a revised barge

[Sprolf]

Speaking as the resident Barge enthusiast...

This might be passable without the biodome.
The dome made me go like this:




The structure perched needlessly upon the side of this monstrous vessel, like a loathsome shoggoth crouching upon the peak of a roof in search of prey to devour in its unspeakable way, made me recoil instantly in the most utter and intense horror I have ever had the misfortune to experience. After some time of breathing deeply and attempting to bleach my mind with actual bleach administered through my ears, I brought myself to chance another glance at this eldritch monstrosity again, and it elicited the same reaction, no less diminished in severity as the first time. I then opted to block all pictures from your Photobucket album, retire to my overstuffed chair for some time, taking a gin and tonic, before replying to this thread to tell you just how unspeakably, abjectly, grotesquely awful that biodome looks.



It also isn't needed.
Zuk is also right. There's way too many biodomes.

Also, you've apparently never flown the barge. It's very hard.
With that cyclopean beast hanging off the side like an atrophied Siamese twin, this ship would be nigh-unpilotable.




As far as critique goes,
Factories: Awesome looking, nice job.
Biodome: See above. (No. Just no.)
Cargo pods: See Dusty's post, they don't really make sense.
Mooring post: Needs to go further back, like in the old model.
Other: There's actually an internal hangar bay on the Barge, right above just aft of the mooring post. That would be essential to have in a ship this big. Also, I'd like to see the Armoured Transport landing platform included in this model. That made a lot of sense, looked cool, and was useful in-RP.

Overall: This barge is WAY too sleek. It should be an ugly, industrial behemoth of a ship, not a streamlined luxury resort that looks like a Whale bred with some of your newer ships and then gave the baby to someone with a fetish for the grotesquely fat. More industrial and blocky. The barge needs to be more like a flying city/factory.

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