Aegis Hammerhead

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So what the fuck. From Sandi's FB:
https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/7g9i4i/calvin_williams_working_on_the_hammerhead/
https://imgur.com/r/starcitizen/oc4ndGd

This ship is WAY further along then I think any of us expected, especially considering that they now start ships from the interior and work out . . .
FUCK YES!

I was looking forward to seeing how much work had been done on the 890 Jump since its concept sale in Oct 10, 2014, but was disappointed.

I will have to assume that they plan to use the Hammer head in SQ 42 so that would explain why a new ship is being hammered out now.

on the bright side, as long as they don't remove the buy back system without warning, I can melt the 890 jump and use its store credits for other things.
 

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I was looking forward to seeing how much work had been done on the 890 Jump since its concept sale in Oct 10, 2014, but was disappointed.

I will have to assume that they plan to use the Hammer head in SQ 42 so that would explain why a new ship is being hammered out now.

on the bright side, as long as they don't remove the buy back system without warning, I can melt the 890 jump and use its store credits for other things.
I concur: must be a SQ 42 thing. That being said, I can't say that I have any complaints about that, whatsoever. I really want the HH, and I have no other ships a la the 890j or the BMM that I've been waiting for, soooooo yeaaaaaaah. GTG.

Side note: Anyone have any SA on what the loaner for the HH will be?
 

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I was looking forward to seeing how much work had been done on the 890 Jump since its concept sale in Oct 10, 2014, but was disappointed.

I will have to assume that they plan to use the Hammer head in SQ 42 so that would explain why a new ship is being hammered out now.

on the bright side, as long as they don't remove the buy back system without warning, I can melt the 890 jump and use its store credits for other things.
The Hammer being used in SQ42 would definitely make sense to me. I was disapointed with the segment on the 890J as well, because I expected that they would be much further. This being said, we know that they are basing a lot of the creative decisions of how it will be based on the 600i & they showed us a lot about that. I'm choosing to apply what they showed us of the 600i towards what the concept of the 890J was in hopes of getting a better mental picture of how it might turn out & I'm loving that image.

From personal past experiences in drafting & computer modeling using both AutoCADD as well as Revit, they can quickly design anything based on saved feature nodes that are shared with other designs. It is a lot like playing with Legos where you design the types of blocks you want, you can use them whenever you want & modify them however you want. They have shown us this time & again in the recent vids. Please, keep the faith, things will get better faster now that they have many of the major building blocks in place.

As far as them removing the buy back system, I don't see that happening before the full release of Beta at the earliest & they are a long way from that presently. Until this past CitizenCon, I had nothing in my buyback area & had bought most everything in cash. I plan on spending the next year gradually buying things out of that area as best I can so that should they announce that they will be removing that function soon, I won't be as stressed out. This being said, I still have many things that I plan on obtaining before that point & I'll be using that as a means to achieve those goals.
 

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Also- the Aegis assets (renders, particles, textures, etc etc) are all completely finished since CIG has been using them for the Tali, Idris, Javelin, Vanguard, etc etc. It makes sense that a ship where they share assets would be faster to complete than one that they're still working on the assets (ie 890J, 600i, BMM).

Plus it's probably in SQ42 since apparently it's a common screening ship for larger battle groups.
 

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Also- the Aegis assets (renders, particles, textures, etc etc) are all completely finished since CIG has been using them for the Tali, Idris, Javelin, Vanguard, etc etc. It makes sense that a ship where they share assets would be faster to complete than one that they're still working on the assets (ie 890J, 600i, BMM).

Plus it's probably in SQ42 since apparently it's a common screening ship for larger battle groups.
She's gunna be just oh so pretty while she's lighting up enemies of TEST for the IRS. Le sigh. So dreamy.
 

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The Hammer being used in SQ42 would definitely make sense to me. I was disapointed with the segment on the 890J as well, because I expected that they would be much further. This being said, we know that they are basing a lot of the creative decisions of how it will be based on the 600i & they showed us a lot about that. I'm choosing to apply what they showed us of the 600i towards what the concept of the 890J was in hopes of getting a better mental picture of how it might turn out & I'm loving that image.

From personal past experiences in drafting & computer modeling using both AutoCADD as well as Revit, they can quickly design anything based on saved feature nodes that are shared with other designs. It is a lot like playing with Legos where you design the types of blocks you want, you can use them whenever you want & modify them however you want. They have shown us this time & again in the recent vids. Please, keep the faith, things will get better faster now that they have many of the major building blocks in place.

As far as them removing the buy back system, I don't see that happening before the full release of Beta at the earliest & they are a long way from that presently. Until this past CitizenCon, I had nothing in my buyback area & had bought most everything in cash. I plan on spending the next year gradually buying things out of that area as best I can so that should they announce that they will be removing that function soon, I won't be as stressed out. This being said, I still have many things that I plan on obtaining before that point & I'll be using that as a means to achieve those goals.

In one way I am kinda glad that the 890 jump is far off, it gives me more store credits to play with, and it will save time with redesigns/buffs/nerfs down the road if the ship stats/design langue changes again.

I have a BMM to Hammerhead upgrade now so I am pretty happy that CIG made a large gun ship to deal with fighters. I still think the polaris has more features over all, but I will need to mine for weeks just to restock the torpedos ha ha.

I will start playing Star citizen when they finally introduce mining, as this will most likely be my primary income generator.
 

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Also- the Aegis assets (renders, particles, textures, etc etc) are all completely finished since CIG has been using them for the Tali, Idris, Javelin, Vanguard, etc etc. It makes sense that a ship where they share assets would be faster to complete than one that they're still working on the assets (ie 890J, 600i, BMM).

Plus it's probably in SQ42 since apparently it's a common screening ship for larger battle groups.

Its a relatively simple ship as well, its only got 4 rooms and 6 corridors.

Plus the Turrets are all identical, the hull its self isnt especially complicated. Should be simple enouh to knock it up quite quickly.
 

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I do not see how this ship can be in squadron 42 at least not the early episodes as it would have to be finished already since surely that's whats going to be in the xmas live stream.........
They could add it into later portions of SQ42 as escort ships for the fleet Caps where you don't actually go in as they are NPC controlled & operated for the larger scale battles.
 
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