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Posted - 2003.07.13 12:25:00 -
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Dunno if this idea has cropped up before but its something that just occured to me and i thought i'd sugest it before i forget.
As eve i an rpg at heart, which means its about your own individual personal character, how about some kind of respray shop in stations to change the color of the ship, or add your corp insignia or something. Clearly we dont want big bright pink and green ships zipping around everywhere, but how about a similar system as the one which u use to design your corp logo, where u can chose from set pieces and different sensible colors. This occured to me when i saw a black vexor pirate. I was like, i want one! :)
anyway, feedback apprecaited.
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MaiLina KaTar
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Posted - 2003.07.13 12:38:00 -
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Yeah that¦d be cool. But on the other hand I think that your client would have to load the color-configuration of the ships then when it enters an area. That would cause even more "warp in lag" so I¦d say somthing like this should never be in the game without that warp-in-lag fixed.
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Posted - 2003.07.13 12:40:00 -
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hmm yeah good point, that hadnt occured to me :/
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YuuKnow
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Posted - 2003.07.13 13:07:00 -
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Yeah, i think that a lot of people have been asking for this from the beginning. The problem is that it would severely increase the server traffic, uploading and downloading all the ship appearances. Or so I hear. |
Sceriv
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Posted - 2003.07.13 20:29:00 -
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look at the way homeworld did it. Very bandwidth-light method, yet added very much to the experience.
takes 2 bytes of color information, the regions to be changed on the ship are defined in teh textures.
Of course this should still be lower priority than say.... implants. (hint, hint)
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Hanns
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Posted - 2003.07.13 22:23:00 -
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i am glad this keeps getting brought up, i have posted about htis a couple of times, http://oldforums.eveonline.com/?a=topic&threadID=13131
but i have got so bored waiting for CCP to implement this, ive made some skins for my own personal enjoyment anyway!
Ive included the link's tho the full size picture underneath!
http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~sly/eve/BluCamothorax.jpg
http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~sly/eve/Blue%20Bird%20Prototype.jpg
Edited by: Hanns on 13/07/2003 22:24:17
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Griss
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Posted - 2003.07.14 05:30:00 -
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hanns. nice work on the skins you might be on my list. but i bow to your l33t skinning skills
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i was going to post something on the same lines but seems there are several posts about it already. ship coloring that is. though i will agree if you make the file/file's sizes small enough it should not be much of a problem
or give us the option to have the game display the custom skins by option. like showing the char picture. just my thoughts on it
Edited by: Griss on 14/07/2003 05:35:06
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Posted - 2003.07.14 09:20:00 -
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Thanks griss, :) and good idea about the skins, would be nice to have the ability, to "Force default skins" that way 56kers and boring people will be happy :D
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Posted - 2003.07.14 16:53:00 -
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wicked skins hanns, very nice indeed. I'd do the same but i dont really have the time/ expertise.
I really hope they find a low lag way of implementing this idea in some way, as to customise your ship would give the game such a personal touch. You could even purchase paint jobs or new paint colours off the market, maybe even bodywork modifications. In order to minimise lag u could add all possible mods such as fins or extra wings or whatever (just small things, nothing large) to the default models, then what u actually load in game is the color, so if some1 doesnt have them, they just load transparent.
Aswell as the corp insignia i'd also like to see the name of the ship painted on, in your own choice of font etc.
Edited by: Avatar on 14/07/2003 16:57:20
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Griss
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Posted - 2003.07.14 18:40:00 -
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actualy avatar. a small .gif file if done the way i sugested would cauls little to no lag.
how ever modifications to the ship model. thats a bandwidth hog if i ever heard of one. unless you want to have every posible combination of ships/addons on your hard drive
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Posted - 2003.07.14 20:40:00 -
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hehe yeah i thought it might have been wishfull thinking tbh ;)
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Posted - 2003.07.15 09:56:00 -
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Ship skins could be tied to character portraits. Load up your friends or people you see when you don't need the bandwidth to survive. Limit them to 1 skin per ship per corp if storage and transfer is a problem.
Another option would be to limit skins to your personal ship. The only ship you really ever see is the one in the middle of your screen, so why not make it so we can change the skin on that. Keep it local and you don't add any lag or storage on the servers, and we get to personalize the game a bit more.
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