My main complaint is that GW says they are afraid of it "devaluing their IP" or something. The only ships that come even close to BFG-sized are well, I can't think of anything that comes close to its scale. Hell, I don't even know of anything that can match WH40K infantry, seeing as how the SM are walking tanks, the Orks are Orks, Eldar are Eldar, Chaos are demon-possessed SM, and the IG appear in enough numbers to cause people to run out of ammo long before the IG runs out of men. I suppose that if someone brought a meson rifle or a proton cannon or some plasma grenades they might be able to hurt an SM or CSM. As it is not much can get through the armor of a SM or CSM.
I think they're more afraid of somebody making a very popular mod that causes bad associations in peoples' minds. Part of the reason for their success is that they've made everything in the universe so badassedly awesome that people who wouldn't play a tabletop wargame usually because of the 'nerdiness' involved are overwhelmed by the awesomeness of chainswords and the like, and having space marines get pwned by Mickey Mouse (for example, even Master Chief would hurt a bit) could not only have a major effect on that perception to everybody unfamiliar with warhammer and also, it would associate them with Mickey Mouse. So they just want their IP to remain in its own universe, and honestly I can sympathize with that a lot more than most reasons, a bunch of the guys working there have poured 20 years of effort into that universe, and it'd suck to see something you worked that long on treated as a laughingstock. By making you present everything in a manner consistent with the 40k universe, they want you to respect their work.
Plus, can you imagine the lunacy some halo fanboy could cook up, for example? It'd be almost as one-sided as that movie space marine list White Dwarf had a long time ago (5 models for 2000 points, but they get assault 5 lascannons and the like)
ok peeps in that case anyone know if i can just make a box and give it a center node and use it as a building? if i can we may see a release by cristmas because atm there is only 1 ship thats not a gw style ship in the imperial fleet ( thats right i did it i put 2 cap ships in and me and X crashed the game with their awsomeness... so i had to tone them down a bit) so you may get some bfg awsomeness very very soon... if not we may have to reverse engineer some buildings
It should work, but there's a key thing you need for factories, ShipBuild, the only other things things the vasari capship factory has are some lighting effect emitters, a Center, an Aura and Build-Phase_ShipyardBuildEffect emitters, for example.
Culture, Repair Platform (oddly), Refinery, Weapon Jammer and Trade Port are center, aura, and above.
Phase gate adds an Ability0 emitter.
Extractors ONLY have Flair-Flair_Extraction (a visual effect)
Hangars have tons of hangars (unsurprisingly)
Research labs have ONLY BuffAttachPoint_Above, BuffAttachPoint_Aura, BuffAttachPoint_Centered, and Flair0.
