does anyone else make up ships?

bobenhotep · Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 11:52 pm Post subject: does anyone else make up ships?

i used to make up new ships by modifying the existing scout ship, ghtroc, and yt-1300, drawing a picture, and calling it something.

the majority of them were saucer shaped, which i explained away by form follows function. docking bays are made for saucer shaped ships.

does anyone want examples of what i am talking about??

Ankhanu · Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 2:23 am Post subject:

I create stats for things all the time, ships among them. Some of them, I did like you did, modify existing stats and Boom, new ship. Others, I decide what role it should fit, where within the spectrum of its class it should fit in terms of capabilities and draw it up from there.
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Hellcat · Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 3:02 am Post subject:

Well, back in 2005 I posted the stats for the Twin Wing Assualt Bomber I created. I'd used scans of a X-Wing and a B-wing from the original Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels with the idea coming from the P-82 (later F-82 when the designation system changed fighters from P for Pursuit to F for Fighter) Twin Mustang. Twin Wing.

Usually modify exsisting designs for NPCs I create cause they usually use the ships for special purposes. Like a bounty hunter will upgrade weapons, engines, maybe armor and shields, and add cells at the expense of cargo space. New designs I typically take from other sources. Like the DB-84 Raptor design's appearance came from an old G1 Transformers Swoop toy of mine. I also designed this killer light carrier from a different toy. It could only carry four fighters the size of an X-wing, but it's stats made it so other capital ships wanted to get on it's port, starboard, or aft cause if they were facing it's bow it could waste them with a salvo or two from it's torp and missile batteries.
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Nefasius · Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 1:38 am Post subject:

In the Internet PBP that I play the senior GM has created a couple of ships (at least I think he created them, could have stolen 'em though), a (admitedly very small due to resource restrictions) Super Star Destroyer of sorts, and a Heavy and Light cruiser (this one was meant to be a frigate but performed well enough to be classed up.
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bobenhotep · Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 7:29 pm Post subject:

this is what i used as a base template to build some ships. It is a YT-1300 with the engines, weapons, main hyperdrive and passenger space removed based on the tonnages listed in tramp freighter, my turret calculations, and the assumption that the laser cannon is 3 tons. add engines, passenger space, a hyperdrive, shields, and weapons and you have a ship. then just describe and name...

craft stripped down yt-1300 (but you can call it anything you want)
type light freighter
scale starfighter
length 25+1D meters
skill space transports
crew 1 or 2 (can co-ord)
passengers add passenger space(at least 2)
cargo capacity 190t
consumables 2 months
hyperdrive mult install main hyperdrive
hyperdrive b/u x12
nav computer yes
manuverability 0D
space/atmosphere 0 (install engine)
hull 4D
shields 0d (install shields)
sensors
passive 10/0D
scan 25/1D
search 40/2D
focus 2/3D
base price 72,000

bigox6942 · Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 9:24 pm Post subject:

I have been designing my own ships, stats, and deck plans, ever since the game came out in 1988. I have hundreds of ships, in a huge file cabinet.
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bobenhotep · Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 9:34 pm Post subject:

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cheshire · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 8:43 am Post subject:

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bobenhotep · Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 4:51 pm Post subject:

i stripped down ghtroc freighters and yt-1300s and built them back up.
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Kira Firestorm · Sub-Lieutenant Joined: 17 May 2010 Posts: 72

Hi all, my first post.
Ive been playing SW for a very long time over the years, when it first came out i think as a rpg.
Ahh the memories.
Anyway just getting back into the game, but i once designed a Stealth Starfighter for the game, took my pc a very long time to build, test and rebuild and used every part that would allow improvements to Stealth.
For the picture i used a VBR-2 valkryie.
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