What about a giant barge ship that produces credits/metal/crystal out of antimatter?

Oh man, I could send you a list of 100 ships! hahaha

A frigate that spreads culture

Cloaking ship!!

Interdictor that both slows ship movement and increase ship jump time

A battleship that increases damage by 5/10/15%, rate of fire by 5/10/15% (two passive abilities)

A mother ship that produces frigates for resources: 4 frigates

A capital ship destroyer (like  a siege frigate but uses a giant laser ability to deal  800 Dmg ... looong cooldown, gotta hit then run!) The big laser is at the back so once it fires it can run away easier.

Seriously I could give so many ideas for you to try out.

Homeworld 2 made a switch to modular parts on mother and capital ships.  set up a cloaking ability for your capitals.

see if you can create a mine ship before entrenchment comes out.  you just need a model for the mine component.

combine ship ability.  I haven't seen this since Homeworld Cataclysm, but it would allow your frigate fleet to adjust depending on the threat or need.  you can have frigates that are capable of forming into different ships, and eventually once you've gotten a sizable frigate line put together and the resources, maybe have frigates of different tyypes form specialized or multipurpose cruisers.  of course these combined ships can undock from each other as well.  forming a capital ship in this way might be stretching things though.

i reckon you should just redo the kodiak completely, i think most will agree that it looks awful! a heavy cruiser should look powerful and sophisticated whereas the kodiak looks like a feckin brick.

1) Possible in my opinion but then you would have to give the ship a very slow or plainly no antimatter regen so that it doesnt abuse of abilit. Or make an ability that gives it a certain amount of antimatter whenbever a ship is destroyed which you can then trade (3 different abilities) for either  medium amount of crystal, crap load of metal, Huge pile of credits!

2) Frigate that spreads culture is not really my thing so if you'll excuse me, Ill pass on that one

3) I can make permanently cloaked vessels, only issue is like everyone noticed that the effect doesnt make the ship transparent! It is just CMOPLETELY IMMUNE TO EVERYTHING but still visible.

4) Doesnt Sins already have that kind of ship?? As Vasari or Advent utility?

5) My command center!!

6) Already in on my mobile factory ships!! (yes it does produce 4 different types of frigates )

7) My sniper cap ship! Possess a one-hit kill attack that has a 60% chance of success of instantly killing any ship! In a large battle, he can get thrown out in a pinch, so he has cloaking and speed boost to do sort of hit and run attacks! Plus his attack is interuptable and has a fairly long charge up

Yeah, for cloaking we'd have to give it a particle effect that is invisible. So basically do what phase cloaking does but make the particle effect completely invisible.

What about an ability that shuts down shields for say 20 seconds. Once the ability is over the shields go back to where they were before.

An ability that turns off engines only?

Is it possible to make a shield ship? Basically it just creates a giant shield around a fleet.

What about mines that don't blow up but do other things. Slow movement, send out ecm pulses, This way you could have ships that drop these mines in battle and they do different things but can be blown up.

Do they have vamp ships in Sins? Steal shields and give it to another ship?

Would it be possible to create a space whale? LOL it's basically a giant space creature that randomly jumpes between planets and eats buildings and ships as it goes. It would be neutral character that doesn't hang around in any particular place for very long. ie. eats a building or couple ships then moves on.

First, you should probably make a template for our ideas.  But seeing as you didn't, I will make my own.  This is a scout that can go with any race.

Name: Volcar C. Scout

Race: Any

Ship Type: Frigate

General model shape: Heavy armor on the front and near the engines, making for a bulky appearance.  There is a fishhead-like nose for the front, with a mostly sleek body frame until the engines(excluding an autocannon or two coming out the sides).  There are 6 engines in a 2x3 manner embedded into the back.

Stats: Very low shields and hull.  Able to cloak itself for a short period of time with moderate antimatter cost(for a scout).  Best against bomber strikecraft.  Weak to all of the faster cruisers and fighter strikecraft.  Very fast, slightly faster than the normal scout.  Probably the best scout to go straight through a pirate base(or some other heavily-occupied territory).

Abilities: Explore, Cloak, and whatever that one ability is called that boosts engine speed.

General cost: Slightly higher than the normal scout's cost.  Perhaps 200C, 50M and 20-30C?

Name: Frui I

Race: TEC

Ship Type: Capital (Factory/Support)

General model shape: A large capital ship in the general shape of a carrier with extremely large docking bays on both sides the size of a large cruiser.  It has guns similar to the carrier's guns, except slightly weaker.

Stats: Extremely high shields and hull, though relatively zero guns.  Essentially a mobile Frigate Factory, for the cost of very little antimatter and a little extra resources, the Frui I can build any frigate or cruiser you have researched in a shortened building time as would be normal.

Abilities: Build Frigate(select Frigate to build, pay the cost, then wait around 15 seconds for the frigate to build), Build Cruiser(select Cruiser to build, pay the cost, then wait around 30 second for the cruiser to build), Homemade(gives all ships built by the Frui I extra attack damage as well as hull strength, target ship[s] must be in local gravity well for effect) - Passive.

a sensors vessel for detecting the sniper ships/spy ships.

maybe even a suicide vessel? 

ooooooh.    spamming.

*Liberation sidles up to unsuspecting battleship* May I come closer?

Why thank you.  If you need any more ship ideas, I'm sure I could come up with more, and once I get some modelling knowledge in, I might be able to model the Volcar C. Scout.  The Frui I though... Mmm that'll be harder.

If you do use the Volcar, what race do you want it to be?  It can go as any race really, though I think it might fit best as TEC or Advent(the weapons can be changed of course, and the main body style as well).

I bet the Liberation would be nice with a good fleet of Flaks and Kodiaks to keep it a little company.  Vampire ships look kind of a nice idea, and perhaps you could even have an ability with them that, instead of sapping shields, gives shields to any friendly target(to prevent mis-clicking on enemies.  That would be embarrasing!).

A Ship with Catapultability. Like the Guardian but not for enemy ships. All ships i range will pushed in a chose direction.

A Ability that allow friendly ships to jump out of the system from everywhere they are inside the gravitywell.

A Ability for a carriertyp ship that allow a kamikaze mission for the bombers/fighters.

my friend came round my house to see sins a while back and he said the kodiak looked like a car/bus with guns

i agree it looks shit!

Goes into the Kodiak entity file and turns the average 18dps into 42 dps! All happy now???

I bet you dont give a damn how a ship looks as long as it kicks ass LOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooool J/K

Justin S.

I like that idea...A LOT!! Could call the ability Annatar11s Influence (read Virtual Madness in-game)! Could be really fun to make and even funnier to watch in-game ! Very good idea!

PS: I'm starting to think I'll have to make a resume in OP about everything I need to keep track off and code

Take care all

Justin S.