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Love the asymmetric design Olrox and think it will work-out quite well for ground units, however -
You brought this up yourself, Olrox, and i agreed at the time and still do - Vtols should have their own dedicated bodies because of aerodynamic considerations (with H2O naval bods the symmetry would be invoked for performance slicing through water instead of atmosphere as I know you are well aware of being a student of sound earth-bound engineering.
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SIDE Bar for Non-Artists: Generally when an artist is asking for feedback they are asking for your impressions as possibilities or suggestions that may or may not carry much weight in the final act of creation. They are NOT asking to be told what to create as if they were indentured servants.
When you are creating in the context of a MOD you can do whatever the frack you are willing to work-out by sheer applied talent, skill, vision, knowledge and fortitude. Non-artists tend to not understand the expression *Atlas Shrugged* when it comes to anything in the world they inhabit that was first created by an individual where no such existed before that creative act (& stuff inherited, like indoor plumbing or refrigeration were originally acts of creation involving artistry regardless of their practical application. Folks like Thomas Edison or Tesla were as much artists as Picasso & Monet and then of course there are those like Leonardo whose artistry encompassed master paintings as much as breakthrough engines of war).
And by the way, the "official" canon is nothing more really than a collection of mods by way of hegemonic consensus that may or may not represent a majority in a democratic sense.
Much of what we take for granted as obvious common sense and logical today was anything but just a few generations back in time.
The great Nobel Prize winning British philosopher, mathematician, logician & political activist Bertrand Russell, had a few things to say of relevance here:
"Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so."
"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite."
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible."
"No great achievement is possible without persistent work."
"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it's still a foolish thing."
"Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise."
"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."
"One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."
"Language serves not only to express thoughts, but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it."
"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere, like that of a sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trapping of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry."
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
"Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed."
"Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile."
"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."
"Mirth is like a flash of lightening that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity."
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."
Regards, whip
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