TheColourOfHeartache

I just created by first space ship and here's various random thoughts that occurred to me through the process: The sliders for scale and rotation were quite tricky to get to the exact number I wanted. The ability to type would be helpful. Similarly an ability to click a piece, click clone and then click a new mount point to get one with the exact same values would be nice. So would a mirror button so if you wanted to have, e.g. a wing coming from

The Pkunk move was lovely, aliens making their own decisions like that is a must.

The Syreen, the Shofixti, and the Thraddash were at least somewhat human looking without having any connection to humanity; however Vaelzad is correct in that SC mostly has non-humanoid aliens. I noticed that the design document specifically ruled out humanoid aliens. I definitely think this was the right decision, though

Hello all. Pleasure to be here.

Looking at the picture in the first post, I see a striking difference between the rightmost planet and the other two. The right most one has polar ice caps, clouds, water, green islands. It's a cartoony exaggerated representation of a planet, but it's an exaggerated representation of a planet I could very much imagine existing in real life. In fact you could call it a cartoony representation of our own Earth, it's a bit too much water but otherwise it's home sweet home. <