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Hosted Projects - Standalone => The Babylon Project => Topic started by: boewolf on January 23, 2005, 06:12:02 am
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After reading the Favourite TBP ship? Thread, I had to make my dream Nova.
This was the result.
(http://users.ncable.com.au/gtbernaldo/pics/B5/SNova.jpg)
Each of the Novas used to make it are going to be about 50% larger than the origional.
Its main use will be heavy suport and suprise attack.
Armorment estimate:
4 EA XRay Laser
2 EA Nemesis LG missile
about 20 EA Heavy Pulse Turret
Its still in the development stage. But i thought I would share now, finish later and make a campain around it later.
If I make a campain around this ship class later it will be a second raider war... With a twist....
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Looks good, but I don't like linked ships (exept that narn ship, I forget it's name), make it more looks like Nova advance than two linked Novas.
You created two same topics, maybe you should delet one?
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How do i delete the second one? The second ome was an accedent. The net was going adnormaly slow. I got a little impatient... Not like to get get like that...
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I can actually see that as EA's Mass Driver Nova Varient before they were outlawed by treaties. That would be cool in a Dilgar Campaign.
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Nice doubleNova :p But it needs somethin'.. It looks too.. Linked :D
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yuck!
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Originally posted by Ashrak
yuck!
Could you please be a little more specific than yuck? Whats so yuck about it?
Originally posted by Primus
Nice doubleNova :p But it needs somethin'.. It looks too.. Linked :D
I know you stated that it looks too linked, but I had the idea for adding more linking looking structure to the top and botton. The bulkyer mid sections I am going to make it as one.
Most of the big multi part turrets are going to go in exchange for much smaler ones, and the remaining large ones are going to be made single barrel.
Will post a new pic when I have one.
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Originally posted by boewolf
After reading the Favourite TBP ship? Thread, I had to make my dream Nova.
This was the result.
*snip picture*
Each of the Novas used to make it are going to be about 50% larger than the origional.
Its main use will be heavy suport and suprise attack.
Armorment estimate:
4 EA XRay Laser
2 EA Nemesis LG missile
about 20 EA Heavy Pulse Turret
Its still in the development stage. But i thought I would share now, finish later and make a campain around it later.
If I make a campain around this ship class later it will be a second raider war... With a twist....
AWESOME!:eek: :eek2:
But I'd find a double-sized single Nova with particle beams and Nemesis missiles to be even better. The Warlock, Omega, and Excalibur don't do it for me.
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Needed a break from the model itself while I make some decitions about it... So I started on some weapons for it.
The one thing I did decide on is that most of the heavy weapons are going to be plasma based, but made to be fired in the good new style voley. This is the result.
(http://users.ncable.com.au/gtbernaldo/pics/B5/PPulse.jpg)
It has an overall faster fire rate and can kill a Warlock in about a 1:30 to 1:40.
The second is the 45mm also voleyed up for an anti fighter cannon.
(http://users.ncable.com.au/gtbernaldo/pics/B5/45mmAAFPulse.jpg)
This one still needs some tweeking.... But it has potential...
My current decition with the modle is to go with a combined double or just single with more guns. Both have some promess with what I see in my mind....
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Do you risk making it more powerful then a shadow vessel when you do that?
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Definitely, that's overkill.
Speaking of Omega-X and Nova. OX's got a bit rebalanced weaponry and we have two new Nova models in progress. The other is a high-poly model which can be used for Omega as welll...
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The volley weapons are beautiful.
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Originally posted by boewolf
A new Nova
:lol:
Eh, you do realize that the word "Nova" itself means "new" in latin right? So this ship is the "New New".
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Personnally...I think it's god-awful fugly.
And your weapons ideas are not giving me confidence in a balanced ship...
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Originally posted by Trivial Psychic
:lol:
Eh, you do realize that the word "Nova" itself means "new" in latin right? So this ship is the "New New".
Acctualy I didn't know...
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I once did a non-canon B5 ship parody that looked just like that. It was called the EAS Armageddon and consisted of 3 Novas stuck together with assorted bits of GOD sat strapped on. Unfortunately I don't have pictures of it anymore :(
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Originally posted by ngtm1r
Personnally...I think it's god-awful fugly.
And your weapons ideas are not giving me confidence in a balanced ship...
The Warlock is at least as powerful. Although you might say that it itself is unbalanced, since it can kill a Shn'Tan in less than one minute.
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Shn'Tan's armament is primarily defensive with good coverage. A Sharlin will triumph over a Warlock in most cases, sometimes a Warlock may get lucky and win though.
Warlock is definitely a powerful vessel, but it has severe weaknesses as well.
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Originally posted by ngtm1r
Personnally...I think it's god-awful fugly.
And your weapons ideas are not giving me confidence in a balanced ship...
Well then I should probably state that it is going to suffer from a little less hull than a Warlock and won't have anywhere near the speed eather. Its only going to go at 35, unlike the Warlock's 50. So there are some of the weaknesses...
Also there probably won't be quite so many wepons as I first estimated. Unleass I finish the dual version (to wich I will and then make a decition...)
Edit...
After changing all of the big multipart turrets, adding about 8 extra small turrets and two missile launchers the streight overgrown nova looks like this.
(http://users.ncable.com.au/gtbernaldo/pics/B5/SNova2.jpg)