OPMmmGroup now that is awesome  woot woot

I had forgotten about the different types.

I guess the only thing I'd like to add is that I love the blueprint system (overall) and am excited about being able to play with establishing blueprints for custom designs.

Quoting parrottmath, reply 425

Yes, but now they have the blue-print system. With a little bit of modding it can do it for you

The idea above was to allow for cosmetic as well as upgrade paths. As to the naming scheme, I would have the blue-print system set the naming scheme itself. Not saying it was perfect, but I know a certain sequence of ships that I want so I would like to be able to create that same sequence again if I so desire. If you have another sequence, it would be interesting to create multiple paths of ships. This is far to complicated in general, but they have a rough outline in their blue-print system right now. The type D battleships or the type L battleships and such. Not saying it is perfect, but it can be done.

Rand, it would be nice to allow the overwrite feature as well. The process is a little excessive at the moment, but then again we don't have to worry about names when we save the ships.

Your Star Trek style ships all look good. Could you try to do some Klingon ships with the Drengin parts / style?

I rarely use ships that come with the game except at the start of the game as soon as I get medium hulls I start cranking out my custom ships. I am working on my own tiny and small scale Star Trek fighter designs so I will eventually abandon all ships that come with the game. Thing is I know absolutely nothing about modding. 

As for Klingon ship designs I did a few in the Alpha 2 stage. I have not done any since. When I get around to playing Dregin Empire I will indeed make all ships as Klingon designs.

Rand Johnson in GC2 it was pretty easy to mod, there was a single shipcfg file for each default ship you could edit with the names you wanted to use.  I'm hoping GC3 will be as easy.

Wow I can do all that! Can't wait to play. Though more hulls seem to be needed.

I was looking at the ShipBlueprintDefs and ShipClassDefs XML files and it looks like it would be pretty easy to insert a custom ship that will auto-generate the way you want it. I might try it, though I'm not really sure I want to mod the beta.

P.S. Where are custom ship designs saved?

Yeah, might as well wait until they have all the components done. Otherwise you will be editing those files all the time.

The beast wishes to feast! She sports my latest turrets including a massive "A" turret with quad barrels and twin missile launchers.

I felt sorry for the Iridium, they have no huge ships.  Here ya go!!!

Looks like a Bruiser Cruiser 

I just finished my first attempt at a GTC Leviathan (or Fenrir) from FreeSpace 1+2. It turned out alright but I still reckon it needs a bit of work.

MasacreLT, very cool welcome to the group.  Look forward to seeing more.

My fleet so far, I love how the command ship looks so much bigger.

Are those all custom ships? Impressive, I tend to only build one or two per size per civ.

peregrine23 yes they are all my designs. The game is not really playable yet, so I spend a little time trying to break things, but most of my 300+ hours according to steam are spent in the designer inspecting stock ship and creating my own.

Ed, you beast! The words I love the most: "so far"

This mornings production is a heavy fighter.  I can't wait till I get to implement my hulls mod. I have far more steps to mine.  Like recon low hit points and space but big bonuses on speed and sensors.

Today was a good day, a real low pain day let the creative juices flow.  My space station constructor, look how big it is compared to a stock constructor.  A couple fighters too.

cool ED!!!...........

Lovely designs Ed

Working with my adaptable utility hull.  I now added transport and colony versions.  They also include a new part to add shuttles to the ships.

Sorry I haven't posted in awhile. I have several new designs done but to many to post here. Here is my most recent custom Star Trek design.

 USS Polaris NCC-96832 Polaris Class Heavy Cruiser. Huge Scale.

Comments most welcome.

Wow, .  I've been making new ships too, but it seems interest in them has waned.

I agree and I think it's because they are now into playing the game than building ship. I have started building my custom ships to play on map myself. I think others are as well so we wont see many posts on new ship designs.