Ok, so i'm sitting in Sol II looking over the ships I can buy.
and I start to notice hey every ships looks just like the MKI version... I mean come on folks. so we can change some small colors. a Black Vult. But a Vult should look diffrant from it's MKII and MKIII versions. and also When we apply weapons to a ship why wont that change the appearance? I mean you have this one time plasterd on look of some sticks considerd to look somthing like weapons. I mean seriously i've seen the same generic looking models for a "long" time now.

Why do ships look sorta box shaped?
Ok i'm going to make folks mad but...
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/evn/desktoppics/R_Thunderhead(800x600).jpg
OMG please let me fly that as an attack ship...
Ok I'm thinking why can we have ships like the Pirate Starbrige?
"Corvus StarBridge. http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/evn/desktoppics/P_Starbridge(1280x1024).jpg

so it's diffrant than say UIT version
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/evn/desktoppics/Starbridge(1280x1024).jpg

Ok so I'm not asking someone to literally copy these but
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/evn/desktoppics/M_Starbridge(1280x1024).jpg

can we have Engine glows like that? especially ones leaving streaks?

http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/evn/desktoppics/Civilian_Vipers(1280x1024).jpg

^^^^^^^ It reminded me of in Freelancer can we have Jumpgates?
instead of the Ragnarok Online, or the loading screens we have now? So like we actually feel like we are jumping from one system to another?

You see this?
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/evn/images/shipyards.jpg
It drives me crazy it's so freash and clean cut...

also WHY do we start out with all known space already explored?
It's bad enoth I can spit across the solar system must it be pre-revealed when I start playing? wheres the exploration and adventure in that?

I mean yeah the Devs probably wona kill my account now and i'll get flamed to death... But I... Come on what do I gota do?
Do we need more money? More programmers what? I mean OMG like lets talk to ambrosiasw get their Devs to help forum a partmership or somthing...

I imagen Vo is probably got more money going out than coming in... and you guys are doing the best you can with your resources. and What is being done?

I totally agree with ya man.
I also think that nation-specific ships should look a lot different from each other then they do now. Like look at this: http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/evn/desktoppics/Dart(1024x768).jpg it's from a race similar to the itani with the whole mind control thing if I remember my EV:N stuff right.

Absolutely Agree, and this can actually be solved fairly quickly, assumsing im not just fartin bullshit outta my ass here but wouldn't it simply take a rework of the textures, maybe a new style, hell some chrome and such, redo a few UV and bump maps, and then replace it on the server?

Im pretty sure it could be done within a month or two if guild took the time after the cilent is complete.

As has been posted elsewhere, we're working a lot of new ships. At least nine. They all look very different than anything currently in the game.

Modifying variants for more involved differences in coloration or texture is not difficult, but has more far-reaching implications can just.. making it look different.

Every videocard has a maximum amount of texture memory, which, once exhausted, causes the game to run at a terrible framerate. With single-player games this is a pretty easy problem to deal with, since the "game" has complete control over how much content is exposed to the player (and videocard) at once. In an MMO, we don't have this sort of control.. users can congregate where they will, and the more unique textures there are, the harder it is to keep the game playable on a wide variety of systems.

But, there are ways to work around thus.. such as using shader-based overlays on the ships. Patterns and so forth that can be combined, realtime, to make the ships look different and allow more configurability.. while only having a mild impact on overall texture memory utilization. We've talked about this a lot, but we haven't had the time to implement it.

So anyway, we do have a lot of new stuff in the works, and I understand how you feel about the lack of exploration. There's a lot of stuff on the way, watch the news posts to read more.

Thanks Incarnate, good answer ^^

9? nine?! NINE!!
Wow. Nine new ships. Awesome.

I...... CANT.......WAIT!!!! yay! 9!

you know what's sad? I remember every one of those pictures and can recall them without looking at them... and I feel inclined to point out that EVN itself didn't have that kind of engine glow you're describing - only the doctored desktop pictures did, which are far better quality (and perspective) than the game is capable of =P