User carrier megaship concept

Wimwamray

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Kia ora,

Here's a concept for a carrier megaship I've spent the last wee while working on in Sketchup. Still very much WIP....

I find the existing carrier megaship a little blocky so figured I'd have a go at making my own, sleeker design.

7eXWcaF.jpg

2gn4BUK.jpg

1nwDlwR.jpg

WCcv3hH.jpg


I can't quite work out what the scale should be but I've got a Cobra alongside to give a basic sense.

TZPiBTT.jpg
 

Tom2

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Looks good.

As for the size and what you could change is that you could go bigger -as megaships in Elite are truly 'mega'- (maybe 20% to 40% bigger) and it could use a few more landing pads.

But so far, good work.
 

GraXXoR

GraXXoR
Can’t swear on these forums but damn! That is a ******g fantastic ship.
It feels huge and industrial/military.
Would love to see something like it in game.
 

Deleted member 115407

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GraXXoR said:
Can’t swear on these forums but damn! That is a ******g fantastic ship.
It feels huge and industrial/military.
Would love to see something like it in game.
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Yeah, it looks intimidating, doesn't it?
 

CentrumSilver

CentrumSilver
Wimwamray said:
Kia ora,

Here's a concept for a carrier megaship I've spent the last wee while working on in Sketchup. Still very much WIP....

I find the existing carrier megaship a little blocky so figured I'd have a go at making my own, sleeker design.

https://i.imgur.com/7eXWcaF.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/2gn4BUK.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/1nwDlwR.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/WCcv3hH.jpg

I can't quite work out what the scale should be but I've got a Cobra alongside to give a basic sense.

https://i.imgur.com/TZPiBTT.jpg
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That middle part rotates, yes?
 

Bunkerkind Anni

Bunkerkind Anni
looks nice, ideed

Did you know that with the rotating section there, that the pitch and jaw thruster are messed up in a way that you need to use the vertical thrusters to yaw ?
(something for Scot manley to explain)

one critizism about the landing bays though:
in ED all hangars slide away from the actual landing pad along the long side.
your pad layout for the large ones doesn't seem to incorporate that baseline that every dockable structure in ED has integrated for obvious reasons.
 

Wimwamray

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Thanks for all the feedback team! Responses to a few questions:

Miepit said:
Looks good. As for the size and what you could change is that you could go bigger -as megaships in Elite are truly 'mega'- (maybe 20% to 40% bigger) and it could use a few more landing pads. But so far, good work.
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Ah yea, I figured as much but I find it hard to judge these things in game.

Bunkerkind Anni said:
looks nice, ideed

Did you know that with the rotating section there, that the pitch and jaw thruster are messed up in a way that you need to use the vertical thrusters to yaw ?
(something for Scot manley to explain)
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Huh, no I had no idea. Although I doubt it's something ED deals with in it's in-game physics.

Bunkerkind Anni said:
one critizism about the landing bays though:
in ED all hangars slide away from the actual landing pad along the long side.
your pad layout for the large ones doesn't seem to incorporate that baseline that every dockable structure in ED has integrated for obvious reasons.
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I don't think that's true for the outposts, they just go straight up and down. In any case I'm not worrying too much about the details with this model. It's very much at concept stage and I wasn't planning on getting those kinds of details right at this stage in case I want to make major changes.
 
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