hiya, just a few things that crossed my mind.

1) It would be very nice to see realistic ship damage as well as the fire and smoke when armour is reduced to certain percentages. i appreciate this would be difficult but blasting fragments and maybe even wings off an enemy ship can be very satisfying! it would also be cool to see areas of your own ship turn red and flash on the ship display as u lose them!!

2) I was chatting with a few people on the channels in game about shields and i heard itani were getting them for certain - it would be really cool if these were shown around your ship on the right of the in ship display a la X-Wing. Will serco have them as well? It might be a good idea to give only itani shields, but to give serco the option of bolt-on armour enhancements or something similar (which are just as advantageous as shields), to provide another difference between the two factions.

3) I mentioned before about a more exciting chat system in a similar style to wing commander/lylat wars (with transmitted generic selectable voice samples and character animations) in an attempt to enhance the IRC chat, and was thinking this could be extended to announcements on channels such as 201 and 202. Imagine how cool it would look to see an announcement from an itani or serco (depending on your faction) station commander come in at the bottom of the screen through static!

ok well thats all for the moment - let me know what you think!

Shields?
We're getting shields...???

hmmm...attacking a cap ship while shielded...hmmmm

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