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Because they had better graphics overall. Especially sinclair's men ship. Probably that one was meant to be the elite ship in the original version of the game(cca 2005-2006) but they changed to that lame one. Also riot king was pretty good, and that gold one(used by rackham men). The rest of elite ship designs are simply too unreal. especially the level 21-22 ones. It doesn't match with anything that is in the reality. There was never designed a wooden ship with one big cannon in the middle irl. They might as well make a flying steam ship and it would have been more real than that.
The gold ships were more beautiful overall, than the elite ship designs from level 5 up.
the ones up to level 5 were pretty decent, I liked their design. But irl nobody would have the time to design their ship like that. Bugpoint games always had the tendency to make their game inconsistent and unreal.
Now you don't find the gold ships anywhere, you just find the ugly elite ship design, if you even find those nowadays so easily. Personally I liked the more realistic approach of the game. Rather than this unreal whatever.. same with darkorbit, they had "battlecruisers" looking like starfighters. which is whole another class. only bigboy looked somewhat like a battlecruiser. goliath too but the 2008-2010 version only. rest is rubbish. i don't know why they hate their game like that. It is simply unrecognizable, it's like an eve online wannabe, and a bad replica. people used to joke that turning DO into 3d would have made it more like eve online back in 2008-2010/ They never predicted how it would turn out like this however... Simply bugpoint greed of money. what a shit corporation. Tho some of their employees did a good job back in 2005-2006 when they were designing it.. Originals died with the changing of serena sprite to the modern gay one(idk when, I quit after 2011-12) or introducing the retarded pusat design, just for moneyz. I never liked any of the ship redesigning they forced in 2010 july.they looked like some retarded toys or something. Only goliath enforcer had some realistic tint. But we'll talk about this in another thread.
Probably their employees in the art section forgot how to make good job. because the majority of their sprites look like fucking toys for children, not real spaceships or anything. I'd recommend star citizen for a similar approach in how to make real starships. Really liked the shaderz in the first DO game. (one up to 2011) that was the heart of the game actually. They butchered the face when they introduced those horrenderous cheap sprites or redesigning/refacktoring whatever they called it back then. Because there's no archive of it. they deleted everything before 2013. even the chat reports lol. and they were funny as hell.
Not even having an UFE accoutn makes me play this game as I played once. or a FE sf ship wahtever. their games are pretty simlar you know. DO came second after SF. this is why you had pearls for ships or gold. it was in beta.
It's quite sad this happening. And I am now searching for old DO graphics/buttons, overview page, simialr for SF. I don't like the new layout. it's not the original anymore.
Note: Even searching in web.archive you won't find the original serena/or monster sprites. Heck you won't even find the tiamat one. it's hard. all of the SF forum before 2013 wasn't archived. you find only bulshit there./ the monster page wasn't saved. I know because I looked everywhere.
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