Story and pictures of ships

[Spritfire]

I was sitting here at work and I Pressed the hornet "button" on the production page.

And it said "The Hornet is large enough to house enough generators to power several hypergates, while still carrying enough armour to survive fierce battles. It is capable of capturing several asteroids."

I dont think several asteroids goes as the two roids each hornet can cap now.

And then I pressed the Tarantula. There it said

The Cathaar Tarantula Cruiser is an older design within the Cathaar fleet. This strange looking vessel with its eight zealot class Ion beam drivers is amazing in its flight envelope. Possibly the most manouverable cruiser within any fleet, its whole desig

Why dont we have a picture of this? It would clearly make the words more impressive and easier to belive ?

And under the Mosquito it says :

The Mosquito generates the energy for part of a one-way hypergate, through which asteroids are towed. Most Cathaar fleets focus instead on their cruiser class ships, which are usually easier to attack with

Weird part with this is that CO has become cath's main attack fleet.



Can we get some pictures and more story of the ships?

The story who is in use atm is good, but much of it is wrong. Else its good tho

So again, Can we get some pictures of the ships, and more story about the races and their ships.

[Ultimate Newbie]

The problem with ships is generally they take a long time for people to make, and the number of guns etc change from round to round (tarants used to have 8 guns, now they have god knows how many), ships change class as the stats require (Ghosts were frigates, then they were destroyers and now cruisers, arbitarily), etc. That, and bandwidth issues.

Generally, the problem has been to get people to make 55 or whatever images for ships in the first place. even if that did happen, then the problem is that the image of the ship doesnt match the way some other people envisioned it to be, thus it is either "wrong" or "crap". And images of low enough quality to avoid bandwidth issues tend to look "crap" anyway.

But, if you are willing to volunteer to do the images, i'm sure Kal would like to hear from you right now.

[Spritfire]

I didn't belive bandwidth was a issue anymore?

And if we first gets images done, why change race of the ship? A Tarantula should allways be cr, thats the way it should be.

If you need another frigate ship, invent a new one instead of changing one.

But I also belive the story of the ship are important, would be easier to make ships if you have the story of it.

I am no image maker :\ else I would love to do gfx.

But didn't we have MrLobster who did some old images? My mind reminds me about a thread some time ago..

[Chef!]

There are (or were) two people contributing 3d renders of ships to PA when i left the team. I assume they are still doing so and there was also a team of writers working on a more "meaty" story.

I would imagine Idler would be able to shed some light on where things are up to with this now.

[Spritfire]

Then hopefully someone from Pa Team care to comment on that.

[LordBlackheart2000]

During the 4th age, before the races that we now know & love were in their early stages, there were some ships that still to this day roam the universe for their next prey. Some of which you will know some have changed their names but their origin can be found, back in these early years.

Known Ships

Phoenix - Corvette Class - was designed during the 4th age to take down Crusier, Destroyer & Frigate class vessels, until the 6th age where it was to be re-designed for use against Frigates, Corvettes & Fighter class ships, with its weapon speed doubled & its guns double while reducing its fire power per gun by half it made it a much more effective killing ship. And we know that it stayed this way until the atleast the 9th age but after that the history records have become lost, So we must move onto the modern version of this wonderful little ship & we can see it has reverted back to its single gun but with increased fire power along with its targetting being reduced to specialise in taking down other Corvette Class Ships.


I'll do some more later must go out now.

Cupelix