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Aeonic wrote:Mmm...pretty space ships. Although Monitor sounds like the name of a recon vessel.
Well, monitors fall under two classifications, one being a small gunned ship, and the other being a big gunned bombardment ship, presumably to wipe out fortifications. The latter is used here: it's big, got guns, and wipes out fortifications.

The Centauri monitor which is still in the (re)drafting stage (as I'm just going to redo the model since I can't find the file) is more like the first definition, but tries to fill the role of the second. The Centauri have massive ego's, and bad ships. This ships of theirs however is still boarderline heavy gunship/tiny capship, and thus is about arco vaugn+ in difficulty.
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I've been having creative blocks with making autons (they keep coming out ugly/not what I want...)
One even was just a smudge, even on 48x48... too long and thing I guess...

Anyhow, I'm renaming the R5B shield to R6, as atarlost suggested, so that it doesn't keep bugging me for forever... XD :lol:
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a heavy, late-game auton
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the lightest and earliest avaliable command auton (unarmed) - it's brighter and more colorful in-game because photobucket messed up the quality because I was lazy and uploaded it as a bmp which it auto converts to a low quality jpg. Fine for bigger ships, but not for tiny ones like this.
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Here's another random auton, probably late/mid-game-ish?
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They all seem very dark compared to the usual autons, but other than that they look cool.
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Aeonic wrote:They all seem very dark compared to the usual autons, but other than that they look cool.
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That's actually intended; first off, the old autons are all made by the same company (except the mule), and secondly, I thought the vanilla autons were all to light, so I decided to aesthetically liven up the player's escorts. (I mean, since they'll have better longevity, would you rather stare at a bunch of white dots circling your ship all day, or ones of various shades?) XD
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What about making autons by sovereign ? I suppose that even the Ares or the Sung like to use autons, so they probably designed autons with they color schemes :D
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I always figured out the Ares and Sung had the good sense NOT to use autons.

Although they do have those nice sentries. I'd rather have some of those.
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An EI brand cargo auton. I'm working on a mining variant now.
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Here's an EI75 (the other being an EI50).
This one has a miner's cargo hold.
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I was thinking the EI cargo autons could have perhapse an ICX pre-installed on them...? Hmm....
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ive gotten the cw monitor pretty much all set up. ive also been making slow but steady progress towards getting everything nice and balanced and sorted into sepparate xmls; the current nearly sixty thousand line long file was getting rathet unmanageable. ill also be buffing the phobos too in ways that are of minimal consequence to the player but will provide the opportunity to make the phobos more equal to the commonwealth monitor.

names to suggest for the monitor would be appreciated
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Scarab
Widowmaker
Scimitar
Goliath
Titan
Olympus
Claymore
Eclipse
Zenith
Typhoon

http://www.starfleetgames.com/documents ... gistry.pdf
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Well, the Aquila is latin for Eagle. It's also the term for a legion's standard.

I'm not sure what would be in keeping with the roman theme. Maybe Consul.
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If you want to follow the Latin name theme:

Caden, Kaden, Pallaton = "Fighter"
Titus = "Giant"
Kabira, Kana, Mahala, Nero = "Power"
Tempest = "Storm"
Hashim = "Destroyer"
Awena, Vae = "Seer"
Aitana, Roch, Tulia = "Glory"
Astrid, Etana, Magnar, Valeria = "Strength"
Garren, Garron, Havard, Liam, Ward, Zareb = "Guardian"
Alastair, Clarimonde, Elden, Erimentha, Lexiss, Olesia, Ranger, Shamira, Sloane, Tarak = "Protector"
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The Commonwealth is apparently a republic so it would want to avoid imperial connotations to its names. It's also using not latin words, but actual Roman military terms. That makes things tricky. It may also indicate that the Praetorian should be renamed since I think it may be an imperial era only term. Tribune may be more appropriate for it.
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