I missed the mark with that one, the post was supposed to come out funny. 

the problem with constructors is they don't carry but one thing at a time, too bad this can't be a real solution in the game.

That is a nice replica. But the colors Good job on it.

Great Falcon!  I am loving all the gun turrets also

Here is my latest Star Trek custom ship design. I found a better design for the warp nacelles. I just may use that configuration for all my future designs

USS Hercules NCC-31800 Hercules Class Fast Attack Heavy Cruiser. Titan ( huge) Scale.

Comments most welcome.

Thanks Ed, I don't know how you see the Excelsior class in this design. I thought of it as more of a Sovereign class on steroids. I have a more cannon style custom design in the works. I had fits getting the warp nacelles on my newest custom design to look right. There are still a few parts with some of the symmetry off on the hard points. I'm glad we have off scaling.

Here is my first base design for a frigate.

Took a cue from Edladner and have put together some quick turrets.  One large and the other "point defence" (they are actually sitting on the point defence module).

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Quoting Edladner,

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I did the Excelsior Class in the Alpha two ship designer but Beta broke it. I was going to upgrade it and it was all grayed out in ship designer even after unlocking all tech. I was going to remake but I found it harder to do than my original design.

Mean while back the home world

example of how big the ship is

The Drengin decided to be a pain and switched their weapons, which meant I had to change my defences.  So I threw together some variants of my frigate based around the other defences.

The Armour variant.

And the Shield variant

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Here is a pet peeve I have about saving ships in the designer. I would like to be able to overwrite the old ship files when I am upgrading my ship. As of right now that feature is not available. I have to delete old ship designs after saving newer ones for the same ship. In GC2 we had the ability to overwrite designs of the same ship and I would like to see that feature in GC3 as well.

I would support the idea of when upgrading a ship to a newer design that instead of overwriting the old ship design it is included in a blueprint as the viable upgrade path. So next time you play you have the old version and as you unlock the new tech you get the new version automatically unlocked for you. Make it a path ship upgrade save. Thus, we can customize exactly how all our ships will upgrade on the path to empire dominance.

I guess I was thinking purely cosmetically--but you are 100 percent correct regarding functional changes. It would be nice to have some manner by which we can create an upgrade path.

The only area in which I think this will become tricky is when players decide to go with a different tech order. For example, if I start in a tiny galaxy, my tech order will probably be vastly different from what it would be in a large (or bigger) galaxy.

So if I didn't research sensors next (which would lead to ShipName M2 from a previous game), but instead I researched beam weapons, would the new ship be ShipName M23 (because M1-22 were used in my previous game)?

Not sure if we could have something like ShipName M2, ShipName M2-b, etc. where the difference from ShipName M1 to M2 (from hypothetical previous game) is better sensors, but in the new game the difference is beam weapons and not sensors (M2-b ).

Yes, but now they have the blue-print system. With a little bit of modding it can do it for you

The idea above was to allow for cosmetic as well as upgrade paths. As to the naming scheme, I would have the blue-print system set the naming scheme itself. Not saying it was perfect, but I know a certain sequence of ships that I want so I would like to be able to create that same sequence again if I so desire. If you have another sequence, it would be interesting to create multiple paths of ships. This is far to complicated in general, but they have a rough outline in their blue-print system right now. The type D battleships or the type L battleships and such. Not saying it is perfect, but it can be done.

Rand, it would be nice to allow the overwrite feature as well. The process is a little excessive at the moment, but then again we don't have to worry about names when we save the ships.

Your Star Trek style ships all look good. Could you try to do some Klingon ships with the Drengin parts / style?