Contest: From concept to creation (July: Ambassador)

Welcome to the second Concept to Creation contest! CTC 2.

WHAT: I will post concept art. It is simply an idea, a starting point.
WHEN: Deadline will be Monday, July 27th. Edit: extended until the end of August!
WHY: For fun
WHO: Verbal vote which lasts for a week after the deadline. We are all judges. I may adjust this depending on how June's plays out.
RULES:
100% stock
no size or weight restriction, but if it melts my computer I might not be fair on it.
survival capable (o2, conveyored, etc)
post as blueprint preferred.

Actual voting criteria will differ based on who's voting, what his/her priorities are, and how your craft differs from what they had in mind.

CONCEPT:
Our sales guys got a lead on a great opportunity. It's for some high ranking government official who isn't happy with what's available on the market, he wants something "off the shelf" but is considering custom made because he doesn't like what's out there. Everything seems too small or too big, or just doesn't have the right features. I know one-offs aren't the most profitable for us but if we get our foot in the door it could mean some serious business with their military and support fleet, in addition to being seen by the governments he visits with.

This is what he's looking for:

-Something that looks different, refined, sophisticated. Not an intimidating military style or dirty asteroid worker.
-Docking space for at least one planetary shuttle.
-Private quarters and office for the official. Office should be capable of comfortably holding a meeting with a few people.
-Guest quarters for at least two.
-The primary and guest quarters should not share air space with any reactors or noisy equipment.
-crew of at least 3 pilots and a chef, with crew quarters.
-long range capable.
-Should not be defenseless, but for diplomatic reasons visible weapons should be kept to a minimum. Preferably one of the pilots would use a fighter to direct conflict away from the high profile personnel. We have to assume they are elite pilots.
-Maintenance tools should also be neatly tucked away, out of view from the guests.

We have this picture, the sales guy sketched it in his page of notes. Based off a smaller craft that the official liked the looks of but was undersized for the task at hand. It seems like a good starting point.

Edit:
Should contain at least 1 jump drive
Contest extended thru August.

 

Resisting... urge.... to say... 1st...
Dang it.

Anyways, this contest seems... interesting. I intend to give this one a go as well.

 

It's pretty much what I thought it would be. Good clue!

No intimidating military look. Damn, I was going to do an assault Corvette variant with the same chassis. Oh well, I'll see what I can do.

 

ohh this is interesting. I have already sketched a few ideas of my own for things I want to include in this. And a rough layout that actually is similar to the picture this time....


Now just how many complex mechanisms can I include in this???????

 

Working on something now.

 

[QUOTE="Carrion, post: 1286793901, member: 2354681"Now just how many complex mechanisms can I include in this???????[/QUOTE]

As many as you see fit! Although it appears that this design could just as easily have no moving parts at all..

 

Nvm, I tried to exact the sketch and it looked horrible. Im going to try another route and keep the general idea but with my recent style.

 

All good! We had quite a bit of variety in the last one, most excellent.

 

As many as you see fit! Although it appears that this design could just as easily have no moving parts at all..[/QUOTE]
But but but where is the fun in that?

the wibbleneering division of DSE is having a massive party with all the things they are working on. the Crazy has been unleashed

 

Omg, stop! I have other games to play! This is better than the last sketch, i really like it but it's too much work to do the ship and then judge all the participants, and i have more games, and i have to work ... but i want to do it!!!

 

I may have to take a swing at this one.

@AutoMcD any preference on a small grid or large grid?

 

@Swanicus You will have to use a large grid because vanilla small grids can't have oxygen sealed rooms, which this ship requires. Otherwise,

 

See. This is something I'm constantly unsure about. Because any small grid ship I have always shows oxygen in the room. I've just never actually taken a helmet off whil using them in survival.

Large ships are more comfortable for me anyway.

 

I was going to go with a diplomatic courier as a small ship, when I first saw this sketch, but it seems this one will need to be a large ship....

On the plus side I should be able to make it so that it doesn't spontaneously disassemble like my earlier ideas for this one.

 

Question: In your sketch is the left hand image the Top view and the right hand image the Front?

 

Yes

 

@Sentinel-Ghost @AutoMcD

But it doesn't have to be, does it?

 

You got it.

 

AAAhhhhhhhhh

Ok so asymmetrical design has been something I have wanted to try, but have never succeeded with, well at least not to my liking. I equally hate and love you for taking me out of my comfort zone AutoMcD

 

Well my entry is starting to take shape quite well. and its not a box which is freaking me out.

 

I've gotten hung up on the size of the shuttle....and subsequent hanger deck

 

Well, we don't know what it is, or what the other diplomats will use.. Just assume average size small ship.
Like.. looking at my ships, it would be larger than Mini but have no reason to be larger than Hanz.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=418563814

 

Oh ok, I was trying to fit a Large ship shuttle...simply because you can't pressurise a small ship shuttle (equipped with seats)

 

I have a question. Would an ambassador wear a space suit?

 

This is kind of a luxury ship with it's own dedicated pilots. We would like to inconvenience the guests as little as possible.

 

CEU Ambassadors are highly respected citizens. They do not piss in a bag.

No spacesuits will be required for my submission, I like a challenge.

 

@iN5URG3NT

i have a challenge for you then, make an extendable, but also 02 sealed docking connector to allow it to dock to a large station

 

No. I think that is unnecessary complication. The competition is looking for a shuttle craft and large stations have hangars.

 

So as a guy completely new to posting my creations, here is my first attempt. Critiques are always welcome.

So, uhhh, yeah... I've had a chance to go and look at what I'd done and lets just call this a poor first pass at what I want...

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=476791992

Steelhelix

 

I'll try to make something for this contest, but not sure to get enough time for that... I already have an idea for the docking area that could be interesting to develop (if doable, the prototype is still in my head ^^).