Home world is another one of my favorite games.
Most of the ships I liked very much. The stealth fighters looked awesome
there were only a few that I didnt like.
I havent played it in so Long (maybe I will load it back up tonight)
but I liked the look of all the crusiers and gunships.

I'm didnt say in my post that all the ships should look like
a f14 tomcat or f 16 . Just that they need more attitude.

I think the valkrie looks like a triangle (the nose) a recangle( the body) and a cylinder (the rear end)




Now Here is a good looking ship



Here is a question what did you think of the ships in the wing commander movie?

Edited by - Moff on 07-03-2003 03:11:12

Edited by - Moff on 07-03-2003 03:13:56

Edited by - Moff on 07-03-2003 03:14:46

Hehe, that movie. They were WWII fighter planes, plain and simple It was cool, but kinda odd imo.

Yes, the Valk has a simple under body, but then don't other ships too? An F16 is more or less a triangle with a cylinder down the center, isn't it?
But I digress, maybe it's not the actual shape of the ship, but more of it's attitude, as you have been saying. The Bret and Kusari ships feel... light, maneuverable, while the Rheinland ships are totally bulky, showing their strength.

In HW, both sides had the same ships - same stats, same everything, except their models, which were very distinctive of their race, very well done

Hmmm, maybe it's because some of the ships feel very alien? In FS2, the human ships were all like fighters. The Shivan and Vasudan ships were totally different, but they made sense.


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You guys remember the fighter in the movie "The Last Starfighter"? Now that ship rocked. What was it's special power? The Death Blossom?

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Yea, I don't like the kusari drone either, it looks like a giant chinchilla for crying out loud, any way you look at it, it just resembles a rodent, the big curved hull, those giant "sails" that look like ears, and the pointy cockpit all adds up to that impression. Not to mention the engine placements.. they look like giant rodent testes...
ARRGGH, what were they smoking?

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You guys remember the fighter in the movie "The Last Starfighter"?

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Hell, that's a blast from the past. I remember that special move where the ship just went mental and started firing in all directions.



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That movie's so lame... Nothing like that ever happens to me!

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dammit i want the Swordfish II not the last star fighter POS

Im just surprised how low the poly count is , Its almost the same as in some of the latest Wing commander series , just look at some of the modern flight simulators / car sims , much more poly's for a game models . I personally find the pirate ships to be uber butt ugly , as one of you guys said , what were they smoking ???

I really hope people are able to put new ships in the game soon.

Every ship I have seen so far in game looks HORRIBLE.

They look like space debris randomly fused together by a psychotic welder.

I am also shocked that you get *NO* customization! No paint. No decals. Not even the NAME of your ship .

the Dagger is the only decent looking one.

Remodling/texturing the ships would be an cool idea to make the ships look a lot nicer for the higher end computers out there. But I also believe that if the ships were remodeled, that the original shape of the ships should be preserved and the focus of the remodel would be to improve the polycount/geometric detail/texturing of the ship.

Some of the ships are not the most 'pleasing to the eye' for some of us, and likewise for others... but I do agree with DA choice in the models shapes, that the look of the ships was supposed to be representative with the ideology of the house that it came from.

Of course, for the sake of framerate, the LOD ranges would also have to be changed as well so that you weren't chugging when a bunch of ships came into view as well.

BTW, anyone know if a .3db conversion plugin or program has found its way out yet?

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Well it looks like there a ton of things an expnasion could do for this game
but if they support it like they did Starlancer (ie. not at all) then its up to the mod community to do the work.

Maybe they could just give us a simple color scheme editor like Homeworld, where we can customise our own ships color! We could at least have some real distinction for our ship. Just an idea...

Ah, a nice simple 2 color choice that has patches, that'd be really sweet. ATM, all the ships look the same, so it's kinda boring. I like them, but for MP, people need some more individuality.


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