i don t really know what you mean. - the cylindrical drum is no design of mine - but rather a design element of some freelancer ships ( mostly rheinland though ) - its sort of a design concept describing a non "high end" ship - in terms of a non seamless chassis.
about the wings - yes, they can be shortened. - they might really be a little too wide.
either way - thats only a concept for 4.87 ( not .86 ) - 4.86 ships are already submitted and i won t add anything to the next update.
thats why i haven t placed it into the "ship submission" section.... its playing with the thought and concept idea......
once its 4.86 - there ll be at least a year anyway until we think of another update - so do not expect anything like that ingame any time soon.
The 'engine' component looks just like other ship 'engine' components that you have made.
It essentially establishes a distinct line of ships, all completely un-related to each other yet sharing similar designs. Very odd.
EDIT: A vast majority of your ships all share that cylindrical engine design.
We could roleplay it as new engine technology but till we do that, it looks out of place.
I'm sorry, jinx, but I like your first version a lot more. It had more of a prototype-ish yet sophisticated feeling to it while the current model looks like an unfortunate mixture of an odin and an eagle =/
I dislike the spikes/antennas/sticks that you seem to slap on all your models for reasons that I don't quite understand yet. And while the shape of the wings is quite appealing and elegant, the extreeeeemely stretched cockpit and the ... drum things at the back sort of blank that out.
Also, with the stretched wings and the mentioned cockpit, it actually feels more like a bomber than a fighter - let alone HF.
ahh - well, can t hit the nail each time.:)- gonne revise it a little ( or a bit more than a little )
about the first concept - yea, i liked that a lot more, too... sadly though it was erased ( or rather thrown into the garbage ) when i threw the old harddrive away.
for now - it appears that the following characteristics are not appreciated on designs:
- elongated cockpit sections
- reactor drum design seen on most rheinland ships
- "bird of prey" downwards bent mainframes ( someone complained about it in another thread )
- plane-like designs