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Now, I might not be a regarded LDD builder at all (see notorious plagiarism issues from a few months back. Oops. ), but since starting the Rociante, my interest in LDD has dipped. I did build a pretty good Scythian destroyer (which has thankfully started a path to original ship building) and the Rociante appears to have some of your attention.

However, I do want to add more ships to the Emerian fleet. Problem time: I just have no clue how to start and where. Now, it might be bad play on my part, but I see something, get inspired, and build. Next problem is my book of tricks. Now, this is similar, except I use other's tricks (see Snake Mitten's Raptor frame (undergoing a redesign btw)), or develop my own tricks based on tricks by other builders, like this.

Should anyone have any ideas, please submit.

For everyone else, feel free to discuss such issues you might be having (this goes for LDD and IRL) now, or had int the past.

I was more or less in the same boat you were when I started work on my fleet (and in general, I'm not that great at coming up with original ideas). What I decided to do was to just pick a theme to work off of (in my case, Ironclad warships) and see how it worked out, and if that didn't work, pick another theme and keep trying. I'd suggest you try something similar. I think you've mentioned a few times that the Rociante is based off UNSC ships, so I'd suggest looking for more ships in that vein to be inspired by and work with. Off the top of my head, I think the Terrans, split, and Teladi from X3 have a very Halo-esqe aesthetic, and if those don't work out, I'd suggest looking at more UNSC ships, from concept art, fanart, and anything else you can find.

I've started most of my recent ships based on a single design requirement and built the rest around that- for example, I wanted the Heisenberg to incorporate a particle accelerator ring, the Curie to hold a shitton of fighter racks, the Faraday to mount that two-beam EMP death cannon, the Clairaut to have a pool with 360-view of space, etc.

Goddammit, I am completely stumped on building anything.
So, I think I'll just build shit for other factions and develop my skill set. I have Assyria on the brain.