New WIP

[Linkfan23]

I have been messing around with different styles and I found one that I think look neat. In the picture I have the (over)armed version and the unarmed version. If you have any critisism, suggestions, or ideas on how to arm this ship feel free to contribute.
Armed .shp file Here
UnArmed BluePrint file Here

[maarten]

Looks good, maybe a bit to dark but really sturdy and heavy.
armament is good but I would remove the flaks at the rear and mod the pulse guns down. Otherwise they are really nice. The shock beamer at the front might be fun if it had a smaller arc and higher power then a stock one, like some sort of heavy cannon. All others would be like anti-fighter or something.

EDIT: REMOVE the sidewinders and power up pulse guns.

[Slayer0019]

The sidewinders are exactly where missile bays would fit, but that's just me. I don't have a lot of experience with sidewinders.
Also, there is no such thing as overarming, as long as it ends up doing reasonable DPS. An ungodly hailstorm of pulse guns is OK if each bullet only does .5 damage.

[Master Chief]

Also, there is no such thing as overarming, as long as it ends up doing reasonable DPS. An ungodly hailstorm of pulse guns is OK if each bullet only does .5 damage.

I really beg to differ. Technically, yes, I presume from your point of view the balancing of the ship to a stockish standard should be ranked above visual appeal, no matter how crappish the end result would look like with a complete fuckload of pulse guns on it. I do not think we place 100 pulse guns with 0.5 dps just to replicate the effect of, let's say, 2 pulse guns with 25 dps each.

There is such a thing as overarming. It's not, as Slayer attempts to put it, balancing issues. Even then, different people have different standards of balancing - I could have a 10k dmg railgun for a patrol craft in a fleet where HP runs up into the hundreds of thousands, and that would still be perfectly justified. Overarming is simply chucking a load of weapons on the ship when only a few modded ones are needed, which should be more appropriately called weapon spam.

That all being said, pretty neat work you have there Linkfan. I particularly like your use of shading to indicate depth and the overall section usage. It looks a little on the pudgy and round side though, and it could do with a little less weapons, IMO.

[Slayer0019]

I think you took my point to a bit of an extreme, but at least you know what I'm saying. I was just pointing out that this ship is in no way overarmed.

[Master Chief]

I think you took my point to a bit of an extreme, but at least you know what I'm saying. I was just pointing out that this ship is in no way overarmed.

Fair, perfectly fair, but I shall still stand by my viewpoint.

[Linkfan23]

Updated the .shp file adding suggestions