Ok now I'm lost. Lemme see if I understand this..... Someone kitbashed a ship and named it after someone who plays SFC. Now Centaurus is honoring that with a new and far superior model that's true to the original design and people are upset ???? I must be missing something here. Heck if someone wanted to make a far superior model of one of my bashes ( and now someone is re-doing my Leyte Gulf with a far superior model and textures...coming soon.) I would be ecstatic, and am. As time goes bye and people get better at model making, even the one's we now consider "cutting edge" will in a few years be obsolete and we'll be redoing them as well. Reading the comments in this thread so far lead me to believe this isn't about the model, but the person's involved. I could be wrong on this notion but that's how I am percieving it. This Chabot refit is a great looking model, who wouldn't be proud to have their name on it ?
OK I'll shut up now lol
-MP
Actually, you're probably right on the past point, it's not so much now that the project was done, but who had done it, me.
I had wanted to avoid stating a few certain things, but now I have no choice.
Regardless what anyone thinks, this is cold, hard, fact. Several people were already planning to redo the Chabot, regardless if I was involved or not. The Chabot is a very well liked ship, but by today's standards, she's poorly built, and sooner or later, someone was going to redo her. I know several people that were already coming up with ideas that would have eventually led to a ship that looked nothing like the Chabot, but they would have done it, and released it, with the name of Chabot, without ever knowing the background or why the original was built, and this would have pissed off a number of people, the entire 9th fleet being the bulk of those people.
I had a choice, either get involved and pretty much do it on my own, or not. There was no preventing the project from being done, unless certain illegal and unethical actions were taken. Use your imagination about that one. So I did the project. I knew there was no stopping it. At the time when I started, I was the only member of the 9th with any kitbashing skills to speak of, and those members of the command staff in the fleet that asked me to take charge of this project knew it too. I also believe they knew what I am about to say now: If it had been someone else that had done this project, they would have done it without knowing why the original ship was built in the first place, and they wouldn't have cared. I knew what the ship stood for, knew what it meant, and everyone knew that I would do my best to make sure that what I ended up with would be the best effort to try and honor that concept, that ideal.
With that, I took charge of this project, and in doing so, alienated people on several fronts. I have received aggrivation over this ship far beyond the confines of this thread, and because of those early confrontations, my place within Outalance was placed in jeparody. In the end, I don't regret it. I had to make a choice, and if I had to make over again, I wouldn't change a thing.
Cold, hard, fact: Sooner or later someone would have done it. If it wasn't me, it would have been someone else. Chances are that someone else wouldn't have understood what the ship stood for, and would have done whatever they pleased to the ship, turning it into a virtual monstrosity, and slapping the name Chabot on it, and be done with it. I was a 9th officer, damned good one, and in essence, I was asked to make sure no one else would have turned the flagship of the 9th into a joke of a ship. For better or worse, I did just that. A friendship of mine was torn apart, but fortunately put back together again. A few other friendships nearly met the same fate, all because I chose to take control of this project, and make sure that the end result wouldn't be something ugly.
Any and all changes that were made were made after days, and in some cases months, of thinking and consideration. Even when some people were thinking about considering this ship to be the official Chabot, I said no, that this is a refit, and in no way intended to basically get rid of the original. I still stand by this, still say that this is a REFIT, the Mark 2.
Again, I made a choice, and I would make it again in a heartbeat.
What I find very ammusing is that certain members of the 9th, both active and retired, who have publically shown outrage for this refit, have actually praised it in private. Granted, this was before the WIP status was made public to the entire SFC modelling community. And these same people knew then that what they were seeing were the early stages of an update to the Chabot, and they knew that this was going to be a Chabot refit. It's ammusing that these same people now would bash the ship. Go figure.
I've gone through more aggrivation over this ship than anyone would even imagine, going against those individuals that wanted this ship redone so badly, and telling them that their ideas were not to be done because it would take away from the Chabot instead of adding to it. But still, I keep going on, and this ship will be released, as the Mark 2 Chabot. I've done too much, suffered too much, just to give in to peer pressure now.
To those to hate this ship, who oppose it, who think of it as disgraceful and disrespectful, keep this in mind: No one's forcing you to like it, and no one's forcing you to download it and use it. Just with every other ship that has ever come our way, each one of us can use it, or not.
As I have said repeatedly, I've gone through a lot of aggrivation over this ship, but I am going to see this ship released. After that, my bashing days are over. If ever I bash ships again, or make new ones, I will keep to myself. After this ship has been released, I am going to disappear.
Those of you that hate my guts, and I know who you are too, you can tear away at me as much as you like. Hell, you've already done so, not only over this ship, but over other issues as well. I'm too old and my body too worn out to continue fighting after this ship is done.
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