I am not sure there is any nice way to say this (sorry Vlad): the NPC ships are just butt ugly. My eyes hurt from looking at them. They all look like a beer can with attached boosters. I would suggest to let them fly player ships (including specials) until better NPC ship models are available.

/me ducks and hides from Vlads wrath.

maaaybe that's a matter of taste?

i happen to like the different design. they look different enough from human design to call them distinct (which is sort of helping the "alien race" thingy).

this also helps quickly discerning between friend or foe in a multination group mission.

There are only three ships in the game which I actually think look good. Guess which ones!

We'll be adding more npcs "soon", which will fly player ships. (The current drones are supposed to be AI-controlled machines, while the new NPCs are supposed to be actual characters.) So once those are in place, you can chace them around instead of the ugly drones.

/me hops ups and down

fun fun fun

I quite like the heavier ships. Transports, Motherships, Guardians Defender ...
Never got close enougth to any of the Assaults without me or it exploding so I can't tell how they look like :)
But the rest is bleaaaargh.

The one thing that always got me was that they are drone ships... but they have cockpit windows. What the hell? It might make them look more robotically intimidating if you replaced the reflective cockpit window texture with a camera array texture. Especially on the Drone I and Drone IIs, since you tend to get up close with those guys before you level to more standoff weaponry.

I'm guessing it's the Valk, the Maurader and the Atlas?

Starfisher's right... a camera array and a ferocious "Tiger Teeth" face would be neat... like the old P-51 Mustangs or RAF Spitfires. (Drones only)

No one said that the ships where the robots. Remember the Cylons from Battlestar Galactica? The bots flew the ships. They weren't the ship themselves.

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