I must say i really like all the designs , but there is one litle thing on my mind. If we give the Xenos their own their own shipline, and , seeing as they can blast preety much anyone inside their ZoI, wouldnt this make all the lolwutting pvpwhores migrate to them ? I mean ... i dont wanna see wave upon wave of Black Widows flyin around , blasting everyone...
Quote:Basically, don't bother with new ships for the xenos (aside from the blazer-like LF and a transport) and just concentrate on making some awesome xeno skins for the roc and eagle. Make them look like they're old and beaten up. The xenos don't have enough money or time to heavily modify their ships, nor would there be much point in doing so. Sure, internally the wiring would have been peiced together by a loonatic who solders with a welding torch, but extrenally, not much different other than looking beaten up. They certainly wouldn't go welding redundant spikes on the front of their ships.
As I said before, the spikes would be for psychological warfare - designed to intimidate the opponent. We see that kind of thing on several other ships in the mod, why not xenos? They are terrorists, afterall... even if they're fighting for the right reasons.
Other than that, the only change I see to these ships is:
a) Big armor plates welded all to the outsides - logical, since xenos cant afford high tech ablative armor or high grade shielding, they use the more primitive but equally effective ideology of "The more material between me and my enemy, the safer I am".
b) Rusty, beat-up paintjobs, with custom painted logos on the hulls.
Nothing about these ships says that the xenos put a lot of effort into making them fancy or high tech, they've simply got the kind of modification you would do if you needed more combat effectiveness without much money to spend.
Quote:I must say i really like all the designs , but there is one litle thing on my mind. If we give the Xenos their own their own shipline, and , seeing as they can blast preety much anyone inside their ZoI, wouldnt this make all the lolwutting pvpwhores migrate to them ? I mean ... i dont wanna see wave upon wave of Black Widows flyin around , blasting everyone...
The situation would be no different than what it is now - there are plenty of xeno players flying around crows, eagles, and roc bombers blasting everything in sight, most of them yee-hawing while doing it. The only difference with these ships added would be that the xenos now look like their own faction while blowing people up, instead of looking like lunatic civilians.
While the models look awesome (as usual), I can't quite see the implementation. As Jinx pointed out, while a used ship may look beaten up, to have it parked next to another used ship, which is beaten up in the same ways...kinda hard to explain. I wonder if a slightly weathered Eagle skin might not do the job better-the aesthetic variations only visible to the pilot or someone looking really close, but keeping the "generic-ness" at long range.
Unless, of course, someone was willing to model a different ship for each and every Xeno player...
I'm having a chat on skype with Yue and Dusty at the moment and see what we come up with.
Frankly I love the idea of one or two custom xeno ships, but not a whole line. It seems a little bit over the top.
The idea of a weathered skin on an existing eagle is lovely, and perhaps if that could be sold in t-45 as a "Xeno Eagle" then I'd be much happier with the idea.