Victory Nameplates...

SeaFireliv · Jun 30, 2017

I just noticed Victory nameplates... Just a question. Does the Victory Nameplate actually marks your actual kills either automatically or you somehow put the number in yourself?

The blurb doesn`t explain although the pictures make it look like that.

Straha Yeagar · Jun 30, 2017

Given that it is advertised as 9 different plates...three styles in three colors, and the only style difference is the number of incorrect tally groups...six tally marks instead of five, I'd say it is not dynamic.

Besides that...based on the wording in the description, those tally marks could be for anything...ELW's discovered, number of successful docks, number of typo's in this weeks newsletter...

Alec Turner · Jun 30, 2017

My guess is that it's a fixed image.

Also (for those that haven't seen the other thread), what's wrong with this image ...

Clue ..

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead · Jun 30, 2017

If it were dynamic, my every inch of my ship would be covered in chalk marks....

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead

MadDogMurdock · Jun 30, 2017

This applies to a few towns up in the hills.

High-6 buddy!

babelfisch · Jun 30, 2017

Alec Turner said:
My guess is that it's a fixed image.

Also (for those that haven't seen the other thread), what's wrong with this image ...

https://www.frontierstore.net/media...b8d27136e95/n/a/nameplate_victory03_white.jpg

Clue ..

http://i.imgur.com/mMQRXJV.png

There is nothing wrong with it, it's a senary system.

Straha Yeagar · Jun 30, 2017

MadDogMurdock said:
This applies to a few towns up in the hills.

High-6 buddy!

Straha Yeagar · Jun 30, 2017

So from the Newsletter Store Spotlight...

"Killing your enemies in scores of six..."

Will these name plates help me make the Sag A* Run in under 12 parsecs too?

The Chairmaker · Jun 30, 2017

Must be lots of interbreading round Cambridge way.

Probably explains the strange footwear our commanders have. Probably got webbed feet

Sung to the Munsters theme tune

Your father is your Brother
Your Sister is your mother
You like to .... each other
The Frontier Family

Wyaston Hypatia · Jun 30, 2017

straha20 said:
So from the Newsletter Store Spotlight...

"Killing your enemies in scores of six..."

Ah…so every mark's 20 enemies then, and each block's 120. Two score and four short of a Gross

Infidel Deity · Jun 30, 2017

Alec Turner said:
My guess is that it's a fixed image.

Also (for those that haven't seen the other thread), what's wrong with this image ...

https://www.frontierstore.net/media...b8d27136e95/n/a/nameplate_victory03_white.jpg

Clue ..

http://i.imgur.com/mMQRXJV.png

I guess this is the british non-metric type counting. [yesnod]
The way of thinking and counting that made the empire fall.

mossfoot · Jun 30, 2017

If it does mark your kills I will definitely be getting it. What about that other nameplate (Ace)? Does it track kills by size (small, medium, large)?

Wyaston Hypatia · Jun 30, 2017

mossfoot said:
If it does mark your kills I will definitely be getting it. What about that other nameplate (Ace)? Does it track kills by size (small, medium, large)?

https://www.frontierstore.net/media...e5fb8d27136e95/1/9/1920x1080-acenameplate.jpg

Or how may ships you have lost?

mossfoot · Jun 30, 2017

Wyaston Hypatia said:
Or how may ships you have lost?

Heh,

It would be cute if there was a dynamic that could be introduced - where a single mark represented X kills, but every time you get shot down you lose X marks/scratches.

Sentenza · Jun 30, 2017

Oh, no, no, no! Victory plates should display insignas! Give us plates showing how many Imperial ships we killed, that will sell!

Wyaston Hypatia · Jun 30, 2017

mossfoot said:
Heh,

It would be cute if there was a dynamic that could be introduced - where a single mark represented X kills, but every time you get shot down you lose X marks/scratches.

Dynamic plates would be great, but I suspect a whole lot of work for a very small gain.

Lucius-Darcia · Jun 30, 2017

straha20 said:
http://static.celebuzz.com/uploads/2013/06/14/high-six.gif

You must spread some rep around...

Sentenza said:
Oh, no, no, no! Victory plates should display insignas! Give us plates showing how many Imperial ships we killed, that will sell!

https://media.defense.gov/2008/Nov/14/2000662999/670/394/0/081114-F-0001C-001.JPG

I'm so glad that this is a british forum, in germany this must be censored [wacko]

Dogeh · Jun 30, 2017

Lucius-Darcia said:
I'm so glad that this is a british forum, in germany this must be censored [wacko]

The hand gesture?

Ashnak · Jun 30, 2017

Lucius-Darcia said:
I'm so glad that this is a british forum, in germany this must be censored [wacko]

Let's say, it would be open to discussion and juidicial interpretation - ok if you could convince the judge that it is a historic document, not ok for frivolities like a computer game that would be accessible to minors.
Yes, we have (or had at least - it's been some time) pictures of swastikas in our schoolbooks. And I was able to watch Iron Sky (via Netflix Germany) uncensored, so even the frivolities stuff is open to interpretation, but then again, Netflix has an age lock.

z993126 · Jun 30, 2017

Dynamic nameplate for these would be particularly useful. They're a bit silly otherwise, not actually having meaning beyond a superficial callback to fighter plane tradition.

Would be neat to have an explorer-themed one indicating number of first-discovered systems (though I suppose the victory nameplate can stand in for that, conceptually).