I'm wondering if Amplitude has any plans on implementing the United Empire 'original' skin that was shown during the G2G voting for the Sheredyn's appearance. Here's a picture for those who are unfamiliar. The skin I'm referring to is the left-most one labelled 'Original UE Ship Design and Patterns.'



http://i.imgur.com/9PcZ5.jpgL



For comparison, here's a link to the artwork thread that shows the UE's current ship models: https://www.games2gether.com/endless-space/forum/27-general/thread/10967-endless-space-art-screenshots-and-videos





Despite the name, this pattern is actually quite different and in my opinion better than the 'original' that the UE currently have.



First and most importantly of all, the visually clunky and unappealing current Destroyer model is relegated to Corvette, where it is replaced by the far better designed and more military-looking 'ironclad-style' hull that is currently used for the Corvette. The Cruiser, while lacking the awesome fin of the Sheredyn-style, does gain a lot more detail in the rear of the vessel. Finally, the Dreadnought gains some very nice decals on the 'hammer' section.



The generic 'all-gold' colouring of the current designs is also replaced with a much more utilitarian and subtle mix of grey and green. Once again, I prefer the new designs as it makes the vanilla UE much more visually distinct from the Sheredyn, whereas right now they can only really be picked apart by one being 'all-gold' and the other being 'all-gold with some black and red.'



I understand if Amplitude doesn't implement these since this is most certainly just concept art, but can we get a confirmation as to whether or not they're planned for a future update?

I wouldn't mind knowing this as well. Although, I primarily want to know if there is a plan to switch the current Destroyer and Corvette models. When the bonus skins were being voted on it seemed as if that would be the case, and like you pointed out, I like the switch. When the gold release came and I got into my first battle, though, with my scout ship...Alas, it was still the same model it had been, and the Destroyer remained the same as well.

I'd love to see all these skins implemented, not via additional faction (like with Sheredyn),

but just all the others(the Sheredyn skin is a emperor edition only skin, obviously) as options for the UE.

So that you can chose out of 3 skins for UE.

I'd like to see that for each faction

I love than grey original skin and the alternative ship shapes!!

Turned into a discussion topic.

Multiple skin types and mix/matching for factions would be sweeeeeeeeet. Just give us mod access and I'm sure modders will add a ton!!

jdan007 wrote:
Multiple skin types and mix/matching for factions would be sweeeeeeeeet. Just give us mod access and I'm sure modders will add a ton!!

There kind of is mod access already, with more promised to be on the way. And I imagine we'll be seeing a number of community competitions and more G2G votes for skins to come in the future.

Hey guys!

the original skin is the one that inspired the actual UE skin. Sadly for texture budget issues we had to simplify some areas, that you discovered by being able to compare the concept in the actual in game model.



We'll do everything we can so you can have fun with models and and new factions by adding them into mods

SpaceTroll wrote:
Hey guys!

the original skin is the one that inspired the actual UE skin. Sadly for texture budget issues we had to simplify some areas, that you discovered by being able to compare the concept in the actual in game model.



We'll do everything we can so you can have fun with models and and new factions by adding them into mods

Awesome! Thanks for the info, SpaceTroll.

I personally like how the UE have their old models and the Sheredyn have their new models adds a bit of variety and it really feels like UE are the big army while the Sheredyn are the elite poster boys.

Really the only thing that I could suggest is the Destroyer and Corvette swap for both factions.

Thanks for the reply SpaceTroll.



Though as I and others have mentioned, could you lads please at some point switch around the Corvette and Destroyer for the UE and Sheredyn? It's a damn shame that a hull as beautiful as the current Corvette is obsolete as anything but a support ship within 15 turns.

Aureus wrote:
could you lads please at some point switch around the Corvette and Destroyer for the UE and Sheredyn? It's a damn shame that a hull as beautiful as the current Corvette is obsolete as anything but a support ship within 15 turns.

Agree, if it isn't too much trouble then it would be great if something were done to enable continued usage of cool small ship designs.

Me too I'd like to see this done.