Hello guys, back from the beyond again. I'm currently slowly getting back to Empyrion again and I wanted to design a new SV for POI hunting, cause my current designs are old, several times adjusted things across mutliple game versions etc and thus are functional but severly unoptimised. I kinda knew what I want to build, I got my reference and then I got stuck... I am kinda afraid what I want is not really possible with the blocks we have, but since there is a lot of better builders then me here, I decided to ask. So, if anyone has any ideas how to build something reasonably close to this: I would really appreciate any help or advice you guys can give.
maybe you should take a look at cockpit 6 and the modular wings have angled stuff, you could go from tapered blocks into that. there are fins like you see on the back but the small detailed stuff is obviously not going to happen.
Looks like a Viper from BSG. Building something that small and have actual weapons on it would be really hard. You could keep the basic shape but would need to double the size. Also, there isn't a good location for forward facing thrusters which means you'd need to use BSG flight physics.
Yeah, if you want a POI hunter you'd need at least a shield and a couple of rocket launchers, some laser weapons would also be good for shielded POIs You also need to account for the storage if you want to bring someting back from the POIs and so you can raid the POI without worrying with patrolling drones a turret may also be a requirement Adding to that the thrusters and all the required devices and you'd end up with someting 2 or 3 times bigger than that
That's actually the most important thing. If you want better looking ships then build bigger. The viper can very well be bigger than the original. It's actually even more realistic that way. If you look at modern jet fighters they're indeed air plane size and not car size. Building bigger allows you to add all the necessary devices as well and make it a functional and useful fighter in addition to being as true to the original shape as possible.
