i made the nose that long to fit into the rapier hitbox ( yes - i scaled the ship into the hitbox - and not the other way round )
now - the ship isn t perfect for sure... but the current kadesh HF is almost not used by anyone. - there are probably as many players seriously flying the kadesh HF as there are players flying the kith somtaav HF ( which is less than 0.5% of the playerbase )
such a ship won t be the bomb - it ll be as inefficient as the current kadesh HF ( being larger than the eagle and a lot worse equipped )
this is mostly for the looks. this ship looks more FLish than the white blob that the current kadesh HF is ( sorry if someone likes it ... matter of fact, i do like the homeworld kadesh ships, they just don t fit into FL )
@hawkings:
i don t really see a striking similarity except the long front section. - the ku-bomber is smoother and roundish - its build upwards and in a waveform.
Take a few engines off? Either the ones in the middle or one off each wing. Clipping the nose a little would be good as well, if possible.
I don't really see the use in making it a Zoner-exclusive ship... they're not in much combat, (except recently, ingame) and they've already got enough ship choice to deal with it.
It looks FL-ish, so, mission accomplished I guess, and it's better than the Homeworld ships... will you be doing the others as well? ( As in, please do the others as well...)
no, not really massivly - the good thing about the homeworld ships is that i can "pick" them one by one, cause they don t really represent a full line of factionized ships anymore. - so .. the freighter / LF of the kadesh line doesn t really need to be the very same style - they re pure civilian ships and can look totally different, which i do like.
a shipline of similar ships is good for military ships. - so, dunno... if i got an idea for the others ones - maybe. but we re not really doing the ship-modelling anymore atm. - i sent that one to igiss cause it can easily be replaced without any rebalancing - and cause it is better than the current one ( which isn t a big thing to achive )
in general - zoners have more than a full line of capital warships ... but no fighter. - but its totally unnecessary to give them a fighter, cause they can basicly buy any fighter they like anyway.
This and some of your other fighters should be implemented.
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