What is your ship design? More like USS Enterprise or Millennium Falcon...

[Drivol]

I've often wondered how other designs look and would be fun to somehow share in game. Mine is somewhat of a Borg square / Millennium Falcon type, has several hyperdrives and can jump like 18 spaces. The inside is chaos - I use trade heavily to get supplies I need. I will not capture crew but will rescue from pods. One big massive ship! What is your ship design(s)?

[Wantoomany]

Boxes. All my ships are boxes. I have no flair for fancy designs. And square or boxy rooms are easier to fit modules/equipment into.

[Delle(DK)]

my ships look like a box but the front of the ship is a litle smaller and that is the bridge.
But i should build a uss enterprise ship ;-)

[TheWhiteFlame]

any of you watch "the expanse" ? i like that they show boxy/unusual ship designs aswell... which is reasonable, since space has no aerodynamics. (or KSP space ships, satellites...) - what i mean is, boxes are not even that unrealisitc (symmetry and a centered drive is!) in any way i kinda try to make my first ship look like ur average space hauler-bus. bridge in front, somewhat pointy shaped with bigger blocky section in the middle and some seperate space for the thrusters.

[TheWhiteFlame]

when u made good looking design, share ur screenshots :]

[RavensDaemon]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2123802121

[RavensDaemon]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2121213600

[RavensDaemon]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2120156949

[Wantoomany]

Originally posted by Executioner:

any of you watch "the expanse" ? i like that they show boxy/unusual ship designs aswell... which is reasonable, since space has no aerodynamics. (or KSP space ships, satellites...) - what i mean is, boxes are not even that unrealisitc (symmetry and a centered drive is!) in any way i kinda try to make my first ship look like ur average space hauler-bus. bridge in front, somewhat pointy shaped with bigger blocky section in the middle and some seperate space for the thrusters.

The expanse is an awesome show, and if you are not watching it you are simply wrong. But you cant really replicate the ships in the show in this game other then just general shapes. Mainly because there are no plans for z levels in this game and expanse ships are built like skyscrapers.

Don't get me wrong, id personally love a game that allowed features like that. I just feel its well beyond the scope of the game, especially considering the size of the team. Plus Z levels make it really hard to see what is happening to your entire ship all at once. So while they add flexibility, it comes at the cost of personality. At least in my opinion.

The one thing I feel this game really misses out on is gravity. Sure, we could hand wave that everyone on the ship are all wearing mag boots. But no one gets slammed into the aft bulkheads when your ship accelerates out of a system. Maybe implement a gravity generator, or some kind of inertial damper, or keep it more grounded and add in acceleration seats that everyone has to be strapped into before jumping. If nothing else, if the game cant at least acknowledge gravity, at least let us work without it by being able to mount equipment everywhere, floors, walls, ceilings, everywhere.

I know its, wishful thinking, and well beyond the scope of the game. But I can dream.

[Aieonae]

Donuts becos I am hungry XD

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2122902829

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2126905072

An earlier separate attempt
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2115827823

Hss Eagle G.One
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2127854005
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2127869539

[Eagle_of_Fire]

In reality, the last place the bridge should be is up front of the ship. That's assuming that you of course actually have a direction for the ship to use. In this game you simply vanish somewhere and reappear somewhere else.

But really, if you had directional weapons for example you'd want your bridge or anything critically important to the operation or survival of your ship to be as shielded as possible from incoming fire. That mean placing it behind several room worth of metal from anything you might hit or ram really.

Star Trek ships are ridiculed for instance for the fact that their bridges are always on top of the ship (deck one). At least you have very functional shields in Star Trek but it mean that an unprotected vessel with an enemy with half a brain would simply directly target the bridge and there goes the cast of your 10 years journey! Not realistic for that part really.

[Vagabond]

My ships look alot like a turd. Just long and tapered on one end.

[Johnny_Retro]

My last ship lastly got out triangle-shaped:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2127820975

[Mirsin]

I would upload a screen shot of my twin capital ships but im not sure how to!

[Johnny_Retro]

Originally posted by Mirsin:

I would upload a screen shot of my twin capital ships but im not sure how to!

You can take a screenshot with F12 ingame.
After that, go to your space haven in your steam library, select the screenshot and "share" it.
With that, you're uploading it onto steam.
Now again, select the image and you can find a link which looks like (steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=##########).
Just copy that link into a message and it will display automatically in a here.

[Mirsin]

Hope this works!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2127834901