Zaran Federation fleet

Zardian · Post by **Zardian** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 1:36 am

Zaran Federation fleet shipyards

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critisism / ideas / suggestions welcome
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General info:
-All ships can be crippled by destroying the engines. (duh)
-No shield technology, but heavy armor plating.
-Planning on adding a construction tree (aka shipyard makes a carrier which makes an interceptor etc)
-health amount doesn't mean a must for all sections, many sections have custom hp based on how important they are.
-very little point defense tech

Wasp

Interceptor, very weak, pathetic weaponry, very fast, can be built in a Kraken.
1x Tiny Kinetic Gun
hp: 30

Hoplite

Frigate, some armor, light weaponry, basic frigate.
2x Light Kinetic Gun
2x Light Missile Battery
hp: 360

Hypapist

Frigate, little armor,weaponry is weak except for the heavy beam cannon.
2x Tiny Kinetic Gun
1x Heavy Beam Cannon
hp: 350

Kraken

Light Carrier, some armor, weak weaponry, can build Wasps
4x Hull Defense Beam
2x Heavy Missile Battery
2x Wasp Bay
hp: 800

Cerberus

Cruiser, medium weaponry, strong armor plating.
6x Light Kinetic Gun
6x Hull Defense Beam
2x Light Missile Battery
2x Heavy Kinetic Cannon
hp: 620

Valkyr

Cruiser, anti-capital weaponry, strong armor
6x Heavy Missile Battery
6x Hull Defense Beam
4x Heavy Kinetic Cannon
hp: 580

Nidhug

Battlecruiser, heavy weaponry, capital armor
8x Light Kinetic Gun
8x Hull Defense Beam
6x Heavy Missile Battery
2x Repeating Heavy Cannon
2x Light Missile Battery
2x Pulse Interceptor
1x Nidhug Beam Weapon

hp: 860 (heaviest armour 1200)

download: http://filesmelt.com/downloader/Zaran_F ... fleet4.zip
or: http://filesmelt.com/dl/Zaran_Federation_fleet4.zip

Rugdumph · Post by **Rugdumph** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 2:30 am

I like it. Colours could be depthed abit more, lighter higher, darker lower etc. Oh and is the blue bit between the two front guns the cockpit? if so it looks brilliant. The colour scheme itself is good, and the blue matches the tone of it well. No clutter and nice use of sections. Altogether a nice solid looking ship

Zardian · Post by **Zardian** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 2:54 am

its the cockpit and thanks.

Corporal Jomn · Post by **Corporal Jomn** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 7:10 am

Cool! Doesn't seem to have any of the classic n00b mistakes. You can also take a pic of it in Shipmaker. You can make an entire fleet in this style!

hazelwooder · Post by **hazelwooder** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 7:16 am

looks good for your first SW ship.
i suggest 2 things
look in to colouring and changing the size of the exhausts,
and prehaps instead of using pure grey you could add a slight hint of brown into it.

i look forward to seeing a fleet.

Zardian · Post by **Zardian** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 9:09 pm

new ship added: Cerberus
whatcha think?

Rugdumph · Post by **Rugdumph** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 9:23 pm

Very good, nice section work, nice colours, no clutter. I'm finding it very hard to give you any constructive criticism on these...hmm...let me think...well the grey is depthed very well, maybe if the brown was slightly depthed so it's not all the exact same shade.

Zardian · Post by **Zardian** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 6:16 am

bump
2 new ships: Kraken and Wasp
updated some stuff, i saved the hoplite over cerberus and had to completely redo it from a screenshot, updates to it too. like allways C & C would be much appreciated as well as ideas / suggestions.

Kiltric · Post by **Kiltric** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 6:32 am

Wasp is nice for a small fighter, though for the sake of theme I think it should have a grey, more closed off nose like the others.

The glow on Kraken is a very nice effect, though that area seems frightfully thin. Keep the glow, but consider beefing it up just a bit.

Cerberus is nice. I particularly like the engine work. However, the six side guns would benefit from a more secure mounting.

You have a very nice fleet budding here. I'd love to see it in action.

Doogie12 · Post by **Doogie12** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 6:10 am

Kiltric wrote:Cerberus is nice. I particularly like the engine work. However, the six side guns would benefit from a more secure mounting.

aww...I liked it better when you had missiles on the side instead.
I strongly suggest you go back to that

Bentusi · Post by **Bentusi** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 6:31 am

Whoa, i like that ships, looks like some Batman Rocket Car or something, Really Good Colouring! and i love the pilot command bridge, Continue that lovely fleet ! and make some enemy ships

Zardian · Post by **Zardian** » Fri Jan 22, 2010 5:15 am

ok sorry ive been a little inactive, glad to hear you guys like em so much.
some small updates on old ships again tho, ill start working on a new ones now.
im planning on making the Nerans (enemy) maybe and only after im done with these.
the Cerberus still has missiles on the sides ( i guess their hard to spot, or you just meant the other sprites, anyway their Heavy missile batteries now)
edit: finished Hypapist, a beam frigate.

Zardian · Post by **Zardian** » Sat Feb 13, 2010 6:33 am

BUMP!
another cruiser, Valkyr

Danny420Dale · Post by **Danny420Dale** » Sat Feb 13, 2010 9:19 am

Your pics are all broken.

Zardian · Post by **Zardian** » Sat Feb 13, 2010 5:29 pm

filesmelt seems to be having some problems -.-