New Modded Ships. Admin/players read plz.

[SAVAGE]

I was just wondering...............

In the past 18 months or so since I've been here, I have never really looked at another server.  This was maily because I was 100% happy with what I had here.  Today I had a quick browse at some other servers/mods, and was blown away by the amount of ships that were available to players.

Now I know NOTHING about modding etc ,but i was wondering why this server I was looking at had over 500 ships from Starwars, Serenity, BSG,Babylon 5, Startrek to name a few.  I never saw any complaints about contact points of ships or hit points, or handling issues in any of the forum posts.  And these ships looked amazing and I mean really amazing!!

There was a poll ages a wee while ago on the homepage and it asked what players would like to see more of, and if I'm not mistaken, the majority of players wanted more ships to fly.  Yet after a few mods etc,we only have a very small amount of modded ships here.

I am in no way flaming the admin team and there work ( I really have the utmost respect for the work these guys do) but I think I speak for alot of guys here when I say that, I would love to see even half of those ships here.  Imagine exploring the Void in the ENTERPRISE or smuggling goods into the home systems in a FIREFLY class ship or the MILLENIUM FALCON, or having a free for all in EFZ with TIE fighters and X-WINGs.

I know that Strail had mentioned before that he wanted new ideas for ships here, but is it possible to somehow get these ships to work in our server or even in your own server, for the times when the void is offline.  

Can you imagine these ships along with the design of the void's Sirius.  This , I feel would be an amazing pull to new players and give this place the "shot in the arm" it needs right now.

Let me know what the rest of u think - and dont flame or start any stupid arguments.

Cheers, Savage.

[Spacemarine_E]

well some more ship would be nice. But on these server finding out what ship might be your favorite might be  difficult, and the countless numbers might even lower the fun? This only my opinion though, and some new ships would be nice as said.

[Inf1n1ty]

More ships, lights and all kind of stuff dramaticly decreases the servers preformes.
And if seen the Crossfire mod and it lookt nice. Extra lights and allllloooootttt of ships, but lag was the result.
And there was only a handfull ships being used, because most ships wernt balanced.

Here you can fly alot of ships and still win or lose. It entirely depants on you to win and not the ship. Thats wy i like this server so much, because now i have no excuse when i lose  :P

There will be more ships here as Strail said. They will come in patches and some old ships might be going away like that weird dragon thingy.

Hope this clears a vew things.
Cya out there and Scream Through The Pain, Inf.

[Travesty]

I think that the inclusion of loads of ships from sci fi genres such as trek (even though Iam a huge fan), star wars, serenity and the like would detract from the game. Freelancer is freelancer after all. The few ships like the viper and x33 I think are ok because they are not over the top and doesn't scream at you like say Voyager would if you saw it floating round sirius  :D
You can play mods like wts and others in sp mode, I think, so you always have that to fall back on for a bit of fun.
I agree that the adding of a few more ships would be nice but like when the 2112 mod was first released with all the clan ships in their original forms, people will probably complain about ships being out of balance. I agree that ships need to be fixed if they are madly out of balance, which is a lot of extra work for the modders, but it would be nice to see some new ships in space. When 2112 was released for beta testing by everyone it was great to see people fighting in all the new ships, I flew in the stingray for a while, but then they were nerfed so no one flies them now  :|
I know that some people are working on ships at the mo that could be included so just wait and see!

[Strail]

This is for the community project and people who want to make ships.

Ships made will be included in the updates

[Inf1n1ty]

In that case can someone moddify the Viper? I would love to see those tail sacks gone Oh and a nice skin for me.
I was thinking of a black Viper, not totally black, but darker than what it is. Almost black
And the red stripes on the ship made like neon yellow. And instead of the tribal underneath a infinity sign like this:

That would be an awsome shight. oh and ADMIN weps Just kidding  <):)

Scream on, Inf.

[Zebulon]

Nice Avatar Infinity!  Personaly I go along with Travesty - I know we have the Viper here which is straight out of BSG.  Whilst I am a big Star Wars fan, I would prefer that Star Wars ships stayed on Star Wars MP games.  There is the oportunity here to develop ships of our own making - I only wish I had the graphics / computer know how to do that sort of thing.  The likes of the Highborn and the Thoth frieghter are fine examples of original work with a basis in contemporary scifi.
A frieghter that was an expansion of the Corsairs Titan would not be a bad thing, or one that was adapted from the Outcasts Stilletos.  Maybe something that would make an improvement on the likes of the Tomahawk or a slightly larger version of the Cobra.  I would say that if you are going to have more ships try to keep them as originial as possible rather than refering directly to the halls of fame and science fiction.  I'd draw you some pictures if I could lol - ! ! !

Cheers!

[SAVAGE]

Yeah your prob right,  the more I think about it, more original ships would be better than just copying anoyther server's ideas.

I just felt a bit jealous when I saw all those ships from my favourite films that were available to the players on other servers lol.  I would still welcome a bucket load of ships tho.

One thing I would like to see are ships that are more disc and flat.  I dont mean a flying saucer but more along the lines of the MILLENIUM FALCON.  The ships from freelancer seem to be designed taller and slimer as opposed to flat and disc like.  I used to play Elite Frontiers years ago and I had this ship called an ASP that was flat, the gold old days eh? lol.

Wish I knew the first thing about ship modding.  I would make the WARAN more playable.  Dont know why but I like this ships design. lol

[Inf1n1ty]

I know the viper is from BSG but has different colours
I love that ship because its for me the best looking ship ever and i like its fly style. No other ship in the Void fly that same as that one.
And Kahless likes it to so i hope it will be a keeper.

Scream Through The Pain, Inf.

[Berserker]

Void mod always has been well balanced pvp mod. That's why there are many great fighters fighting here and new ones still coming to the server. Of course new ships are needed but I don't think it's good to have a lot of new ships in mod. There are players who like hundreds of new ships in the mod but those servers never can be balanced well. It's my opinion. More new modded ships in mod mean more harder balancing them all. Then people complain. I am sure for any modder it's very very hard to balance all ships. There are just small differences that can make bigger advantage of one ship in comparison with other ships. Personally I prefer not many new ships in mod as they can be well balanced.

[Mad_Mikey]

, well i think that new ships would be too hard for individual modders to make however modded versions fo existing ships would rule, i.e new textures on the tomahawk and viper like infinty sed also some of the ships size could be modified as in the mod as it is now all ships are roughly the same size but i think ships such as the nomad highbred *AWESOME SHIP* shuld be bigger as it is designed to be an intimidatingg warship its should tower over the little anubis NPC's i regularly pwn

[Recca-dono]

Faction ships...

Navy ONLY ships should be nice

Pirate ONLY ships, I dunno how to make other factions unable to buy pirate ship/Navy ships ,but there might be a way..

This is an old idea but I am still hoping for it ^^

also ships shouldnt be identical at all they should be totally different..yet strong enough to fight eachother