The Mael? =( I am disappointed. The Megathron hull is absolutely gorgeous. It may be my favorite hull (despite rarely flying Gallente. But, and let's be honest, no one can deny Amarrian ship design beauty =prenegade7 said:From EVE Online, the Maelstrom:
I almost decided on the Hurricane, but there were two reasons I picked the Maelstrom instead:
-Biggest subcap is best subcap (The Maelstrom is about 1300 meters in length on its long axis and the only larger subcap, the Machariel, literally looks like a piece of poo)
-The sound of eight 1400MM cannons on a high-fidelity surround sound system. Seriously, CCP has really done a good job in the last few years of improving the audio.
The Maelstrom also has a special sentimental place to me. One of the first times I undocked from my starter station in my tiny little Reaper frigate (about 30 meters in length) I was right next to one of these going only slightly faster, and flying right next to it and turning the camera towards it the Maelstrom filled up the entire screen for almost the entire 20 or so seconds it took me to fly past it. That tiny green mark I made on the picture represents the size difference. It was just epic.
And to round out the sense of scale, if you were to take a picture of a Titan at the resolution of that picture and draw an only slightly-larger line, you would have a fair representation of the difference in size between a battleship like the Maelstrom and a Titan.
Where are the curves?!! See that is the problem with these vs the Jove. Jove ships are just so much sexier. I am just not seeing the beauty without curves in just the right places..BodomBeachChild said:The Mael? =( I am disappointed. The Megathron hull is absolutely gorgeous. It may be my favorite hull (despite rarely flying Gallente. But, and let's be honest, no one can deny Amarrian ship design beauty =prenegade7 said:From EVE Online, the Maelstrom:
I almost decided on the Hurricane, but there were two reasons I picked the Maelstrom instead:
-Biggest subcap is best subcap (The Maelstrom is about 1300 meters in length on its long axis and the only larger subcap, the Machariel, literally looks like a piece of poo)
-The sound of eight 1400MM cannons on a high-fidelity surround sound system. Seriously, CCP has really done a good job in the last few years of improving the audio.
The Maelstrom also has a special sentimental place to me. One of the first times I undocked from my starter station in my tiny little Reaper frigate (about 30 meters in length) I was right next to one of these going only slightly faster, and flying right next to it and turning the camera towards it the Maelstrom filled up the entire screen for almost the entire 20 or so seconds it took me to fly past it. That tiny green mark I made on the picture represents the size difference. It was just epic.
And to round out the sense of scale, if you were to take a picture of a Titan at the resolution of that picture and draw an only slightly-larger line, you would have a fair representation of the difference in size between a battleship like the Maelstrom and a Titan.
I second the Aloha Oe, baby!FPLOON said:Other that than, you can't go wrong with the...https://i.imgur.com/Pms5Yws.png
Maximillian freaked me out as a kid. I still like this movie, even if the ending is an acid trip.Jute88 said:No problem! Just hope that the movie is entertaining to you as well =)Nazulu said:Ha! Yeah, the image was even called Black Hole. It sounds interesting, thanks for letting me knowJute88 said:Looks like the ship from '79 movie Black Hole. It's basically studying a black hole and the commander is an insane scientist with his robot henchmen running the ship. It's pretty entertaining.Nazulu said:I was immediately fascinated with the idea of this one -
I couldn't remember where I found this. Took me around 20 minutes
Traitor! With a noble name like that how could you turn your back on such beauty?!Katherine Kerensky said:I was always a bit of a fan of the way Honorverse ships looked.
And it's totally not because of their interesting... shape.
My first thought was, "well, it's gotta be something from the Advent, yeah?"Riddle78 said:Take any non-Vasari ship from Sins of a Solar Empire. Any one of them. So long as the Vasari didn't build them. They're all fuckin' beautiful. Like the Halcyon-class Carrier,or the Ankylon-class Titan.
What a fine collection of dildos and butt plu... I mean Jump Ships and Drop Ships.Vigormortis said:
Speak for yourself! I love the Defiant.shrekfan246 said:Also, I'm a little surprised there isn't more love for the Defiant.
Their capitol and titan-class ship designs are nothing short of magnificent.My first thought was, "well, it's gotta be something from the Advent, yeah?"
As far as I'm concerned, a spaceship isn't a spaceship unless it looks like it could fit into a giant space anus.AccursedTheory said:What a fine collection of dildos and butt plu... I mean Jump Ships and Drop Ships.
It does feel like the ending of 2001 Space Odyssey, just more nightmarish. But I remember really liking the movie for the sets, effects, music and atmosphere.Programmed_For_Damage said:Maximillian freaked me out as a kid. I still like this movie, even if the ending is an acid trip.Jute88 said:No problem! Just hope that the movie is entertaining to you as well =)Nazulu said:Ha! Yeah, the image was even called Black Hole. It sounds interesting, thanks for letting me knowJute88 said:Looks like the ship from '79 movie Black Hole. It's basically studying a black hole and the commander is an insane scientist with his robot henchmen running the ship. It's pretty entertaining.Nazulu said:I was immediately fascinated with the idea of this one -
I couldn't remember where I found this. Took me around 20 minutes
Honestly, when I think of Battletech, I don't think of it for the ships. Though, I did read some good fiction featuring ships combat. The only ship design I really like from Battletech is probably the MechWarrior Online redesign of the Leopard dropship.Vigormortis said:Traitor! With a noble name like that how could you turn your back on such beauty?!Katherine Kerensky said:I was always a bit of a fan of the way Honorverse ships looked.
And it's totally not because of their interesting... shape.
I am disappointed.
OneCatch said:My favourite ship descriptions are probably those of the Culture-verse. Annoyingly, it's pretty much impossible to represent - larger vessels are generally made up of many modular components (anything from hundreds of kilometers long down to nanoscale), enclosed and held within force fields of various shape, colour, and luminosity. Meaning a large ship can basically look however it wants by redistributing it's mass around, extending and retracting it's fields.
Still, DeviantArt has a few admirable attempts to represent one:
(Yes, those are mountains and terrain features. While this isn't explicitly referenced in the books, larger ships would certainly have the ability to construct large scale terrain on themselves, and given their general trend of eccentricity there's probably one that would want to.
(This is probably more in line with the general consensus. The specs are likely attendant vessels on the order of a km or two long, whereas the GSV itself might be dozens or hundreds of km long including the bubble of force fields.