A side effect of the development kit (Destiny)

by Kahzgul, Wednesday, May 13, 2015, 14:54 (3719 days ago) @ Durandal

That dev kit setup is really clever, allowing for guarantees that items fit into Poly budgets, and it makes sense for armor. But why do all spaceships have two wings, one front pod, a middle box, and an engine/back pod? It seems to me that they designed the ships to have fixed locations for connecting each element, which means the middle "box" section can't be long and thin or tall or really anything but a square with different sorts of doodads hanging off of it. I'd love to see the boxes dictate where the different other elements attached and at what angles. You'd get lots more variety.

Also, since you have modular ship design, why can't players take their ships to the shipbuilder and modularly design their ships???

And why does Birth of History still have its back section misaligned so as to create a giant poly hole in the middle? It's been this way since the first Iron Banner!