The construction of ships and structures should have pre-rendered designs to better demonstrate the progress.

The idea is very basic. Simply, instead of the structures and ships appearing to be built from the bottom up, they could have a better visual representation where you see a process where first a scaffolding is shown, then a skeleton, and then the components are added. It doesn't have to be animated, it will simply be a series of images that change every time 1/5 of the process is complete, so that would be 5 stages rendered.

 

Stage 1: Scaffolding.

Stage 2: Construction of the skeleton.

Stage 3: Complete skeleton.

Stage 4: Added some modules and components, with very mechanical appearances (as if they don't have the armor and external components yet)

Stage 5: Ship/complete structure.

 

Example image:

 

Vea un lapso de tiempo de Boeing construyendo el Dreamliner

Ship Construction GIF by bsurfn2day | Gfycat

Another spectacular example here:

I guess this would only apply to structures, flagships, and titans. I understand that it would be a very tedious job, but it would be worth it. Thank you.

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A good idea but one that would have a computer cycle cost as well as a modding cost. Right now any modded ship is simple to show building because the model is simply taken and slowly rendered to 100%. If we had scaffolding for each ship that scaffolding would need individual scaffolding animations for each modded ship. 

I think it may be better just to show the dock workers being more active and moving cranes and such?

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I've updated to put some new examples. You can see how the USS Enterprise of Star Trek ship is assembled. It's a good example.

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It is appreciated that the boats now leave the shipyard, but I would like something much more stylized.

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Quoting Sujeto-X523, reply 3

It is appreciated that the boats now leave the shipyard, but I would like something much more stylized.

 

They've always been shown to leave the shipyards, even since the first Sins.

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Planetary Annihilation did this well with its 3D printed models.

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Quoting Sujeto-X523, reply 6

"PA"?

 

Planetary Annihilation. Edited for clarity. 

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¿Estás seguro? Recuerdo que aparecieron en el exterior de los astilleros una vez que estuvieron terminados.

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Quoting Sujeto-X523, reply 8

¿Estás seguro? Recuerdo que aparecieron en el exterior de los astilleros una vez que estuvieron terminados.

English please.

From memory, yes. I remember Ants trundling out of vehicle factories.