Nice design!

How did you color it? Am I missing something on the design screen?

Oh, I got excited for a minute there. How hard would that be to add? Custom decals, colors & such.

that is badass

BoogieBac:

Before I start officially asking for it, I want to make sure that there won't be a way to approximate what I want in the tools already planned.

What I want is a way to have a library of empty hulls (just a hull plus extras), and then be able to use them as templates for ship designs. If a single design can be "upgraded" to two different designs (not sure how to handle existing ships based on the starting design if this is allowed, but it doesn't matter for this case) that would allow for it. Upgrade the empty hull to the equipped ship that you actually want, never actually building any of the empty hulls. That's the way of doing this I can think of that integrates into the existing UI in the cleanest method.

Anyway, was wondering if anything like that was planned.

Popup: We'll be making a crap-load of these types of designs for the AI (opposed to putting in logic for making cool designs), so I don't see any reason that we couldn't make those accessable to the planet, or have you just press a "Randomize" button that pulls one of these designs up.  Depends on time, i suppose.

P.Pheonix: Yeah, there are a few that kinda do this, but we'll be making very small ones that won'd be more than a nub.  RIght now any items that reorient your peices are big enough to be jewelry on their own.

Hopefully we'll have a few of these in the next beta for you guys to play with.

P.Pheonix: Yeah, there are a few that kinda do this, but we'll be making very small ones that won'd be more than a nub. RIght now any items that reorient your peices are big enough to be jewelry on their own.

Cool! Just what the doctor ordered.

What I want is a way to have a library of empty hulls (just a hull plus extras), and then be able to use them as templates for ship designs.

Seconded, and great to hear that a similar feature will be incorporated.

Oh, and that's a cool lookin ship! I can't wait to get the library up and running so more people can upload and share their creations!

Cheers.

HOWEVER, what we CAN do, is make some small "Reorientation" structures that take a hartpoint that points 'left' and make it point 'Up', or one that points 'Up' and you want to have point "Down". This would give used a bit more creative flexability without totatlly changing the format.

Yes please. I know it's a bit of work but I think the user and dev created ships stand to benefit. There are always a few people who create standout designs and I reckon the more felxibility you give the masses, the more chances there are of creating something very cool.

Hi, I have some suggestions here(some have been send already, but maybe not a bad idea to write them al in the same place) :
...However if there is time before finalisation, I'd like to suggest some additional features for the ship designer. Firstly the red dots... They get mighty crowded sometimes. Can something be done about that? Perhaps a size reduction. Secondly some red dots are misaligned when compared to the opposite side of the ship (I've mentioned this before). Thridly I think the designer would allow some real way out and cool designs if components could not only be resized, but also re-oriented. (ROGERANO)
...One very plain hull for each ship size would also be handy. Plain as in practically a cylinder with a pointy bow and an engine on the stern.(ROGERANO again )
...Oh, I got excited for a minute there. How hard would that be to add? Custom decals, colors & such.(PLANETIDIOT, nice name =P)
...and my own ideas for costumising ships: many premade hulls, they should be more easier to redesign/costumise; I understand the colors are to be chosen by game beginning (how many at the same time? I hope min.3), but it would be nice if we could choose the variants of the same colors(like: white ,gold, black .Witch should be the main color? golden hull for a peaceful-tech oriented race with white+black markings, or a black one for a pirate with white markings and golden guns);
and i would like unique, costumisable symboles/markings for ships,planets,the empire(kingdom or what else), even change the color of energy guns (think of golden ship with silver laser beams and markings ), the players should have the ability to buy/spy/get in war ship designs(hulls etc) from other empires/races for own use.
AND an extra,
i don't want to write ideas again so i write this race concerned here: I would like to have combined(hybrid ) races.Think of humans who prosper is peace with an alien species(like half-elves in fantasy),they could be created at begin,or changed in-game when you have good relations with that race, or you have conquered it, BUT only with one race would this be aviable, so no mish-mash(if i write this good) will happen.
I hope you like the ideas, and you can still use them .

p.s.: (sorry for failures, english is foraign to me, I'm Hungarian )

Firstly the red dots... They get mighty crowded sometimes. Can something be done about that? Perhaps a size reduction.

Well, that was done in the latest beta. And some can be very difficult to spot.

Do you think what i suggested will be possible?

Not being in-beta, I'm curious...

Are these designs PURELY aesthetic and functionless? Or do adding, say, 'wings with missile mounts' increase cost and space? 'cuz I'd sure love the latter. Even a tiny increase in cost for a tiny (decimal) increase in HP from each mounted accessory would be fun. An expensive add-on holding (e.g.) a special sensor pod or external missile pod, which increases the ship's cost and effectiveness but not HP (since it is outside of the armor and main hull), would certainly add variety!

Hmm....
I think Rogerano wanted to recreate the Shadow ship from Babylon 5, no?

Yeah I guess it does, sorta But that wasn't my intent. I was playing the Thalan and so all my designs were supposed to have insectish looks. This is one was meant to look like a spider Trouble is there aren't enough spindly bits in the extras section at the moment. Wonder if it's possible to add custom pieces?