SF references

[terrannz]

When starting Rebirth you can hear "it's full of stars" if you haven't pressed escape when the egosoft logo comes on screen.

Ship yards had been bothering me until last night when I was at an HoA shipyard waiting for them to finish building an arwan so I could order a ship for myself and I flew around for a bit...

http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/schem ... screen.jpg

[vr01]

Your picture is getting blocked by that website. It redirects to http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/blocked.gif

[terrannz]

ah clever, they don't allow side loading. I guess it saves their bandwidth.

I've copied the picture
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxpjUQ ... sp=sharing

[spankahontis]

ah clever, they down allow side loading. I guess it saves their bandwidth.

I've copied the picture
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxpjUQ ... sp=sharing

Yeah it's called hot-linking, most sites do it to save bandwith.

Those construction cradles look awesome, more wider than the ones in X-Rebirth.

[BigBANGtheory]

XR seems to follow a more Battlestar Galactica influence, the shipyard design for that can be seen here:

http://media.battlestarwiki.org/images/ ... -Close.jpg

[exogenesis]

Good topic

I reckon there's several recognisable SF film/game/book influences

Everything from Blade Runner style music snippets,
to minor ship design borrows, probably unavoidable really, StarTrek / BattleStar / Babylon

Always was such in X,
starting with Elite rotating docking, a la 2001 movie
& going on...

Would be interesting to make a list,
every time you notice something, jot it down.

[Lander1979]

Everything from Blade Runner style music snippets

Not just the music, the first time I went to Omicron Lyrae, I was in Blade Runner Heaven, from the design of the stations to the way the local ship traffic and police vehicles look and act, I immediately felt like I was piloting a Blade Runner Police Spinner. I'm in love with X-Reunion for giving me this experience, It's something I've yearned for since I was a child. I always wondered what the offworld colonies would look like (remember the big blimp?), and for me, this was it! (and if I ever see a 'Roy Batty' model NPC on a station I'll probably S$$T My pants).

[Earth Ultimatum IV.]

Also Arawn looks like Battlestar Galactica... Except for that frontal hangar. But it looks better with it, so I don't argue.

[terrannz]

Everything from Blade Runner style music snippets

Not just the music, the first time I went to Omicron Lyrae, I was in Blade Runner Heaven, from the design of the stations to the way the local ship traffic and police vehicles look and act, I immediately felt like I was piloting a Blade Runner Police Spinner. I'm in love with X-Reunion for giving me this experience, It's something I've yearned for since I was a child. I always wondered what the offworld colonies would look like (remember the big blimp?), and for me, this was it! (and if I ever see a 'Roy Batty' model NPC on a station I'll probably S$$T My pants).

It would follow suit as Edward James Olmos was in both BSG and BladeRunner so it would be a natural progression.
Have you ever joined the traffic stream at a station?

[AdánPasos]

I agree with the Blade Runner association, and I also thought about it when I saw the police ships for the first time.

Said that, I'd like if XR had the stations a bit more "dark" and "cyberpunk" to make the game look even more like Blade Runner. And yeah, a bit more adult-oriented connotations. I don't mean vulgarity, I mean REAL connotations, not the stupid and vulgar comments as the "I'll show you everything, I mean EVERYTHING".

For instance, I'd like if the disco pub had more people, perhaps drinking. Is this a game for children or what? Right now it's like if they were empty, like if drinking was banned. Where are all the people? And the holograms... need a lot of rethinking IMO. I don't think they must be desexualized (most cyberpunk movies as Blade Runner are not desexualized) but it'd be cool if they were more realistic. They dance like if they were crazy.

[terrannz]

definitely need a darker interior and more people in the bar.
This visual mod makes ships and stations darker and more metal looking on the outside

X-Rebirth Re-imagined
http://www.nexusmods.com/xrebirth/mods/322/?