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Different UI skins per race

Feb 06, 2013 zamzx zik link
Inspired by people bitching about Incarnate's alleged Vanilla style of filming.

Basically, offer at least 3 different UI skins/huds (one per race as default?) so when you do videos, there's a distinct visual difference between races. It would make things more exciting.

Tentatively these could be created by the community if proper guidelines were laid down.
Feb 06, 2013 ryan reign link
+1

Seriously, the only visual distinction we have is three ships that are hardly nation specific in reality.
Feb 07, 2013 Kabuloso link
+1
Feb 07, 2013 TheExiled link
+1
Feb 07, 2013 Conflict Diamond link
+1. Anything to make the user experience different for each nation.
Feb 07, 2013 tarenty link
There are already a number of very clean skins for Itani, many created by spidey, and a few old serco ones. +1
Feb 08, 2013 Crusader8389 link
+1
Feb 08, 2013 LeberMac link
Good idea. Wasn't there also a thread for different skins for each SHIP as well?
Maybe that would give spidey something to do during the Feb 8-9 2013 snowstorm.
Feb 09, 2013 idd link
+1
Feb 09, 2013 Alloh link
+1 to UI diversity per race! Colors, fonts, decorations...

Even better than skins per race would be what I asked many times: same stats, slightly different ship model, per race.
Feb 12, 2013 incarnate link
FYI, I've actually intended to do this for a long time (interface skins). I just don't.. have three polished skins right now. Plus all three have to pass some degree of general visibility and usability for absolute-brand-newbies that most "optional" skins do not.

It would be a good topic for a contest or something.

We are actually working on the "three unique ship skins" thing for the EC-89. That's where the special Kickstarter ship actually came from, and why we had that on hand.
Feb 12, 2013 abortretryfail link
A lot of the player-made optional skins' visibility is hampered by the inability to change the text colors. It's always blue no matter what color your skin is.