I don't know what the progress is on developing new ships for the next release, but I had a suggestion.
We have been talking about adding or changing traderoutes, making them longer and/or more profitable and therefore more risky. Next to that, Strail has recently posted that there will be a dynamic economy in the next release.
I would expect these changes to result in an increase of serious trade on the Void. Now if this happens, there would be a need for additional ships, all with their own capacities and capabilities. Maybe some really big ones for the large runs, maybe some fast ones for the small runs.
In that light I was thinking if it would be nice to add the cargo ship 'Serenity' from the Firefly series into the mod. In the series and the film it is a cargo ship, roughly the size of let's say a Dromedary, if you would compare it to a Void ship. For the mod the specs might be changed a bit to make it more interesting to fly, I think it would be needing a far bigger cargo bay than the Dromedary. Hell it might even beat the AT, because if you have seen the movie and the series, you surely have noticed the ballroom-sized cargo bay.
Now I know that some of the A-Team aren't a big fan of putting movie models into the mod, but I have noticed quite a lot of Firefly fans here. And apart from that, I think it would make a very nice and unique addition to the current freighter line.
If the Dev Team would be interested, I here have a few pictures for you, showing the appearance of this ship. In the movie it can tilt its engines into a vertical position to make it land and take off vertically. I understand this would be about impossible to do for the mod. Might as well keep them horizontally. When it engages its 'cruise engine', the backside opens up like a flower to make room for the propulsion. Wen flying on impuls, the backside is closed into an egg-shaped form. I'm not sure if this could be put in the possible mod ship, but it surely would make a cool feature.
Well I hope this can be worked with and that it's on time. Maybe readers of this thread could reply and tell them what they think about the ship itself, so the A-Team can get a good picture of the popularity of it, and decide if it is worth the effort developing it.
Here are the pics:
*EDIT*:
Oh and the name of the ship would ofcourse be 'Serenity'.
YES! YES YES YES! I love fire fly and always wanted a ship in freelancer to look exactly like serenity! dont know why i never mentioned it but yes. GREAT IDEA! *bump*
[url=http://imageshack.us][img]http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/4209/lucifernosignc0.jpg[/img][/url]
"[i]Luciferno, A Misunderstood Angel...Reigning Hellfire on His Enemies[/i]"
I'm not a big fan of having ships from movies, but I think we could make an exception in this case. As long as we draw the line somewhere! I don't want to see U.S.S. Enterprises and X-wings all over the place, that'd be the day that I stop playing multiplayer Freelancer. One or two is ok (like the Viper), so yeah, I'm ok with it.
i know for a fact that at least one player on the dev. team has been designing new trade ships. now weather they will be on the next update or note i cant answer that. even if i knew i would not tell right now. but there is some new ones being made and looked at. when we get them well that is up to strail.
Promisse u we'll w8 in pacience the new mode! [-O< ^:)^ :-/ :-S :)] ;)) [-O< =P~ =P~ =P~
Just joking! we r curious but we'll w8 the results-have a nice work time! >-
-=Edit=-
Much emotion , and I forgot the subject: Cool ships Mav! Think it's nice idea!
-Salute you all!
New ships are always a good idea as players (mostly teens probably) get very bored if they don't get new "toys" to play with.
This also brings me to the Development Team.Have they actually been developing anything lately?( i can only see Zeus,Kumori and Trav active on the forums,data001 and gav also pop up from time to time but the rest?)
I think that we as normal players have at least the right to an update on how things are "developing" lately.You don;t have to spoil all the goodies out but a spark of hope might liften some spirits around.
And now to the new ship Serenity from the famous SF Firefly serial from which i have never heard of.I think that the Void needs players and modders originality and there really is no urgent need to copy/paste a ship into the void mod.(but that's for others to decide) All i'm saying is that creativity and originality is needed to draw attention and amazement in the first place and not copying other ideas wich in my opinion is just lame.
The Serenity ship does indeed look good and would be nice add-on for this server no doubt about it but i was thinking more in this direction:
This is a creation from Zyos (also a member of the Development team sadly not very active) a capital ship class type can't recall the name of it though:
EDIT: another creation from Zyos is the Arwing ship (a heavy fighter class type if i'm not mistaken)
Yes those two are also excellent examples. I'm afraid Zyos has left the server a while ago due to rl commitments. Or that is what I've been told. His Battleship is a very accurate copy of a model from the Battlestar Galactica series.
Thanks Spacy for them pics, I reckon those would be pretty helpful, would the dev team decide to implement the ship.
Burn_Baby_Burn wrote:I think that the Void needs players and modders originality and there really is no urgent need to copy/paste a ship into the void mod.(but that's for others to decide) All i'm saying is that creativity and originality is needed to draw attention and amazement in the first place and not copying other ideas wich in my opinion is just lame.
Seconded. The Serenity has been done to death in other mods along with every other ship from any popular sci-fi franchise you care to name, and throwing such things in strikes me as watering down the originality of the mod, making it that little bit less distinguished every time you dump one in just for the sake of giving another few planets something to sell.
We already have the viper which apparently every modded server must have by law and that Stargate fighter which I've never seen anyone flying- if Void had any obligation to cater to sci-fi movie fans (which it doesn't) I'd consider it fulfilled.
As I believe someone once said- This is Freelancer. If I wanted to see TIE-Fighters everywhere I'd be playing a Star Wars game. I've always liked the impression Void gives of having an underlying story running through it, and every time that story has to explain away the fact that one of the ships just so happens to look exactly like the Y Fighter from Sci-Fi Franchise Z by some bizarre coincidence, it loses credibility somewhat.
Think about that for a moment before clamouring for another cartload of derivative knick-knacks.
[color=#00c4c4][url=http://void-reavers.com]-=REAVERS=-[/url]Crescendo, Overture, Finale. Pilot of the Concerto.[/color]
I think you have a good point there. I wasn't aware of the fact that the Serenity has been done before on other servers, since I spent little to no time there. I also must say I agree with you saying it would take away a bit of the originality of the Void. To stay in the true spirit of freelancer, the best thing might be to design new never-seen ships from scratch, which is exactly what the Dev Team is doing.
Kumori wrote:...that Stargate fighter which I've never seen anyone flying...
That would be the Spartan if I am not mistaken. A beautiful ship to look at if you ask me. I have purchased it for both one of my FAQ chars and my event char to make it a bit more known. Unfortunately it seems to have one or two minor bugs, which would explain the lack of use.
I was actually referring to the X-304. In the 2015b mod, the Spartan was pretty much identical to the Sith Infiltrator from Star Wars (I think...) and still looks vaguely like it. (Thanks for reminding me, I'd forgotten about that one)
[color=#00c4c4][url=http://void-reavers.com]-=REAVERS=-[/url]Crescendo, Overture, Finale. Pilot of the Concerto.[/color]
Ah yes, the little image of the Spartan at the ship dealers still shows the black previous version of the ship. I wish I would have been around to see that one.
And the X-304, yeah that's an underestimated shippy. It has a class 9 shield, is ridiculously fast and has enough power to feed 2 class 7 Nomad Prototypes along with a couple of Lasers3. A nasty bugger indeed if equipped correctly. Shame you don't see it that much...
[quote="MAVERICK";p="189193"]Ah yes, the little image of the Spartan at the ship dealers still shows the black previous version of the ship. I wish I would have been around to see that one.color][/quote]
The "Black Beauty" Spartan was indeed one of the most amazing and strongest ships known to the Void.Sadly it had a malfunction:when u managed to get it's shield down and hit the hull it would loose somewhere around 1/3 of it's original hull.Due to this bug it had to be removed.
Hopefully it will be fixed becasue the current version of the Spartan looks like a small Penis flying through space to me.
Voidserver.com