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Another Newbie, Allo!

Post by Marasmusine »

Hello to everyone. I've been playing Battleships Forever for a few days now and jolly nice it is too.
Here's my first crack at some custom ships, and I'm hoping these img will tags work, as they don't in the preview.

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"The Prince" and "The Consort" are a light and heavy battleship respectively.
Having not been on the forums much yet, I've yet to learn what might be considered a cliched design, so feedback appreciated. I think possibly these two might be a bit too haphazard. The turret mounts on the section 13's at the rear are modified gatling blasters, firing 2 bursts of 2 instead of 1 burst of 4, in glorious pink: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3163/272 ... bab25b.jpg
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"The Empress" is the Regency's standard carrier class.
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Post by Darkship »

use photobucket (www.photobucket.com), its better. As for the ships, can i have a bigger picture, they look like they have a funky new design, which is good.

edit: yay big pictures

now my thoughts, nice new design, very different from what is seen here usually, alien parts will have with the alien feel of the design.
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Post by Exethalion »

These aren't at all cliche designs. They are quite strange, I would recommend trying a few more of the 'alien' sections. The Teal overlays look good.

For the pics, snip the ?v=0 bit off the end of the links and it should work.
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Post by LordGarcia »

Hey Welcome to the forums, I hope you have a good time here.

Now to the ships: I'm not a big fan of the colorcheme but thats not important. the shapes are cool and they aren't overgunned. Maybe there might be a bit to much pc for my taste. also there are some badly overstreched sections on the bigger ship.

also to get those image tags to work you simly have to delete the "?v=0" part then it will work fine

meh.. exe was faster :(
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Post by Marasmusine »

Thanks for the warm (and rapid) welcome. The magenta is custom colour, whilst the teal is player defined. I see what you mean about the overstretch.
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Post by DoubleThink »

The color scheme is quite awesome. The ships do seem a tad bit haphazard, but the originality of them makes up for that. Keep building, I want to see what more you do.
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Post by Commodore111 »

They look like both alien ships and pirate ships.


They're alien pirates!
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Post by antisocialmunky »

This color scheme must die for the following reason:

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The Barney fleet burns so horribly.

EDIT: After looking at them abit longer. They do have an interesting shape... But the color is just really jarring.
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Post by jwa8402 »

I think if you added a head onto the second ship it would actually overlay fairly well over the barney pictue :shock:

Ignoring barney for a second(damn you anti now I have that song stuck in my head) The color use is refeshing, as are the unique shapes.

Biggest thing on your second ship is that the core is exposed, try putting a section in front of it like on the first one, since AI target the core.

Would love to see more ships along this line. Still even though its not a noob ship, a shot of ChaosTheory's sword smiting a barney ship would be pure laughs. *edit* make that a video with the 'I hate you, you hate me' themesong
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Post by Nevindar »

Rather interesting design, I say. Have a cool "organic" feeling to it.
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Post by Marasmusine »

I think I have a penchant for pink and cyan from the lightguns from two-player arcade cabinets (Point Blank, Lethal Enforcers, etc.)
I'll work on one more large battleship in this style, using the advice given above. Many thanks!
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Post by LordGarcia »

yeah keep that style, I really like how all the blue pieces touch eachother, gives it a skeleton-ish feeling
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Post by Marasmusine »

As suggested, I've put some protection in front of The Consort's core, and enlarged the gatling blasters a little (as they do damage 19 now)

For The Empress, I've tried to use more Alien pieces.
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