Ship builders

[stewcool]

Each builder I've seen, their models and such.

Have a specific section of sirius where they make ships.

Ever so often they make one for a system not in the
area they are in.

Example. Lets say I made a ship.
I would probably make a Zoner/Order ship.
Because I see those more often then not.
Then say I tried to make a ship for something
not in my line. Lets say Kusari. Now the design
may look nice but it would still resemble
the order/zoner side in some way.

Did any of you other people notice that. Or am I just
seeing random things?

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[Lunaphase]

Not just you.

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[Xing]

I don't know. I feel my rheinland ships feel very rheinland, and my libertonian ones, very libertonian.

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[Linkus]

I just make ships, they tend not to have a design till I get their overall shape done. Then I start to consider the various factions it might appeall to. Though I mostly work with civilian and utility ships anyway.

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[Elvin]

Its not just you... There are exceptions of sure, but lets face the fact that most of people like some part of Siruis, and only some faction...

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I buy things I don't want to make an impression on people I don't like.

[Jinx]

while i wouldn t agree with all epyon said in the destroyer thread - one thing does help - and that is playing the faction and knowing others that play it.

its hard to make a ship for a faction that you simply cannot think of yourself to be part of. - ( well aside from skill and technical issues )

so - for an outcast its easier to make a good outcast ship - for a corsair its easier to make a good corsair ship. ( and its not only what you play on the server - but rather what your "heart is at" ) many players play multiple factions - often contradicting factions - but they would very often still consider one faction their "main faction" for whatever reason. - a faction they feel at home.

its not too hard to copy faction characteristics - but its not easy to innovate something really new. - but there s also luck of course - often a model simply turns out to look good ( or bad ).

a good example is mohrs BHG bomber - a masterpiece of a model - but i m not sure if Mohr actually played the BHG at all ... while his kusari bomber ( catamaran ) isn t really one of his best models.

many good models happen only cause they turned out to look good in the process of modelling them. - if i had a scanner - i d show you the drawn concept for the zoner gunboat - which looks very different to the one that actually made it - and i guess it happens to many ships.

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[RingoW]

The next point is, model creator is also a designer. Every designer has its shapes he likes most and is using them repeatedly. I made ships for various factions. I consider them different, but you will find more or less used similar shapes. Eventhough the general look might appear completely different.
For gallic criminal shipline i tried something new in general design, but even there shapes are to be found used in previous models.

AoM

[Camtheman Of Freelancer4Ever]

And you notice how most cap ships are just larger sized counterparts of their fighter cousins?

[stewcool]

I feel I learned something. Whilst reading all that.

Now I go back to learning how to use milkshape.

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[Carme]

And you notice how most cap ships are just larger sized counterparts of their fighter cousins?

Or more accurately fighters are like smaller counterparts of their Faction's Capital ships?