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[Cmdr Daefaron]

 

From Escalation, looks likes an energy projector main gun, with a bunch of turrets around the ring of the station...

[Stephan-338]

It's the glassing beam of a CCS turned into a turret

[Metanator]

Please, Mr Unikraken, can we have one? Its ever so pretty with its death beams and its rape lasers.

[Unikraken]

Okay, so I've read the comic now and I'm going to give you a series of opinions.

 

First of all, what my team will say:

1. Our balance is completely based on the Covenant having no defense turrets and would require a lot of work to add in and remove some of the factional distinctiveness.
2. This could be something gerry-rigged or something brought about post-schism.

So next, what my modelers will say:

1. I could potentially model this, but it would be at the bottom of a very long list as our plates are already pretty full.

Now what my only Covenant texture artist will say:

1. Sure, I can texture this, but it would be at the bottom of a very long list of things that need my attention and I honestly don't like it.

Now my opinion:

1. Our balance is completely based on the Covenant having no defense turrets and would require a lot of work to add in and remove some of the factional distinctiveness.
2. This could be something gerry-rigged or something brought about post-schism.
3. My resources are already stretched pretty far trying to do things we've already committed to.
4. We have no idea if this is a one-off station or something common, because the UNSC in the comic had no idea what it was and knew so little they literally jumped beside it just to check it out.
5. I could go on but I think you see where I'm going with this.

I'm not saying "no", I'm just saying "I can't have the team devote any time to it right now and I doubt we ever do".

[Unikraken]

Though the look of the station will likely inspire other Covenant stations we really need.

[Aunt Gruntie]

Its very reminiscent of Nod's Obelisk of Light.

I could see it has the Cov's starbase....maybe...

EDIT: after looking at it again i noticed that is about the size of the corvette, sooo its a tad unimposing as far as a starbase would be concerned.

[macabrenoob]

I think it would almost ruin the play of the game, the unsc need the addvantage of being the only faction so far with defenses.

[Crisiss]

Its very reminiscent of Nod's Obelisk of Light.

I could see it has the Cov's starbase....maybe...

EDIT: after looking at it again i noticed that is about the size of the corvette, sooo its a tad unimposing as far as a starbase would be concerned.

Oh god, walls of those in C&C3 were great.

[Bornstellaris]

Honestly, it's not even that great of a design. Very plain and simple with quite a few hard edges. For me, it just doesn't fit the bill of what a Covenant station should look like.

[Unikraken]

I think it'd work fine as a research station or something of that nature.

[Cmdr Daefaron]

I figured that response, I felt like putting it forth incase you all hadn't seen it.

[Lavo]

How's about having it being part of a future Cov star base? They could appear to be in orbit of the SB, perhaps with some wires hooked up between it and the station, to act as it's primary weapons. Plus, if it uses a beam weapon, it won't look strange at all!

[Unikraken]

The exclamation point makes me wonder if this is sarcasm. It's too late to for me to pick up on it if it is.

[Zero]

Now what my only Covenant texture artist will say:

1. Sure, I can texture this, but it would be at the bottom of a very long list of things that need my attention and I honestly don't like it.

JOKES ON YOU SUCKA

[Unikraken]

JOKES ON YOU SUCKA

 

My second point from you was going to be that you'd already made another one, but I didn't want noobs asking about it and why it wasn't in the mod.

[Zero]

Add it to a list of cut content on the wiki.

[SPECTRE]

For once i'm going to go against community and go with devs on this one.

I think it would be nice to put it in, but it would just plain be OP.

[Stephan-338]

Not only would it be OP, I don't think that station is a regular occurrence 

[SPECTRE]

Not only would it be OP, I don't think that station is a regular occurrence 

That too. Kind of like monitors in the great wars, just strap the biggest guns we can find and put them on a ship the size of a cruiser.

[JasonAHawkins]

I understand that Super Weapons have been eliminated from both UNSC and Covenant teams, but why not make this their Novalith Cannon? Not saying it should be able to glass from afar just saying have a extremely expensive tactical slot hog that could provide a semblance of defense for the Covies.