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Show off your ship designs 2007!

Show off your ship designs 2007!

Ship designs from around the world!

Last year, we had a thread in which people showed off some of the great ship designs they created with Galactic Civilizations II.

With the expansion pack adding so many new components and so much free form support, we'd love to see the cool things players create.

The cool thing in the expansion pack is now you can save your creations as templates and then assign the computer players to make use of those ships in various roles. Combined with the capability of creating your own custom opponents, now you can create your own sci-fi universe within GalCiv without modding.

 

 

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Reply #526 Top
Heres a few more designs.

Fortress Class Destroyer. One of my older designs which until recently was mothballed. However last night the Drengin smashed through the frontier and I needed a ship that could take a beating.









Avalon Class Raider. Designed with speed in mind. Its task, to target enemy troop transports, colony ships and trade ships.





Finally, not one of my designs but rather one of my girlfriends. The Glowstick. Doesn't have weapons, engines or armour but has a lot of as*-shaking potential.



That's it. There might be more later.
Reply #527 Top
Finally, not one of my designs but rather one of my girlfriends. The Glowstick. Doesn't have weapons, engines or armour but has a lot of as*-shaking potential.


LOL remember that robot from the last "show off your ship designs" thread? if they met in space, sure, no one could hear them scream, but i'm sure there'd be enough bass to go around.
Reply #528 Top
Page after page of gorgeous ships... You all are such fantastic manipulators of the medium.

My stuff pales in comparison so much that I'm rather reluctant to show any of it...
Reply #530 Top
*nods* I'm not good at this sort of thing...almost as not good as I am not good at playing complex strategy games like GalCiv... So
Reply #531 Top
Well...like I said... I'm terrible at this (read: uncreative) compared to everyone else here, as is evidenced by this one... It's a small base defense fighter (meant to have its weapons and shields augmented by a base).

It took me, literally, 8 hours to be even half way satisfied with it enough to put it up here (it's the first fighter I build).



(edit: I should say the look is a new one...the loadout is the same as I always use, though)
Reply #534 Top
These are all very very good.
I'm not too hot with the ship designer myself. This said, I did a search for "Ship Design Guide" and got no results.

I was wondering if there is a ship design guide of any sort that focuses on Jewelry?? I'm looking for some sort of compilation of tips when it comes to creating beautiful/creative looking ships.

Thanks much.
Reply #535 Top
I'm not too hot with the ship designer myself. This said, I did a search for "Ship Design Guide" and got no results.

I was wondering if there is a ship design guide of any sort that focuses on Jewelry?? I'm looking for some sort of compilation of tips when it comes to creating beautiful/creative looking ships.
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personally speaking... i'm not sure there could be one. i think a great deal of it is personal style. i definately wasn't very good when i started. i think the key is to just keep letting yourself go, and you learn tricks that work for you as you go. and if there's anything in particular you see and like, you could always also download ships from the library and deconstruct them (if it's available).
Reply #536 Top
make sure you go to options-interface-ship designer. and put rotate parts on freely

and turn off the button below it. otherwise you will have to redign the ship everytime you up date.
Reply #537 Top
Thanks for the infos!

Also, is it possible that some of the hardpoints on the Standard Hulls are not symmetrical? That is on one of the standard Medium Hulls (The one that is "fat" on the head+body) A set of mirroring hard-points on each side of the hull are not symmetric. That is, for example I give it Wings using those hard points, one of the wings is Crooked!!, its not at the same angle as the one on the other side even though its using the mirroring hard point.
Reply #538 Top
Also, is it possible that some of the hardpoints on the Standard Hulls are not symmetrical?
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absolutely! and many of the jewelry pieces aren't centered perfectly or don't rotate perfectly.

you can deal with some of these things by using Kryo's hull mod. unfortunately it means no MV play, but it comes with these handy invisible hardpoint offsets that i use to deal with some of the irregularities in the jewelry pieces. try it out, it's pretty nifty!
Reply #539 Top
Fleet of the Altarian Resistance - Metaverse safe

Here are the first 3 Cargo Hulls:

Colonyship Mk 1

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Constructor Mk 1

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Space Miner Mk 1

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Fleet of the Altarian Resistance - Metaverse safe

Here are the last 3 Cargo Hulls:

Freighter Mk 1

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Transport Mk 1

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Spore Ship Mk 1

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Reply #541 Top
Fleet of the Altarian Resistance - Metaverse safe

Military Vessels - Tiny Hulls

Fighter Type 01 Mk 1

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Fighter Type 02 Mk 1

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Fighter Type 03 Mk 1

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Reply #542 Top
nice ones midnight!
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Fleet of the Altarian Resistance - Metaverse safe

Military Vessels - Small Hulls

Heavy Fighter Type 01 Mk 1

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Heavy Fighter Type 02 Mk 1

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Heavy Fighter Type 03 Mk 1

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Reply #544 Top
That's it for today - i'll post the 2nd half of the fleet tomorrow.

Midnightrunner
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Fleet of the Altarian Resistance - Metaverse safe

Military Vessels - Small & Medium Hulls

Scout Mk 1 (Small Hull)

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Corvette Mk 1 (Medium Hull)

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Torpedo Bomber Mk 1 (Medium Hull)

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Fleet of the Altarian Resistance - Metaverse safe

Military Vessels - Medium Hulls

Survey Ship Mk 1

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Orbital Defense Platform Type 01 Mk 1

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Orbital Defense Platform Type 02 Mk 1

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Fleet of the Altarian Resistance - Metaverse safe

Military Vessels - Large Hulls

Destroyer Mk 1

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Frigate Mk 1

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Light Cruiser Mk 1

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Reply #548 Top
Some really nice ships there!!
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Fleet of the Altarian Resistance - Metaverse safe

Military Vessels - Huge Hulls

Battle Cruiser Mk 1

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Battleship Mk 1

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Combat Transport Mk 1

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Midnightrunner
Reply #550 Top
All designs for that fleet have been posted - feel free to comment them.
I will prepare them later today for upload to the library.

Greetings

Midnightrunner