Dan' Stargate ships Emporium

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I'll do that next week, problably need some cables or whatever. Anyway last night I did a thing

New and Improved shape, more non symmetrical, less wide, more planned and less improvised, still 650 metres long


Place your bets on wheter or not i flip and just abandon the old one even when I get the old harddrive hooked up. I give it 50/50 right now.
Tbf the old one is done, just needs some annoying and boring work done on it so yeah whatever

 

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Starting fresh on a new and in certain areas improved Aurora class has been nice, if at times depressing for obvious reasons. But I've read up on how to salvage the old files so I'll get on that asap, I would've done it today but apperently the shops are all closed and I have work tommorrow so yeah oopsie. With any luck the old drive hasn't been corrupted by the (un)timely demise of my old PC and I'll get back on my very slow work

Anyway here's a picture

As you can see over the past days I've put some brown bits on it





Oh and I've done the core systems and all that, but I had to remove the missiles because I accidentally made them too powerhungry and also they just fired from some random place below the hull.

 

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Ordered the thing I need to get the old shit of the harddrive should get here by atleast friday,. Been fucking around meanwhile and as you can see I decided to add more brown bits, and some other things





Here's the side profile, and as you can see it is horribly unsymmetrical no matter which way you turn it. If i ever find whomever it was that actually designed it... I might kiss them, it is very sexy



This time around, the bridge actually serves a purpose at the view isn't obstructed by the fore of the ship(barely). I also added 5 metres in length to the ship so it's now 655 metres long.
And for those who seem to have forgot, I will release the ships onto the dock when they are ready, the problem is that "when they are ready" is very subjective

 

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I've made some main weapon platforms, however they don't fire at the selected target which is weird but that's probably just a bug.
Not 100% sure about the look but it's fine for now.


Might make them 1-2 blocks shorter in the future

 

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The future is now!

You maybe can't tell, but I made the main turrets 2 blocks shorter


I've also added a sensor thing to the fore, and for some reason I made them into a turret... so like if you need something scanned just switch into it I guess.
And I added more brown bits

 

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I've made some changes to the exterior, even removed some brown bits, but also added more brown bits in other places. Mostly just keeping busy untill I can get the old designs

Shield strength: 125 000 250 (probably a bit overkill, might kick it down to 75 000 000)

The new measurements:
Length: 655 metres (the sub-space sensors extend longer starmade just doesn't count it, so probably closer to 660-665 metres)
Width: 255 metres
Height: 95 metres



Perhaps most striking I've done some work on the aft section's brown bits and then some


The fore section also got some minor changes to it, but most importantly I'm much happier with how the engines look in the newer design.
I feel this is much closer to teh source material, not only the drives themselves but the overall shape of the aft tower and wing-structure.




As is quite clear in the side profile, I feel the aft section is much better looking especially since the "wing-structure" is off-centre from the rest of the ship


Anyway, probably won't post more progress or updates untill I get the shit from the old harddrive

 

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Fucking hell do they have to go into the various mines and mine the metals required to manufacture the thing, it's been 9 days?
Did I somehow miss the memes of the suez canal being blocked by some other ship or are they just fucking slow lmao??


Anyway, I redesigned the bulb thing, it looks a bit more accurate now. I also added some more hull details to procrastinate wedging the ship.

 

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While we wait for the hardrive dock to arrive, I figured I should be dumb and finally start work on a city ship




As you can see, it'll be huge. But far more importantly, it will be a nightmare to make because of the shape and placement of the districts and whatever. Just the central platform is currently around 500x500 +-100 metres(funky shape)

Might be worth making the arm districts into docks so I only have to make 2-3 instead of almost having to make each one individually. But again, because of the silly shapes that might actually be more of a headache.






Okay, got the largest and most silly shape worked out; it's now 371x357 metres and fairly centred on the core which will then obviously be the central spire.



The asymmetrical arm-float-engine things are still going to make this the single most unbearable design I will(hopefully) ever do.

Can we also get some more funky shapes in the build helper? like this would've been 100x easier if there were triangle, pentagon, hexagon and heptagon shapes for the build helper tool. And why stop there, go nuts! Get all the x-gon shapes in there while you're at it; but please do the triangle first, thank you.

 

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After complaininng about how slow the thing was to get here it seems I manifested it to arrive earlier today. The side-by-side comparison is weird, but I think I preffer the new design, which means the old one is done. But it will probably have to be overhauled to the newer updates.
Why is it so wide





The hive ship is still fucking huge tho

 

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There we are, I think it's all wedged up but its hard to tell because of the asymmetrical hull.