Vesperion
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Hello again to all.
Some time has passed since i made an actual suggestion and for some unknown reason SSG has implemented my last idea of >>>extending Boosters duration<<< during their remaining time but this is not what my post is about to this time... anyways i should warn you that it will have some text to read for you but i did some work to put my idea into pictures to show it actually (don´t mind my skills of editing though cus they are horrible) so without further ado let´s go to the actuall post.
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The Situation:
At the moment it is so that sooner or later every Pilot will have the same items so that every ship will have the end the best Items equiped that are visually noticable what gives very little variation between the ships at some point + all Pilots fly with always the same Thruster Color (Clan Leaders, Squad Leaders, GMs, CMs and Devs excepted) but the idea/wish for some more " personalization" comes always up every now and then and the current situation given SSG shows that at least effects of the blasters can be changed (Hearth, Cake, Snowball Booster).
The Idea:
1st of all i know that this may not have a top priority considering the current CQ rework and TC4 are currently in the pipeline and bring some bigger changes into the game so what i want to provide is more an actuall suggestion with visual ideas how it can be implemented and what the idea behind it is.
The Squad Leader Issue:
In terms of the question "But Vesp the color for Squad Leader Thrusters makes it easier to directly see them so that they can be focused for PvP. With giving the option to use different colors for the trusters how should be now see who the Squad Leader is?" For this some simply "rework" of the name is needed and basicly just places the icons we can see when we have selected a player to their name if we see them in space. I thank @Getagripx in this case for providing me the required icons i needed to make it fully visible what icons could be shown if we see a pilot in Orbit or on a Planet. For the Clan Leader Icon i thank @dragonarh and for the Squad leader Icon @Asmodeus(ImmoLovers) to be in Orbit of Venar when i needed the icons
As you can see with this visual change it will still be possible to see who the Squad Leader is. For the wingman it makes no difference due they always have the same Icon/Thruster Color anyways.
The Hangar/Shop interface:
The next actual change that has to be made is the Hangar/Shop interface to give us the option for the visuals/effect we wanna use.
Due it only gives 3 actuall items that are visible the list of the "Optical Parts" will be reduced to only the Blaster, Rocket and SB. If we buy a new ship it will always have the "Standart visual" aka the currently installed blaster. If we now wanna change the optical look and have selected the weapon where we wanna ha another version it leads us to the Shop window with another change.
Basicly the "Optical Parts" work similar like the Ship Components but again just reduced to the 3 actual visible items Blaster, Rocket and SB and we can only install an item if it has been decrypted like a normal BP. The costs for changing the Optical Part should be the same like the actuall costs to change the color/Name of the ship cus again it is just an optical change and not a change in the power value.
The Effect:
Now after you have selected your Weapon of choice for your ship to give it some personal touch the next part is the effect of the Blaster itself (sadly Rockets and SB have no difference in the systems and if they are Normal, Rare or Ancient) For this it will give in the Hangar menu another point as addition.
Again please don´t judge my editing skills and with them the levels of the item
Considering that with Siri the Ancient blasters are unlocked and they all have the same visual i would put them into 1 item for all system. For all other systems it gives the choice of either teh normal or the Gold version and if we select the blaster we wanna use it will be used in the ship we currently fly until we change it again and like with the "Optical part" the costs should be the same as changing the color/name of the ship.
The Thing you see the most: Your Thrusters exhaust and the Thruster exhaust of others:
This is the part that may allow the most customization at all considering that every ship has a different amount of thrusters but may also be the part that may then be hard to be implemented/changed at all.
As an example here the idea for an Ship with 4 Thrusters:
As you can see the idea might be that each thruster can be colored individually so that in theory having a "rainbow thruster" is a thing if the ship has enough thrusters of course and i assume that it may give some very nice combinations for this part and really could bring some very unique results for each pilot ship. If this idea would really be a thing again i think this may be the hardest one rather then changing the color of the thrusters exhaust for all.
The Final Words:
Phew... this was again a bit text heavy but you all should get th idea of the whole thing. If done correctly i even assume that Split could make the one or another extra gold purchase for blasters/effects that are only obtainable for Gold and maybe limited times like during events and stuff but not just for 3 hours and instead during their seasons and make them a one time purchase(?). I mean it is fun when you use one of the seasonal blasters but then again for only 3 hours it is a bit pointless and you rarely see pilots using those considering the 3 hour timeframe they can be used after purchase.
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With that said if you have made it this far i give you my congrats for this but sadly it gives no Achivement for this.
Regards - Vesperion
Some time has passed since i made an actual suggestion and for some unknown reason SSG has implemented my last idea of >>>extending Boosters duration<<< during their remaining time but this is not what my post is about to this time... anyways i should warn you that it will have some text to read for you but i did some work to put my idea into pictures to show it actually (don´t mind my skills of editing though cus they are horrible) so without further ado let´s go to the actuall post.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Situation:
At the moment it is so that sooner or later every Pilot will have the same items so that every ship will have the end the best Items equiped that are visually noticable what gives very little variation between the ships at some point + all Pilots fly with always the same Thruster Color (Clan Leaders, Squad Leaders, GMs, CMs and Devs excepted) but the idea/wish for some more " personalization" comes always up every now and then and the current situation given SSG shows that at least effects of the blasters can be changed (Hearth, Cake, Snowball Booster).
The Idea:
1st of all i know that this may not have a top priority considering the current CQ rework and TC4 are currently in the pipeline and bring some bigger changes into the game so what i want to provide is more an actuall suggestion with visual ideas how it can be implemented and what the idea behind it is.
The Squad Leader Issue:
In terms of the question "But Vesp the color for Squad Leader Thrusters makes it easier to directly see them so that they can be focused for PvP. With giving the option to use different colors for the trusters how should be now see who the Squad Leader is?" For this some simply "rework" of the name is needed and basicly just places the icons we can see when we have selected a player to their name if we see them in space. I thank @Getagripx in this case for providing me the required icons i needed to make it fully visible what icons could be shown if we see a pilot in Orbit or on a Planet. For the Clan Leader Icon i thank @dragonarh and for the Squad leader Icon @Asmodeus(ImmoLovers) to be in Orbit of Venar when i needed the icons
As you can see with this visual change it will still be possible to see who the Squad Leader is. For the wingman it makes no difference due they always have the same Icon/Thruster Color anyways.
The Hangar/Shop interface:
The next actual change that has to be made is the Hangar/Shop interface to give us the option for the visuals/effect we wanna use.
Due it only gives 3 actuall items that are visible the list of the "Optical Parts" will be reduced to only the Blaster, Rocket and SB. If we buy a new ship it will always have the "Standart visual" aka the currently installed blaster. If we now wanna change the optical look and have selected the weapon where we wanna ha another version it leads us to the Shop window with another change.
Basicly the "Optical Parts" work similar like the Ship Components but again just reduced to the 3 actual visible items Blaster, Rocket and SB and we can only install an item if it has been decrypted like a normal BP. The costs for changing the Optical Part should be the same like the actuall costs to change the color/Name of the ship cus again it is just an optical change and not a change in the power value.
The Effect:
Now after you have selected your Weapon of choice for your ship to give it some personal touch the next part is the effect of the Blaster itself (sadly Rockets and SB have no difference in the systems and if they are Normal, Rare or Ancient) For this it will give in the Hangar menu another point as addition.
Again please don´t judge my editing skills and with them the levels of the item
Considering that with Siri the Ancient blasters are unlocked and they all have the same visual i would put them into 1 item for all system. For all other systems it gives the choice of either teh normal or the Gold version and if we select the blaster we wanna use it will be used in the ship we currently fly until we change it again and like with the "Optical part" the costs should be the same as changing the color/name of the ship.
The Thing you see the most: Your Thrusters exhaust and the Thruster exhaust of others:
This is the part that may allow the most customization at all considering that every ship has a different amount of thrusters but may also be the part that may then be hard to be implemented/changed at all.
As an example here the idea for an Ship with 4 Thrusters:
As you can see the idea might be that each thruster can be colored individually so that in theory having a "rainbow thruster" is a thing if the ship has enough thrusters of course
and i assume that it may give some very nice combinations for this part and really could bring some very unique results for each pilot ship. If this idea would really be a thing again i think this may be the hardest one rather then changing the color of the thrusters exhaust for all.The Final Words:
Phew... this was again a bit text heavy but you all should get th idea of the whole thing. If done correctly i even assume that Split could make the one or another extra gold purchase for blasters/effects that are only obtainable for Gold and maybe limited times like during events and stuff but not just for 3 hours and instead during their seasons and make them a one time purchase(?). I mean it is fun when you use one of the seasonal blasters but then again for only 3 hours it is a bit pointless and you rarely see pilots using those considering the 3 hour timeframe they can be used after purchase.
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With that said if you have made it this far i give you my congrats for this but sadly it gives no Achivement for this
.Regards - Vesperion
