[Nyctaeus]

I'm looking for a good model to be Colony Ship. A massive, destroyer sized [or bigger] ship used to provide a lot of food, fresh water, to support large population onboard and hundreds of hibernation capsules. Something like Sanctuary from Blue Planet, but designed especialy for this purpose.

I checked everything and have no idea what should I use. Trashman's Majestic is a too bricky and pretty low poly compared to rest of my fleet. Scooby Doo's Coral Sea supercarrier is probably the best candidate, but there is bunch of work with stripping down this thing from numerous turrets and stuff. Also I would have to make new textures.

So what do You suggest, my dear community? What should I use? Maybe someone want to contribute my little project and model something for me?

[fightermedic]

http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/GTD_Damocles

[Nyctaeus]

http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/GTD_Damocles

Used in mod with other role. The problem of Damocles is also her skeletal design, when I need something blocky, bulky and freakin massive like botanic ship from BSG: Reimagined.

[Colonol Dekker]

Ask Scooby doo if he has the source still. He could give you said ship, minus turrets...if he's in a good mood.

[MatthTheGeek]

Turrets are excessively easy to remove via PCS2.

[Droid803]

Turrets are excessively easy to removed via PCS2.

This.

However, if there are modelled turret platforms for the turrets, they may remain and well, look strange.

[Nyctaeus]

Platworms are subobjects and they are not a problem. It starts when you have 50+ turrets, each one with destroyed version, no matter how easy it is. Plus the Coral Sea will be used as a last resort as I imagined this ship much different.

[TrashMan]

A have a old colony ship, but it's low-poly and badly textuires. Should really update it.

That said, I do have a mobile shipyard desin, but well....it's just a mesh atm so no dice there.


Hm.... maybe you could use the new Sizifus (ignore the crappy model in the wiki). It might pass for a colony ship with a big container.

[Nyctaeus]

Might work if I won't use Sizifus as freighter. I already contacted SolCommand, maybe he could do some request for me.
Trashman, as for Your colony ship and mobile shipyard - you can release it anyway. Maybe someone found them useful .

[Mongoose]

I know there's at least one luxury space liner model floating around out there.  Something like that might be repurposed as a colony ship in a pinch.

[Trivial Psychic]

Columbus
Majestic

[Black Wolf]

Perhaps you could consider repurposing an existing asset? Triple or quadruple the scale of something like the Upanishad from Blue Planet, rescale the turrets, change the blue lights to yellow, and maybe recolour the blue stripes as well, and it'll look more like a typical GTVA terran ship, and might fit the bill.

[Droid803]

You do realize that the Upanishad itself is a repurposed corvette, right, which is somewhat...ironic?

[Black Wolf]

Nope, didn't know that. Good to know though.

[Droid803]

It does prove your point very well though!

[fightermedic]

if you don't mind using slightly older models, you can use the http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/GTE_Vidar
i can give you a slightly changed pof, with a hangerbay added and new turreting, if you are interested too

[Nyctaeus]

Columbus looks pretty good for the role I need it. Despite it's almost as old the FS community itself, it's the best option for know. Thanks for the advice. I still have hope I will contact SolCommand.

[TrashMan]

Yeah, I'm gonna give it a makeover. It badly needs one.

[Scooby_Doo]

Ask Scooby doo if he has the source still. He could give you said ship, minus turrets...if he's in a good mood.

You mean my Frankenship?  Yup I still have it around although it's probably too massive for game-play.  It was designed as a colony/last survivor ship (actually I am backstorying it as a extremely ancient lower-class ship that was long lost and extremely powerful even with massive loss of weapons during the billions of years of neglect.) that was discovered during some event (shivans overrunning terran, borg, tyrranids, etc...) and a lone wander battle group on the run discovers it.   Ok a bit like Blake 7 minus the evil empire bit LOL

[Dragon]

Frankenship? Could you show some pics? I never seen it.