I have the same opinion. It looks to sedate for a ship-of-the-line platform. It should have a more manly presence for a lack of better words.

isnt the kol the only fullon, no conversion battleship?
and even if it isnt. thats still no excuse to have its most powerful weapon be bumps on the end of 4 poles.

exactly, the royal TEC's grand battleship of the ARMADA!
should not be small or sleek, it should be bulky, huge, bristling with cannons!

yes, yes it does.

Try build this Freedom Ship, and better picture of it Wikipedia Picture. It is slant to become the world's largest ship. Grant it is an ocean going vessel however several people feel it is too much big/difficult IMO.

I was wondering the same thing.

I wonder how much has already been invested in this.

I was worried about large storms too, but apparently it stay near port, plus the way their voyage spans out they pass through the regions of the world when they are at their best in weather.

The Kol has guns all over the place (forward and side batteries). It devastates in combat, especially once leveled up some. Is it the look of the ship you guys don't like or what?

@Yar - yeah. I would also say it is not that I dont "like" it so much as it looks wimpy for the exact reason you stated.

What I'm about to state is purely personal preference and in no way should be considered a legitimate criticism of the faction. It is merely an iconoclastic perception.

Whit that said, it as well as the other ships (to a lessor degree) dont give a feeling of highly successful capitalists to me. A good example of this innate feeling is the feeling one gets from the skyscrapers one finds in all the major finical cities in the world (where such buildings can be built). When you look around you see power, wealth, influence and other things. Another example is when one walks into a 5 star hotel you get the impression opulence, refinement and elegance. All these things are visually suggestive of the type of people whom one would expect to find in those environments.

The current style employed for the Tec just does not give me any such sense(s) given what the lore suggests for what its worth. That is not to suggest that you guys are planning on doing a StarCraft thing and publishing books and plastic models and miniatures and what not regarding the franchise once established. But if you were...

oh, its more than powerful enough for me. its just that it looks kindof...
thin? I just expect the central pillar of the armada to be slightly more, meaty.

its just something to consider if your designers have free time, its not a huge issue.

it does have that sort of "I'm small, but I can beat you, bitch" feel to it. doesnt it?

I dont know if that was the point...
but I kindof like it, maybe TEC in SoaSE II?

The KOL Battleship is one of oldest models in the beta. You can expect multiple revisions of this ship before release. The final size is unlikely to rival that of the Sova or the Akkan, however it's appearance will be 'battle hungry'.

I'm thinking that it could have a couple large turrets. Perhapse something that resembles the Liberty Battleship Missouri in "Freelancer" (sorry, that's the closest example that I could think of, unless anyone saw the Concordia-class Cap Ship out of the "Wing Commander" movie, which should have been ? way, way better than it was). If given the appropriate boxy/industrial look, I think it would still look TECish. Please, if you agree or disagree, I'd like to hear everyone's opinion. Anyone?

"I sigh and push the button, and yet another world ends."

does an industrial superpower ever have to conserve?
i didnt think so. I think you're confusing your races

YAY!!!

the akkan I can understand, a whole planetsworth of people etc, but the sova (the support ship, correct?) that doesnt make as much sense to me.