15:40:59 [Dev]Gideon: "It actually makes me sad to see ruff's pics."
* [*TS*]Axianda *XO* waves to [Dev]Gideon...

15:43:40 [*TS*]Axianda *XO*: "so what you think of the ICC drawing he made gid"

15:43:56 [Dev]Gideon: "Makes me sad, because we've already stated several times that people who start supplying ship designs before the design contest will have those designs disqualified."

15:44:12 [Dev]Gideon: "Because we do NOT want to start a flood of designs, as we are nowhere near prepared for it."

15:45:05 [Dev]Gideon: "Yeah, I looked at it."
15:45:07 [Dev]Gideon: "They're good pics."

15:45:12 [Dev]Gideon: "A few concerns."
15:45:55 [Dev]Gideon: "First one is too phallic. I want to go AWAY from phallic for UGTO, not towards it more. Looks more like a space dildo than the battle dread, and that's bad."
**bad giddy **

15:46:40 [Dev]Gideon: "The ICC one is good, but I have some other concerns about it."
15:46:48 [Dev]Gideon: "Like poly count..."
15:47:09 [Dev]Gideon: "Also, I was kind of hoping that the ICC ships would be arranged a bit more vertically, and less horizonatlly."

15:47:59 [Dev]Gideon: "Length would still be the primary dimention."
15:48:18 [Dev]Gideon: "Also, the outboard engines on the ICC ships...I was hoping we could move away from the outboard engine look."
15:48:29 [Dev]Gideon: "Because it's too...Star Trek-ish."
15:48:43 [Dev]Gideon: "However, that having been said..."
15:48:51 [Dev]Gideon: "I DO like the ICC carrier cruiser drawing he did."

15:49:14 [Dev]Gideon: "Few too many launch ports on it (carrier cruiser still only has four launch catapults, not eight)."

15:51:29 [*TS*]Axianda *XO*: "Gid what if he removes the picture, will you consider it then?"
15:51:31 [Dev]Gideon: "Yes, he did a good job capturing the faction feel and theme."
15:51:55 [Dev]Gideon: "In truth, it would probably make no difference whether he removed them or not."


15:52:49 [Dev]Gideon: "What we want to avoid, is people making submissions early, and thusly discouraging other people from submitting, or imposing their own design philosophy on others, because others think it looks nifty."
15:53:09 [Dev]Gideon: "We want people to be as original as possible, not to start following someone else's lead on designs."
15:53:19 [*TS*]Axianda *XO*: "you mind if i post that in the topic?"
15:53:20 [Dev]Gideon: "THAT is what we are trying to avoid."
15:53:29 [Dev]Gideon: "You go right ahead."
15:53:51 [Dev]Gideon: "The designs he submitted would be concidered, just the same, on an equal footing with other people's submissions."
15:57:17 [Dev]Gideon: "Anyways, I just want to avoid people starting to copy a design theme and style from any one person."



15:59:28 [Dev]Gideon: "Another thing ruff might want to keep in mind."
15:59:48 [Dev]Gideon: "Is that even for submissions we accept, the actual design might change significantly between submission and release."
16:00:01 [Dev]Gideon: "And we may incorporate aspects from several different submissions into a single model."


16:02:03 [Dev]Gideon: "Anyways, Axi, that having been said, ruff's work is VERY impressive, and I look forward to more of it."
16:02:14 [Dev]Gideon: "Oh, and the K'Luth will not be getting a dedicated carrier ship. "