Civilian Gunship / Xeno Gunship proposal

[Kuze]

Nope, it is not. The ship is not that big to have such a tiny bridge.

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[Toaster]

I feel like the cockpit is an easy fix of just raising it up a bit.

Like so, perhaps.

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Olivia Sable

[Kuze]

Indeed, i was thinking about that solution. Raising the glass parts just above the hull element parts.

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[Miaou]

Capship bridge windows are more or less just soft-scifi things, all the info should be relayed on screens and virtual viewports anyway.

Except most if not all capital ships in both freelancer's universe and our own capitals for Discovery have them. Some of the larger gunboats even have them. As seen;

Here
Also here
Here too but ugly
here but slightly hidden

It's a stylistic choice that Digital Anvil made. You'll notice most of their design is based off of art deco and gothic styles. That means big windows and being able to see things with your eyes to fully grasp the scale of it all.

edit: I forgot THIS bad boy as an example of a gunboat with a command deck window thing for a vanilla example.

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Characters & Stories

[Solo Wing Sagume]

And in a case of electronical warfare when some systems fall out you will do what, bleed out in your own designed grave?

Yes surely you can have your fancy tech, but always good to have your conventional methods if possible.

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[Kuze]

Okey, so the current one is no go...but let's put aside the cockpit for a moment. Is the ship yay or nay? That is why I made this topic, to see if you guys would like to see this shippie ingame or not ?.

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[Lemon]

Windows certainly are not realistic
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheExpanse/comm...o_windows/

But it's a choice Freelancer built around sci-fi tropes and basic stereotype uses, ships should fit it imo.

Doesn't have to be WW2 planes (Hello Asco) but there should be a bridge.

And I don't get why if that's the argument why still have small glass one anyways

[Lemon]

Okey, so the current one is no go...but let's put aside the cockpit for a moment. Is the ship yay or nay? That is why I made this topic, to see if you guys would like to see this shippie ingame or not ?.

If the bridge is as suggested, as it looks like already it is ? Hell yeah, cool ship! Might actuall be a cruiser or even bigger

[Kauket]

Personally it has a cruiser vibe to the shape itself rather than gb (size of hardpoints, wing width etc). I find it very adorable, love how the engines arent feeble like most GBs.

but yeah my personal opinion is my gripe with the cockpit.

I'd personally give an 'arch bridge' and turn the old cockpit into piping or something. (ok not that thick in the mspainted lines, but you get the gist)



Again, bare in mind, just a personal opinion.

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[TheSauron]

Okey, so the current one is no go...but let's put aside the cockpit for a moment. Is the ship yay or nay? That is why I made this topic, to see if you guys would like to see this shippie ingame or not ?.

Cockpit woes aside, the design is great. But I'm also inclined to agree with Kauket, the ship gives off some strong cruiser vibes. Though a civ cruiser of any sort is probably going to have a much harder time getting into the game relative to a gunboat.

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