God your designs are crazy. Remind me of warhammer 40k type battleships, very large, blocky and almost gothic in appearence. Mine are all sleek and sexy and spiky.

Show them then

Also, what style are u using? Terrans? Or different ones. Is it my designing style or maybe it's just that the Terrans have blocky ships haha.

But one thing is for sure, they are crazy, you are right. They reflect their maker

how do I post a shot or a small vid?

Hey Gov, link isn't working for me. Doctor J, did you ever play Wing Commander? The Kilrathi were renowned for asymetrical reverse winged spacecraft.

Hit the "Print Screen" button and paste it in an image editing program. That's what I've been doing, at least.

Behold! I give you... Arf!

Link

Link

As seen previously... but still cool

So, just to let folks know how important the littlest things can be...

Here I was, on penny-arcade.com reading the news blurb about GalCiv II that accompanied their comic, and I thought to myself, "I should look into getting that."  I'd gotten GalCiv I, but found it to be too limiting for my liking.  It was *good*, but not what I was hoping.  So I read up on GalCiv II, and I'm thinking that I really should get II for sure, eventually...

Then I start reading about the user experiences, both the good and the bad, and decide I should get that once i get my tax return in a few weeks.  *Then* I see that you can play any race, and the comments about the new, brighter AI and all that, and decide I need to get GalCiv II with my next paycheck, in a week-and-a-bit....

Then I found this thread with all the pretty pictures, and read up some more on ship design...  Now, I must purchase this the instant I get home and start it downloading, so when I wake up the download purchase will be long-done and the game will be waiting for me to be addicted, err, to start playing!

The winning thread for me was a comment from someone saying the whole game's cost was paid for entirely when they opened the Ship Builder menu and started playing with all the nifties in there.  Must get GalCiv II!   

lol, i love the Mantis and the tactic It really does look like it wants to "pounce"" or something haha

nice work guys.

keep it up

Does this look familiar? hehehe



Haven't built any yet, still trying to get smaller phasors and shields.

here's a couple of mine from last night.
this is the Scorpion class fighter:




and the next one I designed in a hurry after screwing up the previous ship. But I think it actually turned out pretty interesting looking... especially with the glow of the engines right at the cross-section like this:

Haven't built this one yet, so it's still in the shipyard (my chief designer must be part klingon)




(Finally figured how to make the pic show up )

Anyone know if you can transfer ship designs around? Say someone makes a great ship for the Human hull forms could we download the shipconfig file and use it ourselfs?

wow guys, great designs. half of the fun of this game is designing ships. I really thought I was going to find it boring, cumbersome, and difficult, but I really enjoy it. my ship designs have mostly been random experiments so far but I've chugged out a few cool prototypes. I really think the ships that draw inspiration from nature look really cool, I'll have to experiment with that some. I also want to try that B-Wing design, real cool

I've been trying to figure out the enterprise configuration, I'm glad someone was able to. I wonder if we could figure out the excelsior too...btw, has anyone successfully created a star destroyer? I read it was possible, but I imagine it to be tough. so far the only pieces I've noticed are the extension pylons and the pylon sphere to make what would be the shield generators on a star destroyer

btw, I really think you should be able to access the shipyard from the main menu and be able to design prototypes independent of the game. it would be a good idea to not allow the addition of anything that took up space though