Excelsior Class

posted on July 6th, 2009, 10:02 am

Is the FO Excelsior the final version or a placeholder?

posted on July 6th, 2009, 10:52 am

It's a pretty good model, i cant see why it would need to be replaced...

[Tyler]

posted on July 6th, 2009, 10:56 am

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I never said it wasn't good, it just isn't nearly as good as some other FO ships, like the Descent or Galaxy (which isn't even the final, and is still better than the Excelsior).

[Adam_C]

posted on July 6th, 2009, 11:12 am

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nothing in F.O. is final   that's the beauty of beta or fan made persistently developed modifications. 

posted on July 9th, 2009, 1:47 pm

hm i like the excelsior, but we could take a second look at it but some other redos are on todo at the moment, first

posted on July 9th, 2009, 8:29 pm

Yeah I think currently Excelsior looks great! but it always has been one of my favorites so i'm partial. I think that the Veteran Excelsior should be the Enterprise B / Lakota refit. But that is for another thread 

posted on July 9th, 2009, 10:46 pm

Maybe it's just me, but i'd like to see the team make FO style (as in ships that look like the excelsior II or the remore) ships out of canon designs. Would help a lot with consistency and such.

posted on July 10th, 2009, 12:09 am

But Trek ships are not consistant in appearance...

posted on July 10th, 2009, 12:10 am

the colors(shade of white) seem to change in every ship. 

posted on July 10th, 2009, 12:21 am

True, but who said that the FO team couldn't make a consistent style for the federation? you see a consistent style on the borg, romulans, dominion...

posted on July 10th, 2009, 12:29 am

I'd prefer Federation ships being less consistant than other races. Starfleets 'style' changes constantly, a lot more than other empires.

posted on July 15th, 2009, 1:22 pm

Well... the Excelsior could use some more detail... I've seen Armada 1 models with major details it doesn't have...

posted on July 15th, 2009, 1:26 pm

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Well... the Excelsior could use some more detail... I've seen Armada 1 models with major details it doesn't have...

I agree, I use a replacement because of the shortage of detail (especially when compared to the Descent).

posted on July 22nd, 2009, 9:39 pm

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I agree, I use a replacement because of the shortage of detail (especially when compared to the Descent).

Excelsior has a smooth engineering section and saucer, with the exception of the ridges in the neck it has relatively few 'bumps'. The nacelles are long and sweeping. this is excelsior's style... plus it always had a unique blue-ish tint. I think it looks great.

posted on July 23rd, 2009, 12:29 am

But the problem is that the textures look rather "gray and foggy" right now whereas the original design didn't look like that.