Re: [GZG] [OFFICIAL] New GZG starships!

On 8/26/05, gzg-l-request@lists.csua.berkeley.edu
<gzg-l-request@lists.csua.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 17:04:49 +0100
> From: Ground Zero Games <jon@gzg.com>
> How would you have liked them to look, Allan? Any constructive
> comments may be taken on board with the rest of the new fleet.

Okay, since you asked...

I don't like how the teardrop front section of the NAC ship has been
obscured with bits sticking out of it. The original NAC ships had a
clean, streamlined teardrop section. The new ones, with bits sticking
out, seem almost to be a throw back to an _older_ design, not a later
design. It's hard to tell, in some shots, that it's even a teardrop
shape.

The surface of the NAC teardrops were always fairly smooth, though
with a lot of detail. The new ship has cylinders and what-not on the
surface. I prefer the flatter, smoother look. FT107 has some cylinders
on it, but on the main hull, not on the teardrop. Again, it looks like
it's going backwards, not forwards, in design philosophy.

In the older designs, the engine nacelles were attached near the rear
of the vessel. The new ship has them attached amidships. The nacelles
at the rear of the ship are one of the features that distinguish NAC
ships, at least in my mind. I don't like the nacelle connection being
moved forward like it is.

The "neck" leading to the teardrop is too big, though I understand
folks had a problem with the slender necks on the old ships.

Are those pods on either side engine nacelles? The old NAC ships had
cylindrical, or truncated cone, shaped engine outlet on the back. The
new ship has something that looks like that way in the centre, but the
nacelles have two squared off bits at the back. They look like engines
in the photo, but if so I would have preferred them to be rounded like
the older engines.

I echo what others have said: FT138 doesn't look like a NAC ship. The
two things I really don't like are the nacelles attached amidships and
the "clutter" on the teardrop.

-- 
Allan Goodall		 http://www.hyperbear.com
agoodall@hyperbear.com
awgoodall@gmail.com

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