Delta shipyards

[STARSTRUCK]

That's a damn unique ship and I like it. My only complaint is that the outermost hulls don't seem particularly attached to the supporting wing bits.

[delta-7]

it's been far too long since ive made a new ship. well guess what? i still haven't! (actually, i started 2, but they got deleted in an accident). however, i got bored as hell one day and decided to make a flack boat. i used the existing katana class destroyer hull for it, but DAAAYYMM, it's weapons aren't too OP, but they look cool as hell when firing. uses horse monster weapon packs and shiny sprites, both of which come with the repack i believe. seriously, give it a spin and tell me what you think. also, it fucks up swarms of tiny fighters pretty well.

[-Desert-]

Fancy!

NINJA-EDIT: Wait, wait, what the heck:

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Those don't belong there...

No I'm not going to fix it. I'm not important enough and too lazy.

[delta-7]

hmmm... that's weird... i thought all the horse monster stuff came with the repack XP

[-Desert-]

You're getting it wrong. Those sprites do not belong there. The Arc one obviously belongs in the Arc_weapons folder. I suggest you save your ships and sprites from outside the repack somewhere and then download the repack. Again, those two sprites are not supposed to be in that folder.

I am being a nitpick, I know, but this is not supposed to happen.

[Doogie12]

The Arc one belongs there, for some reason. It's there for me too.
As for the other one, I have never seen it before and have no clue where it belongs.

[-Desert-]

Okaaay... It's not in there with me, I might have an older version...

[delta-7]

ok, well... i think in the latest sprite layout it should be there, so maybe just copy and paste it into there? won't do any harm in doing so and will fix a number of ships that use it. also, i have a number of new ships on the way. so far a heavy cruiser, a light cruiser, a frigate and 3 strike craft. all of them are unique and im trying out a new building style.

[delta-7]

ok, im actually considering entering DGW with the delta coalition. ive already balance tested my ships against various DGW fleets.

anyways... the strike craft are pretty fun to play with. they don't do much damage so they shouldn't un balance gameplay too much. the light cruiser and frigates are not dedicated combat ships (and lack shields), so they aren't a major threat. the heavy cruiser is a major player in any battle in numbers greater than 1. it's deadly to smaller ships. the desolation class is powerful to smaller ships and easily kills destroyers, but still is taken down by a gale class battleship, though it puts up one hell of a fight.

[Lukasmah]

I hope the bubbleshield in the first picture is just a section and not a bubbleshield module. We use the fighterbay release in DGW, so you won't be able to enter if you use the shield module.

[delta-7]

yes, it's just a section. same with the desolation. it works pretty well, doesn't look as groovy as the bubble shield release's module, but is compatible with fighterbay and still adds much needed durability to my larger ships in a high tech, delta coalition style way.

[Lukasmah]

As for the ships themselves, the really are nothing special. Torrent is absolutely horrendous when it comes to sectionwork, but the rest are kinda fine (although still pretty bland and with some flaws). Some ships suffer from section overlap, though. Also, your ships lack colour and depthing, and the style is inconsistent - it should be obvious which faction a ship belongs to, and with your inconsistent style, that is not the case.

[delta-7]

the strike craft are zoomed in about 30 times. literally, the things are so small that not only is it nearly impossible to get them correctly (because putting the sprites at like 0.1 normal scale throws it off a lot), but it's small enough that you can't really notice anyways.

[Lukasmah]

In that case you should probably use the fighterbay module instead of tiny ships.

[delta-7]

yes, yes i could. however:
1. fighters act as projectiles, not ships. this limits what i can do with their AI, base stats, armor, shape, size and weapons.
2. they are intercepted by PD instead of normal weapons, and that can be a major difference in some cases (point beams for example).
3. it's lots of fun to have strikecraft capable of dogfighting other strike craft. trust me on that one.