Bring back the old designer that anyone can use

[Burner]

The new designer should become a blender plugin, so advanced users can just skip the step where we import the STL into the designer and then grapple with the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ interface to define voids and so on.

Otherwise, bring back the old designer, maybe let us export the mesh as well so we can have a custom exterior and a classical interior, or vice versa.

[Yuno Gasai]

Originally posted by BluntMan420:

this game would sell a lot better if they made a easy to use functional ship designer like the old mmo had.

How much u wanna bet Haxus that your sales would improve if u just had a decent ship designer in game ?

I obv can't speak for new players but quite a few hazeron veterans, especially from empires like Syndicate, said they lost interest in the game and quit around when Haxus first dropped the new designer, so not only might it keep new sales away, but it killed a lot of the existing community too, and that's something the game has relied on more than anything else

[Tiberius]

I obv can't speak for new players but quite a few hazeron veterans, especially from empires like Syndicate, said they lost interest in the game and quit around when Haxus first dropped the new designer, so not only might it keep new sales away, but it killed a lot of the existing community too, and that's something the game has relied on more than anything else

I fall into this category, I was a long time subscriber to the MMO and stopped my sub when the new designer took the place of the old.

[BluntMan420]

Originally posted by Tiberius:

I obv can't speak for new players but quite a few hazeron veterans, especially from empires like Syndicate, said they lost interest in the game and quit around when Haxus first dropped the new designer, so not only might it keep new sales away, but it killed a lot of the existing community too, and that's something the game has relied on more than anything else

I fall into this category, I was a long time subscriber to the MMO and stopped my sub when the new designer took the place of the old.

Yes i played back then as well, when the old ship designer was replaced with the extremely broken new one, server population dropped faster than an anvil being tossed out a plane at like 30,000 ft.

[Yuno Gasai]

Another thing somebody pointed out, in the game's steam description it says:

"Not everyone is a 3D modeler; it is not easy. The Steam Workshop offers a growing assortment of fantastic spacecraft and buildings designed by people with a gift for 3D modeling. Their work is there for you to enjoy."

Imo it's a huge problem that even the game's description says this, and it's used as some kind of advertising point for the game... I'm not sure how Haxus didn't realize how problematic the whole system is just from writing that
It feels like it hurts one of the core aspects of the game, making your own empire, having to just use somebody else's design is horrible game design and locks away yet another fun thing people could've done, now everybody is just using the same workshop designs
The worst part is, all this is just because of some vague "potential that the hull looks slightly cooler" idea, visuals that don't matter because the hull is just empty space, it's completely fake, it's only a better system if you *only* care about graphics and are okay with everything else being sacrificed for the graphics...
If you think about it, why are people who only care about that even playing Hazeron? It has never and never will be graphically impressive, so destroying one of its best core systems in the pursuit of empty graphics is just crazy

[BluntMan420]

Originally posted by Yuno Gasai:

Another thing somebody pointed out, in the game's steam description it says:

"Not everyone is a 3D modeler; it is not easy. The Steam Workshop offers a growing assortment of fantastic spacecraft and buildings designed by people with a gift for 3D modeling. Their work is there for you to enjoy."

Imo it's a huge problem that even the game's description says this, and it's used as some kind of advertising point for the game... I'm not sure how Haxus didn't realize how problematic the whole system is just from writing that
It feels like it hurts one of the core aspects of the game, making your own empire, having to just use somebody else's design is horrible game design and locks away yet another fun thing people could've done, now everybody is just using the same workshop designs
The worst part is, all this is just because of some vague "potential that the hull looks slightly cooler" idea, visuals that don't matter because the hull is just empty space, it's completely fake, it's only a better system if you *only* care about graphics and are okay with everything else being sacrificed for the graphics...
If you think about it, why are people who only care about that even playing Hazeron? It has never and never will be graphically impressive, so destroying one of its best core systems in the pursuit of empty graphics is just crazy

Yep i think u hit the nail on the head their with that.

Part of the Experience is being able to build yer own ship in yer own empire :/