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Bellum Eternus
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Posted - 2009.09.17 16:30:00 -
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How hard is it? How hard is it to make space ships that people ENJOY LOOKING AT?
The new faction ship paintjobs:
Armageddon Navy Issue
Megathron Navy Issue
Vindicator
Dominix Navy Issue
Scorpion Navy Issue
Rattlesnake
Typhoon Fleet Issue
The Vindicator and Rattlesnake aren't that bad. The Vindi has that subdued black camo and it works ok. Nothing spectacular that screams 'OMG Expensive Ship!' but it's not horribly ugly either. Same goes for the Rattlesnake. I kind of like the desert tan thing it has going on.
The Navy Mega/Dominix are just... yuck. Baby poop green camo? Really? Why couldn't you just leave the Navy Mega black like it was? Everybody loved it. The more black and the more shiny the new ships are, the better everyone will like them. True story.
The Navy Scorpion- why brown? And why that shade of brown? It muddles the shape of the ship and turns it into a brown blob. The edges of the various substructures get lost in the muddy low contrast color scheme. Make it something high contrast and dramatic, like silver/gloss black tiger stripe camo or something. Is that not 'Caldari' enough? Then how about a navy blue/charcoal grey camo color scheme? Anything but brown.
The Typhoon Fleet Issue- here I think that a very dark brown on black camo pattern with large shapes (exactly what isn't currently on the ship with it's small dense shapes) would work well on the Phoon. Thats if the lights were made a bright orange to offset the darkness of the rest of the shape. Yeah, brown and cylindrical looks like a turd, but the ship is turd shaped, what are you gonna do?
The Armageddon Navy Issue- probably the least worst of all of the new color schemes, but that doesn't make it good just because all the rest suck. I think that a solid gloss black paint job, just like the EOM ships would look spectacular, but in order to set them apart from the EOM NPCs the ship needs to have bright yellow lights instead of blue.
As usual, I'm open to suggestions as far as what everyone else thinks about these new colors and possible different color schemes for the various ships. Come on people, CCP got rid of the Gallente Baby Blue after we complained about it enough. We can get them to change this as well. Show your support!
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Bellum Eternus
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Posted - 2009.09.17 16:49:00 -
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 Originally by: Grek Forto
You really had to make a new thread about it? Instead of posting it in the appropriate feedback thread? Linkage
Yes. Absolutely. That thread will not have anywhere near the viewing traffic of a completely separate thread in General Discussion that is dedicated to this issue.
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Bellum Eternus
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Posted - 2009.09.17 17:03:00 -
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Originally by: Hull Blaster
Has anyone checked the Gallente Navy Comet on sisi? I loved the black/white thing going like on the Navy Megathron, have they changed that to green too?
Seriously though, were the art department on crack they thought up that paint job for the mega? Look at the domi, they were lazy the patten is symmetrical on both sides.
The Comet is still dark grey/white. And the slicer is still medium brownish.
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Posted - 2009.09.17 19:27:00 -
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Originally by: Ranger 1
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Doesn't need to be fluorescent yellow,
Actually, that would be kinda cool on some of them.
It would be like owning a canary yellow muscle car, except, ya know, its my Megathron Navy Issue...
I wouldn't work for the Typhoon Fleet Issue however, as it would look too much like a banana someone had squeezed the guts out of.
For a short amount of time the Mega was a weird sort of burnt orange and charcoal color for a while before it went to TQ. The Kronos is close to being yellow/grey, but it's more of a crummy brass color. Not really gold, not really yellow. I guess it is also heavily dependent on the system's star color as well.
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Posted - 2009.09.18 14:37:00 -
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Back on topic...
Can we have some serious suggestions as to what the color schemes should be?
I think the Navy Mega would look even better if it were gloss black on gloss black, the Dominix would look fine with gloss black/dark flat charcoal grey, I think the Rattlesnake needs to be a higher contrast black/white 'dazzle' style camo color while the Navy Scorp would look good in a dark blue on blue tigerstripe camo.
I think all the Minmatar Fleet ships should get a very dark burnt orange base color (read: super dark brown with an orange tint to it) and then some dark grey/black camo patterns over that.
The Navy Geddon would look great just all black, but barring that, if it were something like 50% gloss black in spots and then 50% bright chrome it would look really good as well.
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