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Rebellion: Replacing TEC ship models?

By on June 29, 2012 3:00:53 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

mattebubben

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I got Sins Rebellion on preorder and i love the game.

I fell in love with the advent ships with there slick streamlined designes and cool looking ships.

The Vasari Ships are mostly ferocious and dangerous looking with different cool designs.

And then the TEC...

Many of the ships (atleast some of those most usefull) look just plain out ugly and strange.

The Kodiak Heavy Cruiser being a prime example looking like somone putting a tank turret on a pimped out cargo container.

The Hoshiko Robotics Cruiser though also looking kinda strange is more original looking and is also a less"common" ship.

The Javelis LRM Frigate looks kinda akward but is not "too" unthinkable of a design.

The Sova Carrier on the other hand looks like someone just took modern aircraft carrier and made it into a spaceship.


I have nothing against "ugly" ships but atleast make something that makes sense and is orignial dont just spaceify stuff.

I understand that some of the Tec navy ships are supposed to be converted traders but the only ship that looks like it is is the corsev and i actually like that ship design as it looks logical enough for a large trade ship.

I have been looking around on the forums and there are many modders creating beautiful ship models that are 10 times better then anything the TEC currently have.

Would it be possible for somone to make some replacement shipmodels for the tec making the ships more believable and original looking.

As i am new to the Sins series i have not yet learned to do things myself but even if i did im not talanted at texture (model) work and thus think i would not be able to make anything of quality.

Feel free to post if u agree or disagree or if u could help =>.

And also sorry for bad english.

 


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June 29, 2012 3:04:43 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

The Kodiak is main old TEC ship that got a lot of hate for being a "tank in space". The Corsev also was pretty unpopular as it looks nothing like the other ships. Yet to my knowledge no one has yet made anything model just for replacing them.

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June 29, 2012 10:22:17 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

hmm, I'd always thought the TEC models did a pretty good job at getting accross what the TEC fleet is: A bunch of Civilian ships with some armored plating and weapons welded on.

Even their capitalships, with the exception of the Kol, are all converted civilian ships.

 

 

Frankly in my opinion a civilian ship jury rigged to function as a military vessel shouldn't look like a paragon of applied military technology, it shouldn't be graceful, it shouldn't necessarily eve be particularly impressive, but damned if it isn't functional!

 

Well I'm sure many disagree with me, but personally I'd rather have on-theme ships then inexplicably pretty ships.

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June 30, 2012 5:03:37 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

I never asked for the ships to be more gracefull.

And infact i like the thought of some ships being converted trade ships.

But then make them look like it (like the Corsev looks).

My only problem with the TEC is that some of the ships have very uninspired designs (Kodiak,Sova carrier etc).

I would love having more ships with a armed "trade" ship look but atm the only ship that looks like that if u ask me is the corsev and that happends to be 1 of my favorite TEC ship designs.

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July 1, 2012 1:52:16 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Quoting mattebubben,
I would love having more ships with a armed "trade" ship look but atm the only ship that looks like that if u ask me is the corsev and that happends to be 1 of my favorite TEC ship designs.

You're one of its few fans.

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