New pirates shipset

trooper · #1 February 13th, 2003, 08:12 PM

I don't know if I have a pirate leader mind indeed... I like clear situations and stable, well-organized empires... just the opposite of pirate organizations in fact.

BTW, have someone ever done any pirate dedicated shipset ? I'm thinking about my next shipset, and I'm aiming in that direction, even if pirate life seems not to be my cup of thea. That's a work I dedicate in advance to Suicide Junkie and the great work he has produced for P&N mod.

I've got a clear idea of what kind of look I would like for my ships :

source : http://www.shipschematics.net

Perhaps it will remind to some japanese mangas fans an artist called Leiji Matsumoto...

Maybe I'm totally wrong in my idea to draw such a shipset, because pirates don't build their own ships, if I well understood the philosophy ?

jimbob · #2 February 14th, 2003, 12:28 AM

Hey Trooper,

Nice ship, I'd love to see an entire ship-set!

Also, I'd love to see a ship-set for Nomadic races... oh, and if the pirate thing isn't your cup o' tea, try joining the Nomads! Sure, we don't have "civilian cloaking" ability, but we've the ability to churn out a gob of resources (from remote mining) and our maintenance costs just can't be beat! If you're playing against humans, you can always trade near-zero maint. ships and resource gatherers in exchange for some colony ships (mind you, if you're playing the pirates, you should be boarding colony ships and taking them over in the early game = colonies)

cheers

trooper · #3 February 14th, 2003, 04:16 PM

It's gonna take a little time, I'm trying to figure out how Bryce works...

The first steps are slow but... encouraging.

Suicide Junkie · #4 February 14th, 2003, 07:31 PM

Hey, you know, I think the imagemod could use a pirate flag component

trooper · #5 February 18th, 2003, 12:25 AM

Here is my first pirate ship (and my first spaceship designed with Bryce), let's call it a... cruiser. I think it's the beginning of a great shipset !

Has anybody ever created a race call simply "pirate" ?

Nodachi · #6 February 18th, 2003, 12:43 AM

Trooper, that's great! It's like Starblazers meets P&N!

This looks like it'll be a good set.

jimbob · #7 February 20th, 2003, 01:34 AM

Trooper:

Nice ships, I'm looking forward to collecting the whole set!

Just one thing I'm wondering, is it easy to add windows (little points of lights/small lit squares) in Bryce? It would probably give the ships the Star Trek look... and probably be way easier than going for lots of texture as in Star Wars models.