Right, first, I'd like to say that this ship only has one custom texture file (for the hangar, and also the Liberty star in front, which I intend to keep uniform blue because of personal aesthetic tastes), of about 1.7kb.
Second, the ship poly has been reduced at roughly 9.8K.
People don't really realize how heavily detailed this ship is - there are details on the deck so small, you can barely see them from such distanced screenshot, not to mention details of the deck on the belly of the ship. I have further added some details on the engine block - which you wont see on these screen on first page because they are very minimal.
This, in sum, is probably about the final version of the ship I think.
I have also received suggestion to make the carrier a special RP ship only, too. Not sure if it is necessary, but I feel like the idea should be mentioned here nonetheless.
Otherwise, I have nothing to say concerning stats technicalities, and that is all.
You could always experiment with different engine chassis, look at the BHG BS - It doesnt have a very large Engine component.
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Then you got past the launch bays. From that point on, it looks kinda 'uhm'.
The bridge-ish area and back look kind of odd and all garbled together. I think it may just be the viewpoint.
Now, I know that you've stated 'Final Version,' but the engines still need more work. They still only appear to be massive, although detailed, cylinders strapped to the back of a box. The connection of the engines and the rest of the ship needs to be just a tad more substantial.
You could always experiment with different engine chassis, look at the BHG BS - It doesnt have a very large Engine component.
Actually, to be dead serious, triangular triple engine to fit the current space.
Obviously this would require smaller engines and to merge into the design I would suggest some sort of overlay between the middle part and the engines.
If it was supposed to be really high quality, it should have multiple LODs and functional cargo bay doors. Or maybe two docking bays if it's a carrier.
One thing to note: All vanilla Battleships are carriers.
If you would like to export this ship as an OBJ and send it my way I could give you a much better idea of where the huge poly count is coming. You have done a good job at bringing it down though.