Homeworld 2 MOD: "Starship Redux"

[NightmareAspect]

In this mod i plan to expand on the number of techs, ships and upgrades that are avalible to all of the races in the game. If anyone has any sugestions for ships please tell me in this thread.

The mod is tennitavely called Starship Redux. for now the plan is to add about 5 new ships to the Hiigaran's fleet and 4 to the Vayger's armada. Most of the mod will initialy be taken up by supercapital stuff but the fighters will eventualy be included.

Hiigarans new ships (Least to greatest)
Ajacks Flack Friget
Harliquin Heavy Friget
Escort Light Carrier
Bastion Heavy Destroyer
Gabrial Battleship

Vayger new ships (least to greatest)
Sucide Friget
Mine-Laying Friget
Anti-Capitalship Destroyer
Light Cruiser

This is the list thus far, but it will most sertainly change. I will try and get some consept art up for people to peruse soon i hope.

[Ammon Ra]

erm...4 capital ships for the Vaygr? true they are more ighter based, so capital ships would be nice, but nevertheless, try to put some fighter/vettes in thre, you might have to wait untill you know about every vaygr & hiigaran ship.

Higgs:
Destroyer,
heavy destroyer
HBS
gabriel BS

that'a abit excessive for super capital ships, but it could work ;)

[NightmareAspect]

Well the reason that i have more ships for the Hiigarans and they are all caps is that that is te most researched topic that i have found. And the interactions between caps are rather easy to deal with befor the game comes out. The fighters are more complex and are much harder to balance in the class. As for the lack of ships for the Vaygers. It is becaus i do not full understand the fleet dynamics of the race. As soon as the game comes out, al the ships will be revised and new ones added for my mod.

[Tagar]

good :nod:

[Ammon Ra]

ditto.

nah, just thought u were Hiigaranly biased :p

[InocPrime]

Well, sounds cool :)

[NightmareAspect]

Well, i am Hiigaran biased... but i don't want to leave all of the Vayger fans out there with nothing to play around with... Plus, with such an evil race, their are bound to be ships that I come up with that the Hiigarans would never dare dream of putting in their fleet.

Oh... by the who... or way... or whatever
I realy can not do any major renderings of the ships until the game itself comes out. For i do not know the full roster of the ships that will be populatimg the HW2 universe. So dont expect to see anything more than just pencil scetches an such.

New ideas for ships on ether side would be most abliged.

[ELITE_Gnome]

Sketches are good fun!
Show us some, then I can pick it up and send u some of my ideas. :D

Or just say I like them offcourse!

[Stlaind]

Perhaps (and I'm trying to be seriously helpful) some Fast Attack/Assault Craft. High speed come in the corvette class but larger and come in squads of two (assuming that you can set numbers of units in squads for strike craft), you know raise the whole classing scheme one notch overall.

[NightmareAspect]

Hey..... I like it... But it has to be like a kind of dive bomber or strafing style...or such....Good idea it is

Hey by the way.. i do have some tech scetches of ships, i don't know how to get them on this page...as in they are on my hard drive but i can't display them on the forum...a little help please

[Stlaind]

Vaygr might use a ship close to this (http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/arsenal_ship.htm) for their battleship level vessel.

I would like to help w/ the mod and can do just about any thing but modeling right now but am learning.

:fallen:
I have a couple of Ideas of my own as far as modding goes that I would like to pursue though. maybe we could integrate one with your Idea.

just let me know if you are interested.

hehe fire :flamer:

[NightmareAspect]

Well about the Battleship for the Veygers..... I realy have to wait and see what the vaygers are all about. Lest it put my foot to far into the door and get it forcefuly remover.... if you catch my drift.

I would love to have your help.....This is going to be my first major project for the gaming world. I did not want to publisize about me needing help for fear of being booted from the forum. I did not know if reqruting was frowned apon.....but as always help is much abliged....pm me when you can on some of your ideas.

[Stlaind]

Nightmare check your PMs

[NightmareAspect]

My computer is down.....no clue on when it will be back up....il post a new message when i get it back on line:rage:

[NightmareAspect]

Well i repaired the problem on my computer...namely i got a new one. I am currently working on a render of the Hiigaran Battleship. Just one question that i need answered. How does one get a web page site form like geocties or google going so i have a place to display this stuff.

I am also working on some new ideas for semi-stationary starbase style defensive positions.... like a deployable heavyt ion aray that can fir e only while stationary....kinda cool huh.

And yes... i am officaly asking for help from anyone who would like to do programing or rendering or anything els in regards to this mod. Just PM me if you are interested. This will be my first mod and i plan to do many more.

[NightmareAspect]

Big news..well not as big as the releas of the demo but still prity big. I have got the concept art drawing of the hiigaran Battleship prity much done. i will be putting it up for all to see soon. The other ships that will most likely be in the mod will be up soon after.