(THE MODEL DUMP)

[Denelo]

This...

Is by far the singularly worst model I've ever had the extreme misfortune of seeing. And that includes the horrific things I came up with last time I tried to model. More importantly, that includes the gunship model.

Seriously, people complain about Legeonation's models. You expect this to fair better? These and the gunship make the Spyglass seem original. It's certainly a million times more fitting in Freelancer than these... things.

Now, you come out and say, without consulting anyone as far as I'm aware except for the LH, that you're going to replace two of our better devs' better models? I'm sorry, but that's the most totally ridiculous thing I've ever heard, particularly considering that the LH is not the only Hackers faction.

Study Freelancer ships. Words can't even begin to describe how badly this thing shatters plausible believability in a world like this. It's so totally out of line with anything else in Discovery - even the Homeworld ships and Huntress, and even the RClaw/Shadow and Slipstream/Penumbra!

Seriously. Model and texture it so it looks remotely like it fits. Less massive blockiness, less ridiculously never-been-used clean terribly plasticy textures (seriously, that's hardly defense, and it fits with nothing in the Freelancer universe), less anime-cyberspace-type nonsense. More hard lines, "sleek" blockiness, sharp edges, Freelancer textures, etc.

Also, while I'm on the subject, what on earth possessed you to make you think you somehow had the right to come in and replace two other developers' models without even asking them permission? Your gunship is bad enough as it is - icanhaz something that's somewhat decent, please? - but other developers - ones who're actually decent - have refrained from messing with it (at least up to this point). Please, please, pay them the same courtesy at the very least.

And maybe pay me the courtesy of ripping my eyeballs out if I have to look at that thing again. Or the transport, for that matter.

I see this thing as the replacement of a perfectly good model with a useless cube.

Also, if you're going to flame me, call this a flame, etc... don't. People actually would be forced into flying this thing (instead of Turkish and Gurjiv's fighters), you know. If you can't take their comments/opinions/irritation, then, quite simply, don't make models. Seriously, if you're going to whine, complain, refuse to improve, and generally be a pest, and if you're going to do all that and replace high-quality models with low-quality ones, then... don't.

That being said, I can't at all see this being accepted. It's very simply put, a bad model.

Finally, the Bayonet, Falchion, and Broadsword...

Yeah, the LH aren't the only Hackers around. And every Hacker - faction member or otherwise - that I, for one, have talked about such things to loves the Bayo. It looks good, and its shape is superb for combat.

If any of the current Hacker models are replaced by these things, or if they get in at all, I think I might well resort exclusively to the Border Worlds line. I simply won't fly them.

Not, as Tycho pointed out, that it'll be a problem for me by the time these could get in anyways.

Edit: Huh. Didn't realize this was so long...