Humanoid Ships

[BasicallyClueless]

Just throwing in my two cents here, but I think their design is incredibly outdated. They all look like giant dinner platters with absolutely massive, ridiculously oversized guns on top that take 90% of the space on top of the ships. Most of the other shipsets in the game have reasonably sized guns and the remaining space is more aesthetic and built like a proper ship instead of a just a platform for a gun the size of the moon on top of it. I mean hell some of the guns are so big they block the view of the control tower. If anything the guns are so big they should get some kind of damage boost against enemies lmao.

Is there a mod to make the humanoid ships look more appealing or something?

[Forblaze]

I really don't like most of the ship designs. I feel like they really limited themselves by trying to make weapons visible, which necessitated having those wide, flat hulls.

[Rikimaru]

Even though I have a soft spot for some of the clunky designs, I agree with you 100%.
Compared to the others, they're kinda basic. Same as the reptilian set too - that looks old compared to the more elaborate ones.

So far my favourite is the Necro's - I like that dark aesthetic and it's pretty much the only part of that DLC that's not ♥♥♥♥♥ lol
Can't recommend a mod as I am but a humble ironman player

[BasicallyClueless]

Originally posted by Forblaze:

I really don't like most of the ship designs. I feel like they really limited themselves by trying to make weapons visible, which necessitated having those wide, flat hulls.

I think the later designs improve drastically when it comes to this, they get much much smaller.

But man the Humanoid ships literally look like barges with guns thrown on top, it's just horrible. Mammalian ships do this to a degree, but it gets proportionally less worse the further down the tree you go towards more recent stuff. Toxoid ships look amazing in comparison.

[Terijian]

not saying you're wrong but the humanoid ships were specifically made to evoke popular sci-fi like star-trek whose ships..... look like giant dinner plates mostly lol

[CrUsHeR]

I was always thinking of flying deluxe chrome vibrators

[Medve]

I also dislike the humaniod ships. Prefer the mammalian ships.

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

Originally posted by Carrion:

Just throwing in my two cents here, but I think their design is incredibly outdated. They all look like giant dinner platters with absolutely massive, ridiculously oversized guns on top that take 90% of the space on top of the ships. Most of the other shipsets in the game have reasonably sized guns and the remaining space is more aesthetic and built like a proper ship instead of a just a platform for a gun the size of the moon on top of it. I mean hell some of the guns are so big they block the view of the control tower. If anything the guns are so big they should get some kind of damage boost against enemies lmao.

Is there a mod to make the humanoid ships look more appealing or something?

As far as I'm aware, weapons platforms don't have control towers, nor even a crew, their entirely as their name implies, turrets with a short range link to the hub station, they may look ugly but in the real world effectiveness of a weapon means more then how it looks, and in space when it comes to combat, flat surface space crafts are far more likely to survive then compact ones, less hull breaches would result in less decompression of the vessel and loss of pressure in the ship or total decompression resulting in the crew exploding into bloody mists.

There's however tons of mods out there that also go the anime route, some that go the techno-biology route and others but I still find myself hard-pressed to say that Stellaris is avoiding the illogical route entirely, if anything it looks more like their going with shaped ships that somehow either match the pre-made races or ones that they'll make in the future.

And...ya...humanoid ships actually match up to one of their oldest splash screens: https://imgur.com/bUCkHhq While not 100% sure, their not to far off the bat...

Originally posted by Terijian:

not saying you're wrong but the humanoid ships were specifically made to evoke popular sci-fi like star-trek whose ships..... look like giant dinner plates mostly lol

In fairness very few games actually have the flat pancake design, with the closest being both Star-trek and Star-wars but star wars is selective with it to, heck tons of other games and movies change it up a ton, games like EVE Online make you understand that pancake ships only exist for transports and the more towers on a ship, the more powerful it is (or glowy bits) or how games such as Warcraft (Yes they have space ships) literally look like floating mountains AND angry pancake wasps. https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Legion_ship

[Terijian]

Im pretty sure they mean the weapon turrets on tops of ships and not defensive platforms

some of their concept art was used as inspiration for later content. Specificically i remember one of the loading screens with an alien at a desk looking out the window, people wanted to play these "loading screen aliens" so paradox was like "ok np" and made the portrait that the prebuilt voor techoncracy uses
I think similar with the ships but not sure and I also remember them saying it was inspired by "popular sci-fi" which i assumed meant star trek cuz thats what they look inspired by to me personally


I meant more the general aesthetic not any specific ship. voyager isnt really a pancake and still look slike it could fit in ok with humanoid ships imo

[_ALuX_]

Here's my two cents: They look like slabs of concrete with comically large guns welded on top.

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

Originally posted by _ALuX_:

Here's my two cents: They look like slabs of concrete with comically large guns welded on top.

So..basically every single World War 2 coastal gun? (I'm joking lol)

[Terijian]

The science ship is cool tho