My Ship/s

[Rockboy3970]

Well im a noob(I figure ) I have made these ships not much all I want are some helpful coments on them

(Next up im puting my efort into a nice size battle platform maybe a couple dozen nukes or so)

[Da_Dooley]

Well the first ships shape is kinda wierd and it doesn't have a real flow to it but the second ship is a little beter and it's got a defenite shape

Try some of the newer sprites, though. Stock Ships are kinda dead at this point. Nonetheless, they aren't bad.

Oh yeah, welcome to the forums. Not much happening these days, unfortunately.

[Rockboy3970]

Thank you unfortunatly I lost those files after I posted as my computer chrashed and yeah I noticed your forums were a little dead
it breaks my heart to see games like these to get flushed down the inactive toilet time to get more advertisment to the people

wait till I compleate my next ship battle doom mini its small but I can't get the shape right but I want to show yyou a pick of it in battle

[Rockboy3970]

Bwahahaha look as I unvale my new fleet

[calvin1211]

Weapon spam and aegis spam = baaaaaaaad.
Your smaller ships are much better than the others. The alien ship is the best of the lot. The 2 big ships are just plain horrible.

[Rockboy3970]

well I wanted to crush things as the minidoom can cut though non-augis protectid items like butter

P.S whats a matter with trying to win with undefeatable fire power and defence
P.S.S wow guess goodthings come in small packages cause I made the alein ship out of 6 peices 7 if you count the core

[ArcaneDude]

The matter is that most people in this forum go for aesthetics, balance or fun gameplay. Aegis and weapons spam provide none of that. My advice is, less weapons, no aegis unless very subtle and pay attention to how the ship looks. Use different colours, perhaps try SW sections, fool around with custom weapon sprites,...

[Rockboy3970]

here is a large ship Im working im not telling you the name what fun would that be now you must wach and waitnto see more

P.S yes I know it looks funky with the 2 bars at the edges sticking out but remember its suposed to look like its being built

[Doogie12]

Ew sectionspam. You do know you can use aegis deflector shields for defense and edit weapons to be insanely powerful?

[Arcalane]

Ew sectionspam. You do know you can use aegis deflector shields for defense and edit weapons to be insanely powerful?

Don't encourage him.

[jwa8402]

-Try shading light on top, dark on the outer edges.
-If you must build something large and only use the stock sections, try building larger shapes out of the smaller ones and shading accordingly so they look like one piece. Its almost always better to keep it simple with the stock sections though, good ships need be no more than a dozen sections. You would enjoy the shiny sections way more I think.
-Nothing wrong with powerful weapons or aegis, but keep in mind that its fairly easy to defeat it so your not really accomplishing anything. Better to make a sturdy ship that can take a hit because of how its built. Also if you do use aegis, best to set its color to near black so the ugly glow doesn't show up.
-Being that your smaller ships are better, I suggest mimicking or modifying the stock ship designs. That gives you something similar to play against right off the bat.

[Rockboy3970]

Wow im popular anyway back to the thing
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Ok im bored today so im just going to explain
P.S (its a BETA! )

well the reason for all the forward augis deflectors is for heavy hiting as I tried it without them and the front was torn off to bits so
I put augis deflectors and made them look blue I think it looks good (hopefully im a bit color blind might be purple)
but the weapons are the problem I just can't find the right combo it just looks to jumbled any advice on that?

P.S should see this baby in a metor storm quite interesting

(ok ive stared at this long enuff deciding weather or not to post it so here it goes)

[calvin1211]

I actually think you should stick with smaller ships for the time being. So far all your large ships have been shapeless blobs that don't look like ships.

[ArcaneDude]

I'm just going to give my two cents here. Rockboy, stop right there. Take a look around the forum and note the obvious difference between your ships and most of the others.
- First off, your ships do not have any kind of decent shape. They don't even look like ships, but, as calvin put it, like shapeless blobs.
- Second off, spamming the same large section over and over again to gain size isn't working. At all. It's ugly and won't you gain you any credit.
- Third, all red ships aren't so appealing. Certainly not if combined wit purple or white aegis.
- Fourth, spamming weapons like you're doing has it's downsides. It's ugly and will most certainly mess with the framerate in a battle. You can modify a single weapon to have the same firepower as twenty different ones.
- Fifth, most people try to simulate a sense of depth on their ships by using lighter shades of colour on parts that are supposed to be 'higher'. Right now your ships are dark red blobs with bright red outlines.
- Sixth, listen to what people say. Your smaller ships were better than the big chunks of turd you're churning out now. They weren't good, but they had room for improvement. Stick to small ships and try to improve yourself like that.
- Seventh, no one uses aegis anymore. You're free to do so, but I advise against it as it looks ugly. You want shields, try using some of the shield sections in the database.
- Eight, and this has been said before, take the time to type out your posts decently. People are having trouble understanding what you say due to lack of punctuation and proper grammar, and I don't think that's what you're trying to accomplish. At least I hope it isn't.
That's it for now. Work on these points and then we'll see.

[Rockboy3970]

There were difrent shades on it...