[0rph3u5]

The Vidar is a ship meant to explore systems. It isn't big enough to carry the people, instruments and supplies needed to colonize a planet.

actually it is larger than a crovette and the neary 2/3 of an orion in lengh - so much for the size
also with a small tbl. and modelediting (I don't know the if later is actually needed) the "CryoPods" could be "DropPods" ... so think of the first wave of supplies just being dropped out of orbit like small meteroids - on impact creating a crater that would make an ideal place to found the colony in (also this things are larger than any container save for the TC-TRI/Meson Bomb)

and the colonization of a planet would rather begin with building infrasturcture than unloading people on the planet - so at first a large quatity of supplies and a large population are senseless (not too many would sign up to leave the conforts of an interstellar civilisation for running on a planet which in near pure wilderness)
than further supplies and colonists would arrive in freighters and transports on the already spaceport of some sort
---> no need for rediculusly over-sized colony ship like the one from ITDOH ^{(while that ship was more a colony on a ship than ship to colonize planets)}

[ssmit132]

The colony ship in ITDOH actually landed on the planet and became the start-up colony itself, IIRC. 

[Rodo]

Always dreamed of watching an instalation bombarding the surface of mars with nukes just to melt the ice layers on the poles , been thinking about how to make the effect on FS2 but I couldnt figure it out.

[Snail]

Always dreamed of watching an instalation bombarding the surface of mars with nukes just to melt the ice layers on the poles , been thinking about how to make the effect on FS2 but I couldnt figure it out.

You could have a ship shooting at SJDs.

[Mobius]

actually it is larger than a crovette and the neary 2/3 of an orion in lengh - so much for the size
also with a small tbl. and modelediting (I don't know the if later is actually needed) the "CryoPods" could be "DropPods" ... so think of the first wave of supplies just being dropped out of orbit like small meteroids - on impact creating a crater that would make an ideal place to found the colony in (also this things are larger than any container save for the TC-TRI/Meson Bomb)

IMO the Vidar isn't big/equipped enough to colonize a planet. It was meant as some sort of high endurance reconnaissance vessel.

[Rodo]

You could have a ship shooting at SJDs.

what's an SJD?

[TrashMan]

I'll just second the notes that Trashman's GTL Anemoi made a great logistics ship.

Hehe...funny that is was designed as a mining ship. Even stranger, I can't seem to find it on my HDD...
original image:
http://img392.imageshack.us/my.php?image=miner20ihyf8.jpg

I also don't remember giving it a name. I probably would have some symbolic name - like the God of minining/smiting/labor or something.


On a side note, this is the colony ship used in ITDOH


and this is the updated Repair ship. I still have the old lower-poly version sitting around




EDIT: Just found that miner. Misplaced the bugger....

[BS403]

You called the mining vessel the Krom. IIRC I loved the idea of it as a mining vessel.

[Droid803]

What is this "Vidar" you speak of?
Certainly it is not the INFA one?

[Snail]

What is this "Vidar" you speak of?
Certainly it is not the INFA one?

The one from Warzone.

[TrashMan]

You called the mining vessel the Krom. IIRC I loved the idea of it as a mining vessel.

Oh yeah, now I remember

[shiv]

For colonization ship I suggest going trough TBP EA ships and picking one of them

[Snail]

For colonization ship I suggest going trough TBP EA ships and picking one of them

TBH I wouldn't do that for an FS2-universe mod.

[Flaming_Sword]

For colonization ship I suggest going trough TBP EA ships and picking one of them

TBH I wouldn't do that for an FS2-universe mod.

"Why does that colony ship have pulse turrets and a pair of massive X-ray lasers? And why does it say Agamemnon on the side?"

[Mobius]

Change the table entry and a few textures, myabe?

[Snail]

Babylon 5 ships belong in the Babylon 5 universe, not in the FS2 one.

[Mobius]

Reskins and table changes aren't forbidden...

The only issues are caused by ships with designs that don't fit well in FS2 and spacecraft whose cockpits(and pilots) are bigger/smaller than FS2's.

[Snail]

Reskins and table changes aren't forbidden...

It's still a B5 ship even if it's got a different name and looks slightly different.

[Mobius]

If it can be used I don't see why it shouldn't...

[Aardwolf]

I saw a nice ship that could provide some inspiration, but it's not a model, just a picture (although the model is probably out there somewhere):



Malon Export Vessel, from Star Trek (Voyager I think)