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Personalization/Decaling
Since we don't get to see the person behind the controls, or a virtual representation, it would be cool to be able to upload a .png file with a decal that would show up somewhere on your ship. This would allow a level of recognition of other players without having to target and just give it some fun factor. All the ships pretty much look the same, and in a fleet of 10-20 of one type of ship who knows who's who.
Also, It would be nice to be able to name our ships, have it show up in the targeting window, ie. Captin "name" of the "ship name". Ships have been givin names for hundreds of years, why stop now?!?!?1 8)
Also, It would be nice to be able to name our ships, have it show up in the targeting window, ie. Captin "name" of the "ship name". Ships have been givin names for hundreds of years, why stop now?!?!?1 8)
I'd like to see decals, but really, it'd be too much bandwidth to load thousands of different decals, and policing them all for content would be a job in itself.
I do however support naming your ship.
I do however support naming your ship.
I'm not necessarily advocating the use of decals, I'm just throwing out an idea.
Maybe just have a list of 20 or 30 decals pre-loaded. No custom decals are allowed, but with the list of possible colors for the ships, and 20 or 30 decals, there would literally be thousands of combinations.
Maybe a guild could request to submit a custom decal for all their ships, but that guild would have to have over 15 or 20 people. The decal can only be a two color 100x100 pixel image (maybe white gets masked so the ship shows through) below 20k or something, and must be approved by either the devs or Guild Software appointed moderators. I would suspect that there would be a short flurry of decal requests initially, but that would taper off quickly.
Possibly make the basic decals client side, so they don't have to be loaded from the server, just simply chosen from the player's hard drive. If the player wants to change them to pornographic images, that's his or her perogative, but at least it would stay client side, so no one else would have to look at them.
Naming Ship Ideas:
I am in full support of naming ships. This allows cool stuff like, a player can keep their name, but be otherwise known as "Skull Leader," "Viper 4," "S.S. Minnow," "The Good Ship Lollypop" etc.
Maybe just have a list of 20 or 30 decals pre-loaded. No custom decals are allowed, but with the list of possible colors for the ships, and 20 or 30 decals, there would literally be thousands of combinations.
Maybe a guild could request to submit a custom decal for all their ships, but that guild would have to have over 15 or 20 people. The decal can only be a two color 100x100 pixel image (maybe white gets masked so the ship shows through) below 20k or something, and must be approved by either the devs or Guild Software appointed moderators. I would suspect that there would be a short flurry of decal requests initially, but that would taper off quickly.
Possibly make the basic decals client side, so they don't have to be loaded from the server, just simply chosen from the player's hard drive. If the player wants to change them to pornographic images, that's his or her perogative, but at least it would stay client side, so no one else would have to look at them.
Naming Ship Ideas:
I am in full support of naming ships. This allows cool stuff like, a player can keep their name, but be otherwise known as "Skull Leader," "Viper 4," "S.S. Minnow," "The Good Ship Lollypop" etc.
I really like these ideas. I can understand the difficulty of policing custom decals, ( even though I'd love that option ), so perhaps that part isn't viable. A guild being able to have their own decal sounds good.
If decals were allowed it'd be nice to see a decent number if possible, at least eventually. Maybe originally the player base could even help out here by submitting some for consideration based on requirements given by Guild. Then once they'd been chosen and implemented ( giving players a good starting selection ) leaving it fixed at the existing icons with no further submissions ( perhaps with the guild request option still around ).
As for the ship naming idea, this was something that I felt really lacked in Jumpgate, the ability to name your ship so that others could see the name.
If decals were allowed it'd be nice to see a decent number if possible, at least eventually. Maybe originally the player base could even help out here by submitting some for consideration based on requirements given by Guild. Then once they'd been chosen and implemented ( giving players a good starting selection ) leaving it fixed at the existing icons with no further submissions ( perhaps with the guild request option still around ).
As for the ship naming idea, this was something that I felt really lacked in Jumpgate, the ability to name your ship so that others could see the name.