Prototype Midway Design

[Mindcrime]

Just another step towards the inevitable; a nursing home full of cranky old WingNuts arguing about the length of the dreadnaught

Lol! Yup!

 

[gr1mre4per]

It's 2.200 meters!!!!!

Now, where did I put that mop and bucket avatar?

 

[ChrisReid]

If there's no objections: I've extracted most of the meshes (including different level of detail variants) and their image files to OBJ format, I could pack them up and make them available for all?

Sure, that sounds good!

 

[Lt.Overload]

Extremely cool. This was one of those meshes that we were not able to view before? Because I sure don't recall ever seeing it, and I thought I'd seen pretty much any meshe that worked in WCP/SO .

It's not surprising, but still a bit sad that they cut this ship from the game. Obviously, with the Midway being a self-sufficient fleet-in-one, there was no need for any escort capships; presumably, there was also no time for them in the schedule, given that even the TCS Eisen never shows up in flight, in spite of its fighters being transferred to the Midway. But any time we encounter a ship that could have been in the game, there's always that feeling of loss - the universe could have been just a little bit richer. WCP seems to have had a couple of things like this. Even the Copernicus class science vessel that shows up in the intro, was also at least considered for a gameplay appearance, as did those little mining vessels, which of course we did eventually use in UE.

I wonder if there is any relationship between this one and the Plunkett cruiser. They don't resemble each other very much - really, there's very little resemblance at all - and yet, I can sorta imagine this ship evolving into the Plunkett, or perhaps both being initial drafts for a concept of a cruiser, and one of those concepts eventually getting the go-ahead for implementation into SO. Perhaps what we're seeing here is not a different ship that got cut, but simply a different, competing vision for what ended up being the Plunkett.

How quickly you forget. You put the model into your ship viewer years ago. We even discussed what the ship was, ranging from the Brack to a disabled capship, all ideas that you shot down mind you but still.

EDIT: Annnd you referred to this fact later in the thread. Whoops. I didn't read that far ahead before jumping the gun, sorry.