Paint, paintjobs, Livery and Decals discussion thread.

[Mysturji]

I think it highly unlikely that you'll be able to upload custom decals, as in designed by your own fair hand, for a number of reasons :-
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1. It would take ~2 picoseconds before people were flying around with various crudely drawn genetalia on their ships.
2. Whatever was uploaded would have to be downloaded to every single client who saw your ship. This is very resource and bandwidth intensive. There's a reason all of the graphics are installed on your PC as part of the game install and not downloaded on the fly
3. Did I mention the genetalia thing?

Why draw something crudely when there is so much free pr0n on teh interwebz?

 

[Sentenza]

I think it highly unlikely that you'll be able to upload custom decals, as in designed by your own fair hand, for a number of reasons :-
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1. It would take ~2 picoseconds before people were flying around with various crudely drawn genetalia on their ships.
2. Whatever was uploaded would have to be downloaded to every single client who saw your ship. This is very resource and bandwidth intensive. There's a reason all of the graphics are installed on your PC as part of the game install and not downloaded on the fly
3. Did I mention the genetalia thing?

1 and 3 can be handled through an approval process.

As for distributing the images - a decal can be seen, at most, by 32 players at once, and would be downloaded only once per instance. You can reduce even further by downloading the image only when the ships are in normal space, since you can't look at ships in SC, and implementing an image id cache so you don't redownload the same bitmaps every time you encounter the same ship. That would be a fairly trivial load for a server, it's not like we have a billion users.

 

[Googol]

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It would take ~2 picoseconds before people were flying around with various crudely drawn genetalia on their ships...

But that doesn't count as a decal, it's a contents label

 

[Bobbydylan]

Take a look at the Battlefield 4 Emblems Almost all are either of south park characters, or... male chickens.

 

[thorn-]

1 and 3 can be handled through an approval process..

So - are you volunteering the upfront cash investment to hire a few new FD staff members to approve the potentially hundreds of decals one-by-one?

 

[Mercemary]

custom image decals... no.
custom decals made of preloaded letters and signs... YES.
let us frakkin name our ships!

 

[satrycus]

Are you serious??? That's the Mercenary Pack Decal. Even Mike Brookes confirmed this. How would a skull represent day one? I repeat, are you serious? And I tought Ed Lewis' posts on this matter were bad...

No, he didn't. He said:

No - the day one mercenary edition decal is the skull. The kickstarter decal (if you had the reward tier of £5 or above) is the ringed planet.

Michael

So the skull decal IS the day one decal.

 

[Ouaisne]

Originally Posted by Michael Brookes
No - the day one mercenary edition decal is the skull. The kickstarter decal (if you had the reward tier of £5 or above) is the ringed planet.

Michael.

So as a KS backer should I have access to this "ringed planet"?

 

[Top Cat]

Don't you have skull decals?

Isnt that the Merc pack decal?

Im still waiting for my backers decal, which is showing no sign of appearing.

So as a KS backer should I have access to this "ringed planet"?

Id like an answer to that too, because here https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=103141&page=3 he says the ringed planet is the Day 1.

 

[goxy]

Galnet news during supercruise

it would be nice to have Galnet news on screen during long supercruise, the short version of news

 

[SuBSynk]

This is one of the best suggestions for "something to do when in supercruise" in my opinion. Maybe it could show up on the empty screen between your legs and the player could zoom in on the screen so it is bigger and easier to read.

One problem is what stations version of Galnet would it show (possibly the last visited) but apart from that small issue i think its a great idea and may lead to more people getting involved with the story.

 

[Cobra Mk2]

(suggestion) buy paint jobs and decals with in-game money or let us design our own

Will there ever be any plans to allow us to buy new paint jobs or decals with in-game money?
Personally I think the prices of these items is a little on the expensive side and I don't think they're good value for money.
It would be good if we could buy them while docked in station as part of the outfitting section and I think we should lose the paint jobs if our ship gets destroyed and need to buy a replacement.

Another idea I think people would like is some kind of customisation of the paint jobs and decals with the ability to create them for our own ships.
I imagine some groups/clans would like to have the opportunity as well.

 

[starman]

this is how the servers are paid for

 

[AirZeee]

Or, along the lines of design your own, how about paying (for server upkeep) to enable upload of an image file.
Good potential for an application to design surface maps unwrapped from the wireframe.
I'd imagine FD used something like this to do the i game designs, so I'd imagine this could be another revenue stream for add on's

 

[Alien]

this is how the servers are paid for

I was looking at the paint jobs the other day on store.zaonce.net ... made me laugh when I saw "In Stock" ... it's a digital thing, there's no "stock" per se to be out of!

 

[Athera]

GalNet News: Viva la revolution de Lave.

Hi fellow commanders.

I present myself, CMDR Athera instigator and Leader of the new Coalition of french speaking players.

Regarding the GalNet news about the invasion in Lave,

I want to dissociate myself and the members and future members of the coalition of this event. It was not my intention to start a nationalist war in the game and always been against it. Players from both sides took a post on the French forums and started a war waving their country flags. The idea behind the coalition was new and yet incomplete and not ready to take action in the game. Like i explained in previous posts, the fact that we are french has NOTHING to do with the coalition. It just makes sense to gather as a guild because we speak the same language. Sadly, players already started to fight in lave and calling themselves the coalition. Those players do not belong to our group and by their actions corrupt our initial goal. I am saddened by the fact that Frontier supported this GalNet news and by this letter turned our coalition into some kind of terrorists planning a coup to get rid of the Alliance government. They also encouraged racial or nationalist profiling by associating our language to our cause.

When the coalition will be ready to fight on the battlefield you will know about it from me and nobody else. For now we are still building the core concept of our guild and it might be subject to change. Obviously the Lave system idea will be reviewed. We are not terrorists or anarchist and nothing has been decided yet as to what direction the coalition will take.

I should have kept it out of the forums for now until the idea was complete but obviously i was wrong thinking i was facing a mature community and its a mistake i wont do again.

We are not your enemy and i hope the idea of the coalition will still be able to exist even after this regrettable incident.


Regards,

Commander Athera.

Edit: First of all stop targeting me with your racist comments. I am Canadian and not french from france. Then i recall writing something like that in a post earlier this week: ''It would be fun to see FD spice up things their own way''. I can understand why they did this GalNet News but they didnt even bother to consult with me to confirm my intentions nor waited for the actual REAL coalition to make a move on Lave.

 

[Commander Debic]

What the headline says.

Well, and cockpits would be a pretty good idea.

Especially a black cockpit interior that doesn't reflect so much in the sun and CLEAN WINDOWS! :S

Can we have a window washing service in stations, with some girls wiping down your windshield? Well, there IS wind in space... solar wind... you know...


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If the windows on my car are dirty or smeared, I get out at the next gas station and clean them. I just LIKE it when the glass is really really clear. It makes things you see through it more vivid and real!

I second the window washer but can it be a hunky guy for us ladies please. And where is the paint job for the Anaconda.

 

[Xeonyx]

A coalition of French players and a war in Lave ? Wow, I've been missing a lot of things lately it seems. Could you please make a quick recap of the events Athera ? Oh and French player here too btw. Hence why I would like to know what's going on exactly).

 

[Lanatir]

Hi fellow commanders.

I present myself, CMDR Athera instigator and Leader of the new Coalition of french speaking players.


When the coalition will be ready to fight on the battlefield you will know about it from me and nobody else. For now we are still building the core concept of our guild and it might be subject to change. Obviously the Lave system idea will be reviewed. We are not terrorists or anarchist and nothing has been decided yet as to what direction the coalition will take.


Commander Athera.

Oh my. So let me get this straight: You dont like being attacked based upon the fact that you try to conquer Lave for your 'french' guild. And you think its mean that other people come there and stop you and that they should let you prepare for war until YOU are ready. Thats not how War works. People dont wait for you to get 'ready'. You claimed Lave, you got your butts kicked. Sad story. Noone to blame but you

 

[kelticfury]

Hi fellow commanders.

I present myself, CMDR Athera instigator and Leader of the new Coalition of french speaking players.

Regarding the GalNet news about the invasion in Lave,

I want to dissociate myself and the members and future members of the coalition of this event. It was not my intention to start a nationalist war in the game and always been against it. Players from both sides took a post on the French forums and started a war waving their country flags. The idea behind the coalition was new and yet incomplete and not ready to take action in the game. Like i explained in previous posts, the fact that we are french has NOTHING to do with the coalition. It just makes sense to gather as a guild because we speak the same language. Sadly, players already started to fight in lave and calling themselves the coalition. Those players do not belong to our group and by their actions corrupt our initial goal. I am saddened by the fact that Frontier supported this GalNet news and by this letter turned our coalition into some kind of terrorists planning a coup to get rid of the Alliance government. They also encouraged racial or nationalist profiling by associating our language to our cause.

When the coalition will be ready to fight on the battlefield you will know about it from me and nobody else. For now we are still building the core concept of our guild and it might be subject to change. Obviously the Lave system idea will be reviewed. We are not terrorists or anarchist and nothing has been decided yet as to what direction the coalition will take.

I should have kept it out of the forums for now until the idea was complete but obviously i was wrong thinking i was facing a mature community and its a mistake i wont do again.

We are not your enemy and i hope the idea of the coalition will still be able to exist even after this regrettable incident.


Regards,

Commander Athera.

I went to Lave specifically to trounce you and your upstarts but couldn't find any evidence that you were or had been there at all. So meh.