This may seem a rather weird thing for me to talk about, but i have some questions about the Junker Salvager that maybe the community can answer..
For starters, long ago decided it's a Transport, as although it can mount Gunboat guns, it still has a Transport shield and well, has a massive cargo bay.
So, that's pretty much sorted, but what about the actual Design of the ship ?
If you put a junker salvager and the small liberty cruiser side by side, they have roughly the same length, and on the salvager it chared the same Ring's at the front where on the liberty cruiser, the forward gun is mounted. Also, the main center of the ship has the same boxy rectangular dimensions asif litterally a liberty cruiser is inside it.
Likewise, it has Liberty style thruster's.. I am not asking INRP is it made from liberty cruisers, that is a obvious No, but i am wondering, seeingas the dimensions fit perfectly, when the Salvager was being made, was it drawn around the liberty cruiser?
Over and above all, the ship is rather wonderfull, the attention to detail when you look closly is.. outstanding.. Anyways..
The tube infront are the mouth, so to say. The arms in the front grab big pieces of scrap and then it opens the gate infront and "swallows" it whole.
The salvagers size comes from 2 things. Junkers use JUNK, and junk aint that sturdy as professionally made armour plating, so obviously, the 165k armour is playing a small part when it comes to size due to the ammount of scrap needed to get it that sturdy.
The salvager is also meant to salvage huge chunks of scrap, the inforcard states/did state that it is used to salvage parts from big battles. In which the size is just fine in comparison to salvaging etc. battleship parts or cruiser parts.
All in all, the salvager is just meant to stuff as much scrap as possible, sell it, make loads of money while the risk of being shot down is reduced due to its thick armour and heavy weaponry
' Wrote:The tube infront are the mouth, so to say. The arms in the front grab big pieces of scrap and then it opens the gate infront and "swallows" it whole.
The salvagers size comes from 2 things. Junkers use JUNK, and junk aint that sturdy as professionally made armour plating, so obviously, the 165k armour is playing a small part when it comes to size due to the ammount of scrap needed to get it that sturdy.
The salvager is also meant to salvage huge chunks of scrap, the inforcard states/did state that it is used to salvage parts from big battles. In which the size is just fine in comparison to salvaging etc. battleship parts or cruiser parts.
All in all, the salvager is just meant to stuff as much scrap as possible, sell it, make loads of money while the risk of being shot down is reduced due to its thick armour and heavy weaponry
This isant answerd what i asked, i get the RP of it all, just i was asking about the Actual Design of the ship.. design asin the Dev's to made it, did tehy use a liberty cruiser and build everythging else around it, but thanks for replying anyway.
Jinx made the design and it bears close resemblance to many of the zoner ship designs (which he also made).
In-RP, the Junkers build each of these ships as custom vessels, no two salvagers are alike. Chances are they get many of the parts for the salvagers from other craft that are derelict or wrecked. Sure, it's possible that parts of a liberty cruiser were used in some salvagers, if the Junker family that build the ship found a derelict liberty cruiser or parts of one floating in space somewhere.
Any resemblance that you might see from it comes from the fact that it was built from rubbish parts other people don't want and have just dumped in space.
i had the ship based on something i saw - but i really cannot remember anymore. - i think it was somewhat based on something i saw in the EVE online gallery - but modified enough not to resemble it too much.
other than that - this ship is hardly really designed. i started at the front and added stuff - which worked out fine for a junker design. - why it has lib thrusters? - dunno - at that time i wasn t really going into the ini code much - so it has the effects that were chosen rather spontanously.
today though - the ship is what players that are affected by the ship by interacting with it or playing it, make of it. but when it comes to why it looks like it looks - thats just random mostly. - no grand concept, no drawn sketch - just random.