Long ago, when the word 'Hiigara' rang only as a hollow dream, the kiith of Kharak never imagined they would walk the Path to Victory. But, when they reclaimed their Homeworld and proclaimed themselves 'Hiigaran', they believed they had reached their goal. How wrong they were. 150 years after Hiigaran landfall, conflict rages across the Galaxy... Path to Victory is a multiplayer and skirmish mod for Homeworld 2 that adds new units to both Vaygr and Hiigaran Races as well as enabling the Keepers, Raiders and Kadeshi as playable races.
The Garden must be tended to! And that is the task we entrust in our Gardeners. Maintain the garden. Tend the garden. Let the garden flower...
Well, not quite.
That's what these little ships used to do before the Kadeshi got forced out of their nebula. Now the gardener has been reworked to mine asteroids and recover debris from the battlefield to be processed into RUs.
The gardener is a pretty bad resource collector when compared to other races. This stems from the fact that it was never intended as a mining ship and thus can not carry much in its cargo pod.
The gardener however does still tend, but not the garden. It can repair friendly ships (thank god those nifty cargo pods also come with spare parts!).
Anyways, this is the kadeshi resource collector. Enjoy.
Sidenote: This has to be the oddest ship I've ever modeled. No clue why but making it felt really strange.
Well i like it, its only the container is bugging me a lil. i cant put my finger on it but it seems a bit out of place... but over all you did a really good job :)
The container has an odd shape and hangs out of the ship at a weird angle. I'm aware of that and I just can't think of any shape that would fit better (i tried needle shape, fully round shape etc. This looked best)
And thanks ;)
did u ever try the concept i sent u?
I did, the spike however was not fitting for such a small ship so I improvised something else.
How about an egg shape which is squeezed to be flatter on the left and right, which means it elongates up and down slightly so juts up and down behind the cockpit area dorsally and ventrally?
It looks like a bee or a wasp haha, but it still looks Kadeshi, the only thing that bugs me about it is that the container can be coloured, I'd have it the same colour as the rest of the ship tbh
I guess, it should be more similar to the bee. With "sparrows" (similar elements) and little "legs" (see the original fuelpod) around resource laser.
I think if it went that way it wouldn't look so kadeshi anymore but I guess I could try it. As for the container, I know it's odd being colored but that way the ship is identified as a collector. Without the color, it would look like a corvette or fighter or something.
truthfully i like this design, but im goting to thow an idea and see if it sticks.
what if you take one swarmer and remove its entire gun area, split the engine and move both to the backs of the lil bumps that the swarmer has, then enlogate the area where the engine was to the tail (without moving the tail) and make that look like a rectangular container. and then use the collecter tube thing you have here in the place where the gun was.
im not saying this is bad, its only a random idea that poped into my head when i was thinking about the container perdicament.
It's actually quite an interesting idea. Took me a moment to get what you mean but yeah, that would work. If I have time (and the nerves) I'll make the model sometime and see which one comes out better.
Reminds me of various insects, it suits the whole insect-ish vibe of the Kadeshi.
Like that idea!
Hmmm... is the poor RU load a key design feature for your Kadeshi ResCols? If not, then I think adding a second or even third storage pod may be the right direction to take with this. But I always thought the kadeshi would have much larger collectors that would have the exact opposite characteristics you mentioned in the description. ~the size of a frigate or larger, high RU storage capacity, faster harvesting speed (but because of the larger storage, it takes longer to have a full load), high health, slow speed, maybe it instantly transfers the RU's to your RU bank, etc. etc. If you go for a total design change, you may want to look to starfish or horseshoe crab, or maybe even catfish
I was thinking the kadeshi live in nebulas and harvest those, meaning they're not used to harvesting asteroids or large scale mining ops. They didn't need them previously so it's something new to them, thus the small ship. It's an intentional design that will lead to the kadesh needing more collectors - and thus more asteroid groups to mind.
I think the problem is the container is symmetrical vertically when the rest of the ship is not. You could probably scoop it a little bit from underneath to match the angle of the ship. Also maybe the mining tool could be a little more pronounced, or are you going for a high tech ideal?
Also you could try a 3 pod setup in the back that would look like a flower in arrangement. When it is empty it is in "budding stage" and when it goes to release its RU supply back to the mothership it "blooms".
It looks very waspish. this is good
Alteenatively you could play with the "Needle" Aesthetic but inverted, to bring more of a Hummingbird or Mosquito look, have the Needle on the front basically....