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Show off your ship designs 2007!

Ship designs from around the world!

from GalCiv2 Forums

Last year, we had a thread in which people showed off some of the great ship designs they created with Galactic Civilizations II.

With the expansion pack adding so many new components and so much free form support, we'd love to see the cool things players create.

The cool thing in the expansion pack is now you can save your creations as templates and then assign the computer players to make use of those ships in various roles. Combined with the capability of creating your own custom opponents, now you can create your own sci-fi universe within GalCiv without modding.

 

 

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Reply #101 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Anyone know if there's a way to just access the ship-design screen outside of a full-on game? I'd love to be able to create some premade ship designs that I can then quickly access when I hit the right tech-levels.
Reply #102 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
A class 22 planet? Wow...Go all out on that one.

You do know Brunai (Brunei) is a real place...It's east of Viet Nam.

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Reply #103 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Anyone know if there's a way to just access the ship-design screen outside of a full-on game?


Begin a game using the 'Battle of the Gods' scenario and the ship style of your choice. You'll begin with all the techs you need for building any ship.
Reply #106 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
lol, the inspiration are those shadow race guys from Babylon 5! once I saw the race picture, I was pretty sure it was that along with the homeworld name.

in one of the episodes where you actually see the Shadow guys (they were called The Shadow most of the time), they appear as black spider/crablike creatures, and thier homeworld was found to be Zha'dum (or something along the lines), plus your ships look alot like the ships they had in the Babylon 5 series.


You guessed it . The 'Dum part is from the shadows too, but i came up with the "Brunai" all by my lonesome. Now the ships are all my own, but still a little shadow inspired .


A class 22 planet? Wow...Go all out on that one.

You do know Brunai (Brunei) is a real place...It's east of Viet Nam.




Well when you make your own planets, you can make them any class. However, Brunai'Dum is the only planet in the Unai'Dum system, there are no others. So you don't get a second planet or anything.

And yes, i know Brunei is a real place, but not until after i thought up the name Brunai! Heh, go figure. At least it's not spelled the same.
Reply #107 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Logic, isn't the logo for the Brunai Imperium an edited Vasudan logo from Freespace? Cause I know I've seen that before, though not with that particular color scheme...
Reply #108 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Here is the last of the Colonial fleet




Reply #109 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Logic, isn't the logo for the Brunai Imperium an edited Vasudan logo from Freespace? Cause I know I've seen that before, though not with that particular color scheme...


Spotted another one! I took the geometry from the vasudan logo (the outline, it screamed mean looking to me), gave it a new paint job, and made it 3D.
Reply #110 from Stardock Forums Top

Mockery- You can go to the library and download the ships there. The read.me normally has install directions but sidemancer has come up with the following basic guidelines when using those ships.



Pubmaster was nice enough to tell me this, but I am a noob. Where is this Library. (Ye gods, I know I am gonna feel stupid when i learn the answer to this.)
Reply #111 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Umm... www.galciv2.com (The home page) > Navigation Bar > Library....
Reply #112 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I knew I knew that logo! Amazing, Logic.

Oh, and Kenwebb, I envy your artistic talent. I majored in art and I can't do things half that good. Keep it up!

I've been tinkering with the ship designer for the last 15 minutes or so and came up with this piece of junk   . It's the Kol'tiraad class...something. Haven't quite worked that out yet.

In case you were wondering, I made a custom race as a sort of a hippie Drengin syndicate, so i tried to make the name sound remotely foriegn


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Reply #113 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Thanks for the complement Thingamabob  , my-be I should be a game designer. I wonder if Stardock is hiring?  Anyway I am almost done with the BSG Fleet pack, a few more clyon ships to make and I will release the hole-thing to the library.
Reply #114 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
here is a ship i thought of

from the outside it looks just like a fleet of ships it is really one ship



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i know it could use some more refining but let me know what you think

point of view of an enamy captian it would appear to be three battleships coming at you instead of one
Reply #115 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
here is a ship i thought of

from the outside it looks just like a fleet of ships it is really one ship


If you use my mod, you can do that without having to put beams in there connecting the ships
Reply #117 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
These are some of the Metaverse ships that I have made. The squid/sea creature looking ones I plan on using as templates once I get DA. I would love feedback good or bad. BTW I have submitted a Metaverse ship pack to the library that do include these.
Two varients of my explorer/sensor ships:
Advanced:

and Regular:


Another Carrier Design- I was going for a BStar G fighter launch system with recovery ops beneath it. P.S. It looks like I have some fine tuning left to do on this one.


A Template Cruiser Design:


A Template Destroyer Design:


A quick look at some other destroyer designs:


And finally another Template Destroyer:
Reply #118 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Very nice. I have to start playing more often and just do a few days of Battle of the Gods ship creation. HAHA!

I love those squid ships!!!

GalenEvil
Reply #119 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
kenwebb you dog! I LOVE that you have a docked Enterprise in your colony ship! Very classy! Did you put it there for size comparison or just as an easter egg?
Reply #120 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
BTW thanks GalenEvil. I am glad that you like them. I find I play half and design the other half of the time I am on the game.
Reply #121 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yeah PubMaster, those ships rock! I love the geometry on the engines-very unique!

Anyway, I'm new to the whole image hosting thing (took me around 20+ minutes to get that www link working in my above post   ), and I was wondering how to get full size pics into a thread instead of making a link or using tiny thumbs.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Reply #122 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
here is a colony fleet using kyros mod

which i will probable not use becouse i like to use the metaverse game

and i hope as i put in one of my posts which everyone ignored or didn't see kryos gems

that they make it an add on so i can use it in metaverse games i know shameless plug


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Reply #123 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
We've been asking for that since the release of the mod.. The request has always met with a brick wall
Reply #124 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
you remember break out don't you
Reply #125 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
kenwebb you dog! I LOVE that you have a docked Enterprise in your colony ship! Very classy! Did you put it there for size comparison or just as an easter egg?


The Enterprise is part of the colony ship to show that there are 6 large docking bays 3 on each side. I have few Babylon 5 ships docked on it and an Enterprise E, and Interrupted docked on the other side.