Fancy staring at some pixel spaceships this morning to weigh in on the latest Star Citizen drama? ‘Course you do. The ship on display today is Star Citizen’s Vulture, the latest concept ship that’s been teased all week.
The problem, as multiple Reddit and Twitter threads have pointed out, is that the ship looks really freakin’ similar to an EVE Online ship: the Venture mining frigate.
It’s certainly possible that the artists were inspired by the same source material; it’s not as if pincer/forklift combine type vehicles are unheard of. That hasn’t stopped both Star Citizen and EVE Online players from mapping the ships onto each other and calling shenanigans.
We’ve reached out to CIG for comment and will report back when we hear more.
Star Citizen is releasing a new ship called the "Vulture". You sure are taking some artistic liberties there @RobertsSpaceInd… what do you think #tweetfleet? Looks pretty similar… #notmyspaceshipgame #doubletake pic.twitter.com/KaEgwHzXW8
— The Judge (@_TheJudge) June 14, 2018
