How tough would it be to buy advertising around certain stations? I would love to set something up around Corvus stations.

Since there isn't a method for doing that, it would be "rather tough"

avdertise in the news or rp forum

the idea was just for ingame advertising in GTS like "TGFT Samoflange best ever", or "When it needs destroyed call ONE" stuff like that.

Perhaps a better, or at least more practical approach, would be to put ads in the news bulletins that are available at all stations. With the exception of the daily trade reports most of that stuff is garbage, and out of date garbage at that.

Ads should be real and limited to in game matters. For example “For the best prices on hive batteries and weapons---freshly plucked from the black heart of space, see Acme Space Outfitters.” Or “experienced tail gunner available for hire.” That sort of thing.

I agree with lensman67. If you are looking for a solution soon, post here: http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/7/21819

Kindly keep it to things that might actually occur. "When it needs destroyed call ONE" would be fine. Offers for space cow rentals might be too confusing.

I agree. We need to make more use of the News tab, as most of the entries are several years old. It would be nice to see it become more useful.

Also, I propose that people post the NW and GW events in there :-p

Offers for space cow rentals might be too confusing

IIRC the gray team rented several space cows to help them win the most recent Nation War. What's so confusing about that?

I will make ads for you, Raven (on the forums if ye like) in exchange for ingame credits.

Hosting the images is up to you, though.

I've got plenty of VO references, ask around.

You guys are totally missing the point. I fly around the stations and see stuff like "Sandar, first in ship repairs", "Cha powerful weapons" There's even a sign on some stations that says "damn". That's what I'm talking about. I'm talking about putting funny, serious, or whatever signs around the stations.

Yes I can read GTS.

You could even add graffiti like "CHRN was here", or "VPR SUKS"

Right now, creating those signs is a gargantuan pain in the ass.

It is totally doable to have some in-game construct that allows someone to submit content for in-game advertising in GTS, which, after approval, can then be auto-assembled and posted to some pre-existing spot. However, it would not be a trivial thing to make, and we have bigger fish to fry at present. In general, I'm all for more extensive use of floating ads and stuff, around stations.

Aside from that, I'm not sure how many people would actually read them. But I agree it would be kind of neat, and in-context, and make for a more dynamic environment.

In anticipation of player owned cap ships and stations, a mechanism for custom hull text should be developed.

That's really a very different issue, and has its own threads on Suggestions, going back years.

I know I was missing the point, Raven - BUT I would still be available to make ads for you ingame for a few creds, I just... couldn't PUT them ingame for you, you could do whatever you like with them - put em on the [CHURN] forums or whatnot.

I did an awesome job advertising for TGFT on channel 100 waaaay back in the early days of the Deneb Run...

I can appreciate that it's a big PITA for Incarnate. He answered my original question of how big a pain it would be to put up billboards. thank you much.

Hi inc,

what file format/s do the GTS ads use? And any additional technical information regarding them? I'd like to play around with this in my spare time if you don't mind opening up some infos :)

drazed: Well, they're hand-assembled in 3DS Max, from a selection of font/glyph textures. Aside from that, they're normal alpha-blended textures. So, for instance, a 32bit PNG would work. These days we would probably try to do them as DXT1s with 1bit alpha, if we could get away with that (only hard opaque/transparent transitions available, no gradients).. or DXT5s if more graduated alpha was necessary. I think nvidia has open-sourced all their DXT-making tools and thing (DXT is DirectX Texture Compression, but it's used on OpenGL and such as well.. it's a standard for gaming).

I wish I still had all the old IA recruitment posters. :(

These [IA] recruiting posters?

http://viperguild.com/forimages/categories.php?cat_id=12

Nice! Yeah, one of them is there!

http://viperguild.com/forimages/details.php?image_id=111

LOVE this one too (not mine, leebs maybe?):

http://viperguild.com/forimages/details.php?image_id=114