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WoodMan -> RE: Diverse Worlds v18 - Naxxilian/Human (2/17/2011 2:36:37 PM)
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Well the pirate issue is something I was going to ask advice on. Here is how it works, pirate factions are assigned a escort, frigate, destroyer and cruiser ship I think. They always use the same ones but they are chosen randomly from the main factions ship graphics and the minor ship set graphics. The Minor sets ships are also found lying abandoned around the map. So the minor ships serve two purposes, abandoned wrecks (not in large debris fields, just solo ships) and pirates. I find it very rare that you find random small ships lying around, just the big ships, so its perfectly safe to make all the smaller ships from the minor sets look like pirate vessels. The question is should the large ship also look like a pirate vessel, because the pirates hardly ever build them, and you do find them lying around the galaxy abandoned. At the moment I've decided to make all three military ships in the minor sets the same theme as each other, but you won't always see pirates using them and you might find them laying abandoned (however, sometimes these are pirate traps anyway).
As for the colony ships in the minor sets, pirates never build them, so I'll just use this as an oppurtunity to make one off ships of their own style. You find them laying around the galaxy, presumably left over from the evacuation when the Shakturi first invaded in the distant past.
As for Atuuk, the only idea I have at the moment is a bit weird. You know those pod racers in star wars that have the engines flying out in front pulling the main craft along on cables, well I might try that, but don't know if I can do it yet as I haven't tried. For bigger ships I don't know, I'm thinking a really large engine perhaps, with a little cockpit [:D]
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