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Offline Nico

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I made a full scale jupiter :)


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Here's one after I fixed the SSD. When I first converted it I accidently made it 115km long, AND IT WORKED! However once you attacked it that crashed the game ;P


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Offline aldo_14

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Originally posted by karajorma
Geezer has a great saying. "If I can't blow it up, I'm not interested".

Basically any ship the player can't kill himself in a mission should have a lot of story wrapped around it to justify its existance.


Dammit, that was going to be my point!

Um, yes.  Exactly.  I'd say anything > 4km  needs a good reason to exist beyond being big & scary.  (and anything in the 2-4km range had better have a decent point too, because that's verging on the edge of what the player can really take on).

 

Offline pyro-manic

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Originally posted by karajorma
Geezer has a great saying. "If I can't blow it up, I'm not interested".

Basically any ship the player can't kill himself in a mission should have a lot of story wrapped around it to justify its existance.


That's perfect. :nod:
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Offline Janos

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People should definately make superjugs because they're useful and fun and we have waaay too many good cruiser/transport/freighter/corvette models anyways, whereas superjugs are extremely rare and never seen. The superjugs should also be either grey, badly-textured Terran superships or cheap Sathanas rip-offs, the bigger the better. Don't bother actually texturing them, just slap some brown... stuff over them and claim it's the future emissive armour duraplate or something. You should also come up with completely arbitary designations for the ships - for example SSJGDn - and the names should be something that have been used before, because it gives us that warm feeling of familiarity. "Tor" and "Odin" are good, solid Terran names that are not overused.

It's not that easy, though. For your superjugs to be feasible and immersive, you need to implement ridiculously overpowered weaponry into them. One focused beam is usually enough, but it should have firepower to destroy at least Uranus-sized planets with no difficulty whatsoever. If you set up the hitpoints into some insane amount, you can make sure that nobody destroys your superjug - people want to see it, not blow it apart. Your artistic talent must be seen.
And not even that is enough! If you make a superjug - a Shivan one would be ingenious - you should make it's Terran counterpart at least 2 kilometers bigger [although that's a bit too little in my opinion], and the Terran ship must have a cool name as well. AND HUGE ÜBERBEAM.
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Offline Nuke

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Originally posted by Janos
People should definately make superjugs because they're useful and fun and we have waaay too many good cruiser/transport/freighter/corvette models anyways, whereas superjugs are extremely rare and never seen. The superjugs should also be either grey, badly-textured Terran superships or cheap Sathanas rip-offs, the bigger the better. Don't bother actually texturing them, just slap some brown... stuff over them and claim it's the future emissive armour duraplate or something. You should also come up with completely arbitary designations for the ships - for example SSJGDn - and the names should be something that have been used before, because it gives us that warm feeling of familiarity. "Tor" and "Odin" are good, solid Terran names that are not overused.

It's not that easy, though. For your superjugs to be feasible and immersive, you need to implement ridiculously overpowered weaponry into them. One focused beam is usually enough, but it should have firepower to destroy at least Uranus-sized planets with no difficulty whatsoever. If you set up the hitpoints into some insane amount, you can make sure that nobody destroys your superjug - people want to see it, not blow it apart. Your artistic talent must be seen.
And not even that is enough! If you make a superjug - a Shivan one would be ingenious - you should make it's Terran counterpart at least 2 kilometers bigger [although that's a bit too little in my opinion], and the Terran ship must have a cool name as well. AND HUGE ÜBERBEAM.



will this do :D
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Offline NGTM-1R

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The forward arms on the Dante, indeed the forward as a whole, always struck me as too Terran-looking...
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Offline Nuke

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i was going for the fs1 lookfor the forward section, the original plan was to put in several armor plates to make sort of a hulking cavernous gilled hanger in the front, but it looked stupid so i took it out. i still consider it my coolest ship, at least till i finish the hi poly ragnarok class :D
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Offline Taristin

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Originally posted by Nuke


 
will this do :D


Someone completely missed the point of Janos' post. :rolleyes: :p
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Offline Nuke

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oh i got the point
some people just dont know a smartass when they see one. :D
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Offline aldo_14

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Well, remove the 'smart' bit and people are very good at spotting it.......



:p

 

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Offline FireCrack

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Why the hell is the Rahu's designation SSG? shouldnt it be SG?
actualy, mabye not.
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SSSSSSSSJ Omfgitsgonnagetusallanditsuberanditsscaryanditsmean


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Offline Black Wolf

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Originally posted by FireCrack
Why the hell is the Rahu's designation SSG? shouldnt it be SG?


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Offline Solatar

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On an almost completely random note, I like the Dante because the front looks almost Indian. That kinda goes with the Shivan's being Indian..ish and all.

Of course, Indians are human/Terran...so I guess it kinda does look Terran. :D


EDIT: Shivan's Stinky Gas?
« Last Edit: June 23, 2005, 11:50:14 pm by 691 »

 
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Offline Nuke

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indeed, save the textures. i had ment to make new tiles or just use single maps but its a low priority on the nukemod adjenda. its there incase somone needs a white elephant.
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