2004, 08:39:08 pm: The Freespace series has been grace with too many beautiful designs for me to make a decision.

Deimos, Artemis, Perseus, Ravana
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: varus on July 30, 2004, 07:53:55 am: I like the Erinyes and Myrmidon, Artemis D.H., Leviathans and Hatshupsets the best.

Sathanas does get a lot of points for looking scary, but I think the Psamtik jumping in right in front of you (like it does in the very first mission) would be just as, if not more, frightening (if it was a hostile ship).
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: Airborne on July 30, 2004, 11:42:22 am: Well if this thread is based on looks and not performance...
-then here's a small list of the best looking capital ships (IMO):
- Deimos
-Aeolus
-Mentu
-Rakshasa
-Sobek
-Hecate (needs better textures like many have said)
-Orion (I like the lights scattered across it)
-Ravana
-Demon
-Moloch
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: TopAce on July 30, 2004, 01:04:01 pm: Are you calling that list small?
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: Solatar on July 30, 2004, 03:05:52 pm: Orion, Fenris, Anubis, Apollo (I like the fs1 ships...)
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: Ford Prefect on July 30, 2004, 03:09:31 pm: Quote
-Hecate (needs better textures like many have said)

Yeah I've always wondered what's with that brown hull plating. Although with the new SCP effects she's a real beauty.
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: ShadowFox on July 30, 2004, 07:29:28 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Ford Prefect
I think all Vasudan ships are ugly as all hell. Terran ships rule.

Racist! :)
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: Taristin on July 30, 2004, 08:21:43 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Ford Prefect

Yeah I've always wondered what's with that brown hull plating. Although with the new SCP effects she's a real beaut.

It's a T-V design. Te brown is supposed to hint at the Vasudan aspect.
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: Ford Prefect on July 31, 2004, 12:04:07 am: :eek: EW EW EW! THAT BEAUTIFUL DESTROYER IS CONTAMINATED WITH VASUDAN WEIRDNESS! RESKIN! RESKIN!
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: Cabbie on July 31, 2004, 01:52:26 am: Quote
Originally posted by Ford Prefect
:eek: EW EW EW! THAT BEAUTIFUL DESTROYER IS CONTAMINATED WITH VASUDAN WEIRDNESS! RESKIN! RESKIN!

A classic quote from Queer Eye for TeH Straight Geek. :lol:
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: Kie99 on July 31, 2004, 04:36:26 am: Terran Fighter=Ares
Terran Bomber=Boanerges (hope i've spelt that right)
Terran Cap-Ship=Orion

The Vasudans all look crap apart from the Hatshesput

Shivan Fighter=Dragon
Shivan Bomber=Nahema
Shivan Cap-Ship=Lucifer
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: Kie99 on July 31, 2004, 04:40:02 am: Quote
Originally posted by ShadowFox
I think all Vasudan ships are ugly as all hell. Terran ships rule.

Racist! :)

Don't you mean Spacist[/b][/u]
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: WMCoolmon on July 31, 2004, 04:45:36 am: Speciest?
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: Knight Templar on August 01, 2004, 03:03:34 am: Athena is teh win.

As is the Sobek.
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: magatsu1 on August 01, 2004, 07:55:27 am: Quote
Originally posted by Airborne
Well if this thread is based on looks and not performance...
-then here's a small list of the best looking capital ships (IMO):
-Aeolus

And what is that doing in there ?
did it slip the doorman a fiver ?:wtf: :D
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: TopAce on August 01, 2004, 07:58:55 am: Quote
Originally posted by Knight Templar
Athena is teh win.
...

I have no problem with the Athena, it only looks like as if it were a light personal transport.
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: Airborne on August 01, 2004, 09:44:04 pm: Quote
Originally posted by magatsu1

And what is that doing in there ?
did it slip the doorman a fiver ?:wtf: :D

I take it you don't like the way the Aeolus looks?
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: capsfan9803 on August 01, 2004, 09:57:10 pm: Fighter: Pegasus. Really, just look at it.
Bomber: Athena
Cruiser: Aeolus.
Corvette: Sobek. mmm
Destroyer: Hatsepshut

If you couldnt tell, i'm a sucker for that grey vasudan capship texture.
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: karajorma on August 02, 2004, 07:06:03 am: Quote
Originally posted by TopAce
I have no problem with the Athena, it only looks like as if it were a light personal transport.

The athena? I could buy that about the Artemis (That ship could easily be made bigger and turned into a troop transport) but I can't see it in the Athena.
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: TopAce on August 02, 2004, 10:27:53 am: Quote
Originally posted by karajorma

The athena? I could buy that about the Artemis (That ship could easily be made bigger and turned into a troop transport) but I can't see it in the Athena.

I mean personal transport as a 'private ship'. Like the YT-x series in Star Wars, just without a tremendous size and cargo capacity.
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: DaBrain on August 02, 2004, 10:55:53 am: The Athena always reminds me of X1.
I love the design, but I don't understand what the ship is good for.
Light bomber.... but can't carry bombs... :wtf:
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: Taristin on August 02, 2004, 11:39:31 am: Heavy Assault fighter. Ignore the Bomber designation.
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: karajorma on August 02, 2004, 11:54:09 am: Quote
Originally posted by DaBrain
The Athena always reminds me of X1.
I love the design, but I don't understand what the ship is good for.
Light bomber.... but can't carry bombs... :wtf:

In FS1 before the advent of the shield the role of the bomber was to denude a capship of turrets so that another capship could kill it.

One thing I like about Freespace is the way that introduction of shields completely changes the tactics that the GTVA uses.

It's a somewhat subtle thing that some people miss but the introduction of the shield is what makes the heavier bombers like the medusa practical. Without shields the slow moving medusa would be cut to ribbons by interceptors or capship guns before it got anywhere near delivering its payload.
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: TopAce on August 02, 2004, 12:18:43 pm: The Medusa's turrets would be more effective against shieldless fighters. It is true that the Medusa can be wiped out quickly, I only said(wrote) this to tell an advantage that works for the Medusa if shields are not in the dictionary of the GTA.
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: karajorma on August 02, 2004, 12:49:31 pm: The turret would do f**k all against capship guns though. I'd take a shielded medusa against shielded fighters over an unshield one against unshielded fighters any day of the week.
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: Stealth on August 02, 2004, 12:50:32 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Holy Imperial Gloriano
Light fighter: Censored! .....
Heavy fighter: Censored! ...
Bomber: Censored! .....
Capital Censored! ....

:D Does that sound good?

that sounds gay. because why the hell would you censor them
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: karajorma on August 02, 2004, 01:06:59 pm: I think he's pimping MT again.
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: TopAce on August 02, 2004, 01:35:54 pm: No, he only wanted to be funny. I see nothing in that post that leads anybody to the MT forums/website.
As for the Medusa: OK, we humans differ. Such is life.
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: karajorma on August 02, 2004, 01:43:07 pm: I guess you haven't been following HIG's posts elsewhere. I'll wait till he posts but considering his actions here and on SG I'd bet it was a pimp :D
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: TopAce on August 02, 2004, 01:44:33 pm: :)

Riiiiiiiight. If you are saying ....
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: Gloriano on August 02, 2004, 01:53:31 pm: Quote
Originally posted by karajorma
I guess you haven't been following HIG's posts elsewhere. I'll wait till he posts but considering his actions here and on SG I'd bet it was a pimp :D

Bah, it was not Pimp I just really like our Models that's all:p :D ;)
You see your self when we are done....... why those are Cool
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: karajorma on August 02, 2004, 01:54:51 pm: I didn't say it was ONLY a pimp :p
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: Taristin on August 02, 2004, 02:23:45 pm: In all fairness, though. They are really cool looking models. And I do think I did a decent job texturing them. We just have to wait for the last few things to be completed for MT and you'll all see what we mean...
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: Solatar on August 02, 2004, 02:28:11 pm: @Terran Turret > Shieldless Medusa

'nuff said.

Well, maybe not enough....if a huge bomber takes hits, it can recharge it's shields and still survive to deliver a payload. You can't recharge a hull in-between bombing runs.
Title: Re: Best looking ships
Post by: Woolie Wool on August 02, 2004, 03:30:53 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Cyker
Yay! More pointless thread posting :D

Best looking:
Light fighter: Perseus
Heavy fighter: Ares
Bomber: Oooh.... erm.. Medusa or Seraphim. Or maybe the Sekhmet...
Capital Ship: Deimos

Light fighter: Dragon
Medium fighter: Apollo
Heavy fighter: Basilisk
Bomber: Ursa
Capital Ship: Demon
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: Ghostavo on August 03, 2004, 08:31:37 am: How can you people like the Medusa design? Even the designers gave that ship the name "Medusa"! The creature that was so ugly that could turn people to stone!!

Meh...

Light: Valkarie (sp?)
Medium: Apollo
Heavy: Herc Mk.II (maybe not truly heavy...)

Bomber: Athena (extremelly light bomber I know... :p )
Corvette: Deimos
Capital Ship: Orion
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: TopAce on August 03, 2004, 09:04:11 am: Quote
Originally posted by Ghostavo
..
Light: Valkarie (sp?)
..

Valkyrie. :)
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: Swamp_Thing on August 03, 2004, 11:54:43 am: Quote
Originally posted by Ghostavo
How can you people like the Medusa design? Even the designers gave that ship the name "Medusa"! The creature that was so ugly that could turn people to stone!!

Why? What´s so wrong with it? I like it bigtime. It´s my favourite bomber, and i even use it to other non-bomber missions.
Its a beautifull ship.

My all time favourite is the Mara. I love that bug-like look. It is also extremelly agile, with a kick ass armour, and lots of space to put my party poppers! Gotta love those shivans...
;7

Olha... Um tuga! Isso vai, ou racha?
:D
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: TopAce on August 03, 2004, 11:57:17 am: The naming of Medusa does not come from the animal. Like Artemis, Medusa was a goddess.
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: karajorma on August 03, 2004, 12:02:39 pm: Quote
Originally posted by TopAce
The naming of Medusa does not come from the animal. Like Artemis, Medusa was a goddess.

If you're going to be pedantic at least get your facts straight. Medusa was not a godess. In fact she was the only one of the Gorgons who was mortal.

Gorgons (http://www.pantheon.org/articles/g/gorgons.html)
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: Ghostavo on August 03, 2004, 12:12:07 pm: Creature... mythological creature... happy? :p You thought I was taking about a real medusa turning people to stone? :wtf:

Swamp_Thing, I just don't like the way the ship has it's missile banks put... I like ships to have a certain... "flow" that doesn't put almost all of their mass in the front.

And you are correct... the Mara is sexay ;7

Meh... vai-se andando... mais dia menos dia... :D
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: karajorma on August 03, 2004, 12:35:32 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Ghostavo
Creature... mythological creature... happy? :p You thought I was taking about a real medusa turning people to stone? :wtf:

Only TopAce actually corrected you. The gorgon link also refers to them as creatures :D
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: Ghostavo on August 03, 2004, 12:44:48 pm: I was talking to TopAce... read the last part of your quote... sorry if I mislead you...
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: TopAce on August 03, 2004, 01:17:27 pm: You weren't talking. You were posting. :)
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: Taristin on August 03, 2004, 02:01:53 pm: ...:lol:

Remember, TA, that's how you got your title like that on NW. :p

(And no, it wasn't me... but I did get a good laugh)
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: TopAce on August 03, 2004, 02:11:59 pm: I do remember it. I just grabbed the opportunity to use this here. As well.
Title: Best looking ships
Post by: Airborne on August 04, 2004, 12:18:32 pm: I haven't heard one person say they like the Taurvi bombers....
Shivan bombers just plain own.
Seraphim = OK
Nephilim = coolness
Nahema = coolness
Taurvi = coolness (when I first saw these, I thought they were fighters)