Uh, yeah. I think the point of all this discussion, Trashie, is that your model is less detailed than the original while taking up more polies and looking not as good, while still being too similar to tell the difference between the Typhoon and Typhon.
We can't see why anyone would choose your model over the Volition one except that it's different, and there's already a wealth of Vasudan destroyers that are not only different, but creatively designed and well crafted. If you can bring that model up to par with the offical version and make it distinct enough that we can accept it as a new class, then fine. If you want to use if in your campaign as-is and don't give a hoot about our opinions, that's your opinion.
But if we're telling you what that we don't like your model and tell you why, and what you could do to fix it, that's feedback and constructive criticism, and is the main reason why this board exists. If it's a BETA then obviously you feel it's unfinished and needs some work; that's why I posted my heavy cruiser and asked for help.
We don't have to like it, but we experienced modelers (like me, Aldo, Nico, Stratt and others) are somewhat demanding of ourselves. Aldo 'dumps' models better than most of us will make in our careers, and Nico's been known to throw out weeks of texturing work because he wasn't satisfied with it. Me, I take my crappy models and donate them to Inferno.
If you like your model then use it, but heed our comments. You're one of the most productive modelers on the boards, TrashMan, and nobody can complain about that.
Oh, and Gregster: Chill out. We're not opposed to Variety, we're opposed to lots of work going into something not many people are going to think is worth downloading. We're not discouraging anyone from making a reskin of a ship and calling it new; some really great mods have been done that way. But we like to see creativity and when something's still in the oven, we like to give feedback so it can still be worked on before all the effort goes into making it gameworthy.
