I only woke up a couple of hours ago, so I’m going to keep this one pretty brief.

Some of the experiments I ran on Prinz Heinrich have been fully implemented on the Admiral Hipper, chief among them being subgrids. Despite how many it’s using, the ship is still stable. There is some trouble I’m having, though, and not the kind of trouble I want to deal with this late in a build.

It’s not a problem with Hipper, but with Heinrich. As close as the ship is to being ‘finished’, compared to the Hipper, it’s just not holding up anymore. My skills are improving and it’s really starting to show between these two ships.

Even the bridge designs are worlds apart.

Now it has to be said here that as a part of the Heinrich’s lore, it’s one of the oldest hulls in the fleet that’s still in active service. I don’t mind the ship looking ‘worse’ than the newer designs. What’s bothering me more is the difference in overall style. I’m calling the current Hipper the ‘Admiral Hipper II‘ because it’s the second version. The older one was coming along well enough and it was more in line with the Heinrich, but along with only being able to carry its fighters externally, it had a few other flaws I just couldn’t tolerate in the end.

The Admiral Hipper II takes her design cues from Star Blazers ships, making her bulkier, more rounded, and a lot more modular. The Prinz Heinrich is a 10 times now modified D-37 Timberwolf. She’s also built around a specific mod that I no longer use.

All of this rambling to say that I’m not sure if I should try to finish the Heinrich as is or do another overhaul. The Cosmo Messer’s going up on the workshop as soon as I figure out how that works, but I can’t say I’d be thrilled to see the Heinrich on there in anything near the state she’s in now.

I have to give this some more thought, but right now I’m really hoping I can come up with some improvements to the exterior to give the ship a less ‘slapped together’ look.