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    cube's.......meh....
    Can we stop saying useless criticism about cubes as a community? Some people like the Borg and have fun messing around with cubes. There isn't anything wrong with that and theres nothing wrong with you not liking it but if you dont like it why are you on the forum about the Borg cube? Leave Vakna to have fun with cubes in peace please.
     
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    Can we stop saying useless criticism about cubes as a community? Some people like the Borg and have fun messing around with cubes. There isn't anything wrong with that and theres nothing wrong with you not liking it but if you dont like it why are you on the forum about the Borg cube? Leave Vakna to have fun with cubes in peace please.

    peace.......meh....
     

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    Shove off squirrel. Can't you see this tree is taken?

    No need to be a douch because you don't like cubes. These are decorated at least.
     
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    Some people just like to try and push their own personal opinions onto the world as a whole, probably a Jehovah's Witness IRL. ^^

    In all seriousness though, I find it highly amusing that people take time out of their day just to come in and tell me they don't like what I'm doing. Okay, good for you? Not going to affect me in the slightest. Instead of coming into a Borg themed thread and complaining about the shape of a structure (the pinnacle of irony I might add), why not go read something you actually enjoy?

    Anyway, small status update; I'm swamped as hell at work at the moment, so progress on my next ship is going slow, it's a pretty big build which is also a contributor. Currently working on the internal hangar detailing for my Borg hiveship, complete with massive docking spires and pilot walkways. Also trying to perfect the design of my "Light Fighter" class ship that will be used with the carrier.

    The ship currently in progress will be designed to be flown by up to four players, 4 seperate command rooms with different weapons computers. The front facing main one used by the main core pilot, and 3 others facing to the sides and rear (so they will actually fire in those directions) that can be manned by 3 other players, or AI controlled.

    It's a pretty fun build!
     
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    You go man. I know you've gotten flak about the shape of your structures before and I am working on cube stuff too. Your work is lovely keep it up.
     
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    Just cause, I wanted to say that I think your cubes are works of art, and are incredibly cool looking, especially the Immortal? class one. They all posses a sleek and complex design, an impressive feat for a bunch of cubes. Geometry is the BEST!!
     
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    Some people just like to try and push their own personal opinions onto the world as a whole, probably a Jehovah's Witness IRL. ^^

    In all seriousness though, I find it highly amusing that people take time out of their day just to come in and tell me they don't like what I'm doing. Okay, good for you? Not going to affect me in the slightest. Instead of coming into a Borg themed thread and complaining about the shape of a structure (the pinnacle of irony I might add), why not go read something you actually enjoy?
    Honestly, is it possible NOT to like what you are doing here in the slightest. Although, two things... are you cubes solid, and are there any fighter bays?

    I would love to see you modify a pirate station someday when you can catalog stations.
     
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    Few interesting stats so far for my WIP hiveship;

    Mass: 57.2k
    Shields: 4.9 million
    Power Storage: 10.3 million (mostly due to me using tanks as decorative blocks)
    Power Regen: 1.7 million e/sec
    Current Price: 235 million credits

    I'm slightly worried about the price, since my structure is probably about 20% complete so far, without any weapons, fighters, or turrets attached. I know the credit cap is about 2 billion yes? So if it goes above that obviously it will be impossible to purchase. I think most of the cost is coming from my insistence on using hardened hull blocks everywhere, could probably cut the price a lot using normal ones, but that would reduce the ships power, which I'm not fond of!

    Anyway, thought you guys might find those stats interesting, considering the current completion percentage! :)
     
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    Hardened hull doesn't make enough of a difference in battle for it to be worth using, especially in a faction ship :)
     
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    Well there's no chance I'm putting regular hull on the outer layers, but if the price becomes impossible to buy I'll just have to replace some of the inner decorative hull blocks with regular ones. Have to say though it'll be a job just breaking through this mammoth's shields, 5 mill capacity already and not even close to finished, I'd estimate it'll have at least 5x that in the end.
     
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    Another WIP screenshot, the outside entrance to the carriers internal hangar, you can just about make out one of the docking spires inside. Each spire has 20 docking hardpoints, and there are 4 of them in total, allowing the internal bay to hold up to 80 Light Fighter type vessels. Not sure about the white rim though, may revisit colour scheme later. :)

     
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    Well, since you aren't doing canon borg, you can do whatever you want. The white rim on the black hull would be ideal for visual location of the bay for the fighters.
     
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    weren't the borg getting beat by spices 8472 quite badly i believe until the USS voyager came to assist
     
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    WIP screenshot - view of the internal hangar from the main entrance, very close to finishing it, then i'll be moving onto hull design and weapons systems. Ship build is ~60% complete as of now.

     
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    I'd like to share a couple images of the outer hull design in progress, just to give people an idea of what it'll look like. For this carrier ship I'm trying to recreate the look of the Borg Tactical Cube's hull armour plates, as well my own other additions. The flat black areas on covered in armour will eventually have neatly fitting turrets on them, or other Borg style greebly bits.

    Here is the tactical cube's armour style I'm recreating.


    The front/back side hull section armour.


    And the back side, in the shade.


    Let me know what you think! :)
     
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    It needs green lights near the corners. At least, I think those are supposed to be there. Ive never seen a star trek so I dont know.
     

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    Since the passing of Roddenberry, canon is anything that CBS or Paramount decide is canon, . Thats why the JJ-verse is considered canon, just a alternate timeline, parallel to the prime universe. STO is canon.
    I don't think CBS said that it's canon... Just saying. :p

    I'd like to share a couple images of the outer hull design in progress, just to give people an idea of what it'll look like. For this carrier ship I'm trying to recreate the look of the Borg Tactical Cube's hull armour plates, as well my own other additions. The flat black areas on covered in armour will eventually have neatly fitting turrets on them, or other Borg style greebly bits.

    Here is the tactical cube's armour style I'm recreating.


    The front/back side hull section armour.


    And the back side, in the shade.


    Let me know what you think! :)
    Needs a lot more greebling in the black parts under the gray armor. I mean.. a LOT.
     
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    Yeah there is still a lot of greebling to do, as well as indenting turret sockets and some all around tidying up. Just wanted to give a little preview of what the hull design is based on - and I do say based, because there will be turrets (not giant obnoxious ones sticking out though) and other stuff as well as the armour, that you wouldn't see on a typical Borg vessel, but they need to be added for the ship to actually function in the game.

    Also, as a general random update - the AI controlled broadside and rear guns that I had planned will no longer happen, entirely due to me still being somewhat of a Starmade newbie and not knowing you can only have one AI Bobby per ship, and also that it deactivates as soon as you enter the core. The broadsides can still be manned by other players though as well as the pilot flying and operating the main front guns, but the control rooms for them are in a really inconvenient and annoying set up/place because I'd intended them to be AI focused.

    The broadside weapons control points will be rebuilt all around the central core area in the Mark II refit, I'm not going to do it for the MKI because I plan to strip out all of the weapons and rebuild the systems when the new patch hits, so it can wait till then, it's just going to be a little annoying to fly as a multiplayer ship until that time, but I'd rather move on with the build and get it finished than scrap a lot of work and rebuild the weapons systems from the ground up now.

    But hey, I'm having tons of fun building this one, going slow because I'm really busy at work right now, but it'll get done soonish (hopefully this week!), and I'm sure it's gonna look super cool once it's entirely done! :) Thanks for all the likes, feedback and support <3
     

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    Are you still thinking of doing a Borg based faction? I know there was one awhile ago, but I haven't seen any activity from them since the new forums. It would be interesting if you ended up on the same server as Starfleet :P