Give us more shipsets for Christmas. Much more.

[Bezborg]

Hi all

As the title says

Give us a second ship set choice for every species phenotype. You read that right.

Give us a uniquely human shipset, with two options, following the UEN and Commonwealth lore. I know Humans are "humanoids" but I wouldn't mind separating them into a category of their own. Player seem to see it as "separate", and naturally so... I mean it's us, so why not. Human-only playthroughs are popular enough. But this one is optional.

Give us two choices for the Imperial shipset as well, the current one is an "evil", dark empire aesthetic (tbh I find it a bit "dwarfen", the corvette is literally an anvil).
Give us a white/gold glorious opulent choice as well.

We need bio ships for hives ( I currently use the Lithoid, it looks "secreted" from drones).
We need machine ships too (Reptillian could go into here, as one of 2 options, and make a new one for Reptiles. Just a suggestion).

Give us more eye candy

Charge it as you like.

 

[Reedstilt]

I half expected this post to be asking for a holiday themed shipset that just retextures these to look like Christmas presents.

 

[Bezborg]

I half expected this post to be asking for a holiday themed shipset that just retextures these to look like Christmas presents.

 

[Ryika]

I half expected this post to be asking for a holiday themed shipset that just retextures these to look like Christmas presents.

And this, my friends, is why modding was invented.

Did you know there's a mod that turns the Food Icon into toilet paper? Modders are doing their part to preserve knowledge about the events that aspired during our time, so the generations of the future still have access to it.

 

[Bezborg]

And this, my friends, is why modding was invented.

Did you know there's a mod that turns the Food Icon into toilet paper? Modders are doing their part to preserve knowledge about the events that aspired during our time, so the generations of the future still have access to it.

A noble thought but ain't nobody playin this once a sequel hits

 

[grommile]

A noble thought but ain't nobody playin this once a sequel hits

People still play Stars! and MoO1 and EU3 and HOI2.

 

[Ryika]

A noble thought but ain't nobody playin this once a sequel hits

Then I assume the Archeologists of the future will be digging though libraries full of largely forgotten games.

 

[Pancakelord]

Give us two choices for the Imperial shipset as well, the current one is an "evil", dark empire aesthetic (tbh I find it a bit "dwarfen", the corvette is literally an anvil).
Give us a white/gold glorious opulent choice as well.

I wish we could dynamically swap textures on shipsets. It is possible to do reskins right now, but it takes most of the work of making a new ship set - except for making new meshes themselves (As entities for new shipsets can be told to point to existing 01_humanoid shipsets, for example, but point to modded diffuse/specular/normal textures).

It could be done UI-wise with a skin selector like in the photoshop below.

This probably isn't technically possible without some rewrite of how the game addresses core "entities". But it would allow for packs of retextures (which IMO has a high impact factor, more can be done to provide variety with the existing meshes than just spamming out totally new shipsets) - you could potentially make stuff like decals for ships that change per government ethics (showing a spiritualist or materialist icon on the side of a space station) or the nation's flag icon or with ship rank (showing a chevron on the side of the ship etc), or even Psi/machine "themed" textures for shipsets that have glowing circuits or occult symbols on them and so on.

Its actually extremely easy/fast to do reskins too, without going overboard on redesigning the underlying bitmap [e.g. replacing the fungoid ship's metallic hull texture with a fleshy/infested looking hull texture]. Vinyl/decal Stuff like this is easily doable - though an utter slog to actually setup as an "independent" shipset, rather than a reskin:

 

[Casko]

A noble thought but ain't nobody playin this once a sequel hits

There are people who play Tiberium Sun to this day. And this one was released in 99.

or if you want a Paradox specific example just look at people still playing Hoi DH or EU3.

 

[Bezborg]

Ok, my comment about nobody playing Stellaris after a sequel shows up wasn’t a statement saying “nobody plays old games” I play old games myself. And CK3 is still lightyears away from CK2 in my book.
My point was for Stellaris specifically- meaning this game is so wracked with issues that it won’t hold a cult following - at least in my opinion.

Also, my comment was a joke, as well.

Also, this is completely irrelevant for the topic at hand