Need inspiration for final tier spaceship

Heya Joost,

Well first of all, from your description I can't actually work out of the aliens you have designed already which fits into which? Where does the pink one with tentacles come into it? Is that a pig scary tier 4 purple one?

So yeah, firstly that, scondly one alternative you could do is add another type of alien graphic as "tier 0" and move everything else up - if you are truley stuck for ideas for even bigger and badder alien ships - try and go the other way: make tiny weeney harmless ones and shift the rest up! :D

Other than that: I would probably say scary faces with monster teeth - spikey zigzag style teeth to go on the shup body. If you can change the background - that would probably do a very good job of showing the ship as a mean one to "not mess with" maybe something simple like the traditional japanese rising sun burst effect:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?um=1&hl=en&biw=862&bih=743&noj=1&tbm=isch...

then you could dsign your ships just as anyold ship but the background would make it big and powerful - much in the same way that the silver ad gold tier 3 ships get their "power" from. Also, on this, are you actually going to get them printed in shiny gold and silver or are they going to be essentially grey and brown? Because if that is the case, they may well not come out quite right : perhaps you could simply recolour them globally (tier 1 = blue, tier 2=red, tier 3= green) etc

If you did this Probably best ot go with the TaiKwonDo belt colour system - makes sense: http://www.itf-information.com/information08.htm

white - innocence
Yellow - the earth
green - the growing plant
blue - the sky
red - "danger"
black - opposite of white

Alternatively and if you are all out of ideas do a google search on "concept spaceship" or something like "comic spaceship" and then borrow some design elements from them. On cursory glance I am getting: Spiky Bits, Big Rocket Boosters, Pointy Shapes etc

Hope I've helped :)

When I think of motherships I think of colossal size. The mothership could be so big that only part of the illustration fits on the tile. Or maybe it looks huge because there are tiny versions of other ships in the art for scale. The size would be enough of a distinguishing feature that you could base it off one of the other ship designs.

Or you could put spikes on it. :)

Not to nitpick, but shouldn't the final ship be the colonizing ship, not a big bad warship?