Why are all the ship sets ugly?

[L-laine]

Seriously why has paradox made such ugly designed ships?? I've seen some of the scracth drawings for necroids ship design and it looked way better than the final choice. Could they at least sale some of the better looking designs in ship skins pack or something I'm honestly surprised they haven't done this already.

Edit: Side-note but why have they also left primitive civilizations basically untouched since the game released?!? They've torn the game down and built it back twice yet that's the one mechanic they never bother to enhance or even acknowledge!!! What gives????

[Azure]

Because people have different tastes in what looks good, you find them ugly, i like most of them, some people might like all of them etc.

[Duke Flapjack]

Honestly if the shipsets were taken as-is and stretched to about 2x their length they would all look pretty good. They're suffering a bit from the same issue the ships in X4: Foundations are: they are all a bit too square.

I also second the Machine shipset as it doesn't fall into this problem. Also, this is a really good collection of kitbashed sets that fit into the vanilla "mix-and-match" mindset:

https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=2379282804

[Råb!d]

There are shipset mods that are way better than vanilla Stellaris. They're FREE!

https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/browse/?appid=281990&searchtext=shipset&childpublishedfileid=0&browsesort=totaluniquesubscribers&section=readytouseitems&requiredtags%5B%5D=Spaceships&created_date_range_filter_start=0&created_date_range_filter_end=0&updated_date_range_filter_start=0&updated_date_range_filter_end=0

[ChaffyExpert]

I mean, the human one looks like flying boxes with turrets.

Nevermind that flat surfaces are less effective armor than slopes and curves, so it doesn't really make sense not to make it a sleek flying box.

[Heimdall313]

Lithoid and Necroid are sexy.
Avian is ok.
Turning everything into Star Wars is even more repulsive than the Reptilian ship set.

[pipo.p]

Though the reptilian ship set reminds me of Homeworld 2.