[Clave]

Originally posted by Carl
I'm gonna have to go with

If you made that, and I'm sure you did, I hate you...

[Fearless Leader]

The Death Star, but I would fill in that stupid trench with all sorts of guns and... WHY IS THERE EVEN A TRENCH THERE?

[aldo_14]

Where else would you put the trench?

[Fearless Leader]

Maybe I would put it on the rebel base.

Stupid rebels, always spoiling my plans. and theri little dog to.

[Admiral Nelson]

I'd go with the Death Star also.... AND a guy with couple of trash can lids to put over that exhaust port whenever any pesky fighters came by!

[Deepblue]

Damn cool ship.

[Fearless Leader]

Where do I know that ship from?

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]Halo IIRC, Pillar of Autumn?

I still think it's a second rate Sulaco.
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[aldo_14]

Halo

(shockeroony).

It's actually a pretty good interpretation of an otherwise generic design (big box with bits out).  The one thing is that there's a lack of visible weaponry, which means you kind of lose the sense of impressiveness (that sort of decreasing sized design gives a good sense of scale, viewed from that angle).

Halycon class, innit?

EDIT;
Yeah, it's nowhere near the quality of the Sulaco.  Defo inspired by (as was the Pelican dropship) Aliens.  It's quite strange how the Halo (human) stuff is both distinctive and pretty generic at the same time; I've never decided if it's a good trait or not.

EDIT2;
Sulaco

[Deepblue]

[Deepblue]

Originally posted by aldo_14
Halo

(shockeroony).

It's actually a pretty good interpretation of an otherwise generic design (big box with bits out).  The one thing is that there's a lack of visible weaponry, which means you kind of lose the sense of impressiveness (that sort of decreasing sized design gives a good sense of scale, viewed from that angle).

Halycon class, innit?

EDIT;
Yeah, it's nowhere near the quality of the Sulaco.  Defo inspired by (as was the Pelican dropship) Aliens.  It's quite strange how the Halo (human) stuff is both distinctive and pretty generic at the same time; I've never decided if it's a good trait or not.

EDIT2;
Sulaco

Yeah Halycon. I was going to use the In Amber Clad (visible weaponry on this one [Halo 2]) but there is a huge lack of pics of it on the net.

I love the Sulaco. But other than texture style the design itself is still unique. The Pelican is a cooler (IMHO) interpretation of the Aliens dropship, and the marines from the first game are no different from Aliens marines (Sarge in Halo = Sarge in Alien). They change in Halo 2 though.

EDIT: This is the best pic I can find of the In Amber Clad...



You really get a sense of scale for this thing in the game as the first level has it docked on Cairo station and you can see it out the windows, plus it does a flyby of you after jumping into High Charity

EDIT 2: I still think the Pelican in particular kicks arse.

[aldo_14]

I'd note, though, it's pretty damn impossible to make a dropship uncool.  Paint it pink with blacmange stripes, and it'd still by principle kick arse.

[Fearless Leader]

On seccond thought... I would build 7 fortress worlds that when activated would destroy most life in the universe. Then leave a semi sentient robot in control. And put some unstoppable paricitical organisms in a place were anybody could let them out.

[Deepblue]

The AI has to be insane and enigmatic as well.

[aldo_14]

[q]EDIT: This is the best pic I can find of the In Amber Clad...[/q]

Hmm.  Not sure on that one myself.

I think some of the Covvie ships were pretty neat, nice organic shapes, but I only remember the odd bit of concept art.

[Martinus]

Originally posted by aldo_14
Hmm.  Not sure on that one myself.

[color=66ff00]Yeah, it's got flying brick syndrome.
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[Deepblue]

The In Amber Clad is not nearly as cool as the Halycon class design as it is much boxier. However, what was really impressive is how well you got the sense of scale for that thing, you could tell it was massive.

Yeah, the covie ships were awesome, unfortunately you don't see enough of them.

[Fearless Leader]

Originally posted by Deepblue
The AI has to be insane and enigmatic as well.

It will be.

But wait, there is more!  

Ill build small defencive robots that cant stop the parasites, and big ones that can pick up tanks and only have sheilds in the front.  After that Ill make bridges in random places and really big doors.

[Deepblue]

"What is the tensile strangth of light anyway?"

[Fearless Leader]

I dont know...


Deepblue, if you even think of crashing your ship into my ring and...  Thats what your thinking now isnt it?

THAT'S IT!

Just for that, as soon as I build them Im turning the key!