I remember talking to LOAF about the weapons on the ships, and reading. The Hurricane has twin mass drivers, and then the Wildcat, twin lasers and twin mass drivers.
I don't like the idea of confed selling off military craft to the civilians myself. I don't see the US Military selling off its surplus F-14's, or other older craft to the Civvies. (I know citing the real world for Sci-Fi stuff is usually a no-no, but in this case I feel it works) I don't remember any WWII craft being sold to civilians either, with the exception of the trainers. Military stuff is generally dismantled, and that's that. Sure, it'd be fun...but, not going to happen.
The Wildcat, and new Hurricane (which hasn't been shown yet) designs I have to say are at this point final. A redesign of them is on our list o' suggestions. However, at this point, and remembering that one round of redesign has already taken place, we can't sit down and put our energies into another round of redesign for them now. We need to focus our energies on the last remaining ships, and then move onto the rest of our content, bases and the remaining cockpits being next on the list. Once we've knocked out the next block of content, we'll see about revisiting the Wildcat/Hurricane issue. To be honest, while i really, really love the original designs of the Wildcat and Hurricane, ultimately, they really did stick out like sore thumbs. Now, i did argue that since we don't really know what the confed design ethos of the McAuliffe era is, that its okay for them to do so. But ultimately, the art director does have final say, and consistency does have to win the day. There have to be those elements of design evident in the designs i create in order for everything to fit well with one another. That is where the Wildcat and Hurricane came from. I started with my original designs, and then did a little tweaking to arrive at what we've got now. Honestly, i do really like them both. If i do anything design wise on these two ships, i would more than likely return to the original designs (at a later date) and just block them out a bit more so as to make them fit with the WC1 look, whil preserving the 'character' as bob calls of, of my original wildcat and hurricane designs. But as i said, this is for a later date. We gotta continue moving forward, and not get bogged down in things we've already revisited.
I don't like the idea of confed selling off military craft to the civilians myself. I don't see the US Military selling off its surplus F-14's, or other older craft to the Civvies. (I know citing the real world for Sci-Fi stuff is usually a no-no, but in this case I feel it works) I don't remember any WWII craft being sold to civilians either, with the exception of the trainers. Military stuff is generally dismantled, and that's that. Sure, it'd be fun...but, not going to happen.
The Wildcat, and new Hurricane (which hasn't been shown yet) designs I have to say are at this point final. A redesign of them is on our list o' suggestions. However, at this point, and remembering that one round of redesign has already taken place, we can't sit down and put our energies into another round of redesign for them now. We need to focus our energies on the last remaining ships, and then move onto the rest of our content, bases and the remaining cockpits being next on the list. Once we've knocked out the next block of content, we'll see about revisiting the Wildcat/Hurricane issue. To be honest, while i really, really love the original designs of the Wildcat and Hurricane, ultimately, they really did stick out like sore thumbs. Now, i did argue that since we don't really know what the confed design ethos of the McAuliffe era is, that its okay for them to do so. But ultimately, the art director does have final say, and consistency does have to win the day. There have to be those elements of design evident in the designs i create in order for everything to fit well with one another. That is where the Wildcat and Hurricane came from. I started with my original designs, and then did a little tweaking to arrive at what we've got now. Honestly, i do really like them both. If i do anything design wise on these two ships, i would more than likely return to the original designs (at a later date) and just block them out a bit more so as to make them fit with the WC1 look, whil preserving the 'character' as bob calls of, of my original wildcat and hurricane designs. But as i said, this is for a later date. We gotta continue moving forward, and not get bogged down in things we've already revisited.