Discovery Bridges [Feedback Thread]

[FallenKnight]

I was working on the Trader's cockpit but on very slow rates due to exams. Here is the nearly ready "Civilian" cockpit, featuring the "Train" as visible part (but not colored yellow yet). I've used civilian colors for the interior painting and House specific "news/mission logs" for the monitors ( these are found in each House bars). All other cockpits will be using different colors and monitor images.

- Like you will notice - the bridge and the visible part are both been moved on the right side. This is representing your "seat" on the left part of the cockpit and also giving a better view. I think this would be better for versatility sake in comparison with the military bridges which are all "centered" and wide.
- Also the size of the monitors and the interface around (even the keyboard below the monitors) are giving the feeling this cockpit is for a smaller ship - while in the military bridges they were quite smaller to represent a sizable vessel.

The slight issue with those would be the answer on the question "Which transports are going to get such cockpit?". I gave a lot of thought about that and I came to the conclusion all transports with small models would have no problem to remain with their freighter cockpits (like from 800 - 3200 cargo ). While all transports with above 3500 are bigger and should feature a bigger cockpit, similar to a bridge.
*Exceptions are the Transport (gull line) and the Train (civilian line) which are cheaper and very suitable for such cockpit. Also new players that start trading will be happy to see these until they get to the "real" transports.

I've made a list of all trading vessels that will get such bridges:
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Civilians 7 ships: (civilian colors)
-Firefly, Heavy Tanker, Transport (Large Transport), Train (Advanced Train, Large Train)
*Gulls using same cockpit / *Trains using same cockpit
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Liners 2 ships: (liners colors)
-Prison/Luxury Liners (same cockpit with different monitors)
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Generic 2 ships: (border world colors)
-Border Worlds Transport, Zoner Whale
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Unlawful 4 ships: (LR/M ship textures)
-Pirate Transport, Pirate Train, Salvager, Pilgrim Liner
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Liberty 2 ships: (lib cockpit colors)
-Heavy Transport, Super Transport
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Bretonia 3 ships: (bret cockpit colors)
-Heavy Transport, Train, Bret Liner
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Kusari 2 ships: (ku cockpit colors)
-Heavy Transport, Train
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Rheinland 3 ships: (rh cockpit colors)
-Heavy Transport, Train, ALG Transport
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Possible additions
- Kujira(civilian)
- Corsair Train
- Shishapangma (IMG)
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Total: 25

All cockpit templates for these ships are ready. What remains is to prepare the ship visible parts and pack them up. If you have ideas about other transports that should get such bridge feel free to share them here.

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