Well the Overlord is supposed to be your "sector superiority" capital ship. It pretty much can handle anything except heavy capital ship presence and planet bombing. It has a front-mounted Mass Energy Beam array, it can fire up to 24 Slicer Plasmids per volley from the beak apertures, it has vicious side-mounted point defense plasma guns for them pesky figters and bombers, and of course, it has a large complement of fighter and bomber drones (balanced as not to be overpowered with such numbers). So it can outdamage the battleship, but it does not have the same staying power. But its greatest value lies in the fact that it can effectively police the large gravity wells in the Last Stand, since its fighter drones, like all fighters, move much more quickly than regular ships.

Mind telling us your evil plans on ship designs for the Remnants and Hegemony?

I'd tell you, but I don't have them yet. I mean, I have some outlines and standouts like the Remnant's Fire Ship or the Hegemony's Protector, but most of them haven't been worked out yet. I still have the Episode I to finish.

If he told you that, he would have to kill you.

Yeah, and if he kills me, I can't play his mod.  So I can wait until Episodes 2 and 3.  Or at least until when he starts working on them.

By the way ManSh00ter, if you want some ideas for the Remnants, check out the Zuul from the Born of Blood expansion for Sword of the Stars.  I can guarantee their ships are even worse kludges than the Reavers from Firefly/Serenity.

Design-wise, I do have all three factions pegged down, its all a matter of individual ship designs now. The Remnant, for example should look like they are cheap and mass-produced. So there will be no frills, no curvy designs, just slabs of metal armor plating, hull wiring and habitation bulkheads slapped together. But on the other hand they also need to follow some sort of practical but aesthetic design scheme. If you look at WWII naval ships, especially US destroyers you will know what I mean. They were built all business-like, but they weren't exactly floating tubs either. There is a kind of overall elegance to them. That's what I will be aiming for with the Remnant designs.

And no, they won't look like naval ships in space.

Cool.

Hegemony are going to look sweet then, in a "It's a freaking beautiful ass-kicking warship" kind of way.

Something like that.

The Overlord is finally done, and to comemorate the birth of the second Xin capital ship, here is a bit of a wallpaper-ish art I slapped together this afternoon. Hope you like it! And if you do, spread the word. This mod needs a bit of advertizing.

Tomorrow I'll rig it up for the game and hopefully have some nifty action shots by Sunday!

Pretty

Awesome work ManShooter

funny... the overlord and the carrier look supiciously similar

honestly take a gander at some Halo ships(NO i am not hijacking this thread) They have that whole "can of whoop ass" look to them, yet they share some elegance

That is probably because the Overlord *is* the carrier...

Mr_Blunt3d, I already took a look at Halo ships at the beginning of this mod's development. To be honest, I have mixed feelings about the designs... I love the Covenant shapes, though I prefer to keep my ships as original as possible. On the other hand, the UNSC ships look to me like a complete lack of imagination. Blocky design is one thing, but one look at EvE's Caldari designs shows you how far you can go with it...

Srsly, MOAR PICS!

Well yeah, there are some examples of... explosions waiting to happen, but overall their design seems pretty good to me. Wathcing Halo Wars trailers I continue to be amazed at how good the Covenant ships look and how... well, bland and run-of-the-mill the UNSC ships feel. But I'll stop bashing other people's work... I still have to show what *I* can do, words are cheap.

ohhhh, i thaught that the first pic was the carrier and i just couldnt remember the name, and the overlord is the siege class or somthing, but the shiege  class is not done yet okay okay im dumb...

When you see the Ravager (siege class), you won't make that mistake again.

Speaking of which, how does the slow-firing beam-of-death sound? I am working on the siege capital right now, and in adition to the usual array of plasma weapons, I would like to give it a sort of a tactical ability which costs power (anti-matter will be replaced with more generic "power" and credits with "supplies" - Xin have no use for money, for example) and thus can be fired only a certain amount of times, but is powerful enough to, for example, rip a minor ship in half. It could be used against ships, but its primary purpose would be to soften up big, tough targets. Like starbases. Did I mention it would be long-range as well?

One of my fondest memories in RTS gaming was the absolute panic I felt when I realised sneaky orcs managed to haul a catapult or two close to my village in the original Warcraft. That thing made your knights go positively splat... I'd like to recreate the feeling with the Ravager... sort of "ohshit, its a Ravager, getit getit getit before it comes too close!"

Sort of a energy-lance version of a trebuchet?

... hey, that's an idea, how bout making it a channelbeablebelbe(sp) ability? back to the eve references, basically entering siege mode.

Minus the ultra-tough mode, methinks. Perhaps buffing out damage considerably, but making the ship extremely slow. While it won't be nearly as tough as a battleship, it will be tougher than your average capital ship... buffing that might make it very difficult to counter.

But yeah, no self-respecting RTS or game with RTS elements can do without its own version of a trebuchet.

isnt the ravager the name of the cruiser up there on the vid... thing? 

Ooops, nice catch there. I really have to put together the name list...

where do all these empires(races) rank on the timeline. could u make a timeline of their empires rise and falls. era's, war dates and other great things like that, even throw in a few other races in the timeline who have long since been extinct. just so we can get a feel for how these races came to be who they are now in the game.

Actually, that's a pretty good idea. I'll definitely include this when the official site goes live.

Yeah, I meant more in the sense of the general "mode switch" ability some EVE caps have. In this case you'd probably want range + damage rather than damage + tank.

Wait untill you see it - then you'll see why it took so long to build.

I bet they say that all the time in Italy too.

Well, they find some lame excuse anyway *cough*