How about visual effects for drive types?

Chaparral

Chaparral
There are plenty of visual effects for different shield types, weapon types, engineered weapons, engineered weapon interaction with other ships, but not really anything for drive types, despite the fact that thruster engineering is one of the most ubiquitous mods.

Some sort of disgusting spark laiden cloudy long-lasting trail is certainly in order for dirty drives, and nearly absent rapidly dissipating trail should be the hallmark of clean drives.

This may have combat relevance for silent running, or stealth relevance for smuggling as well.

What do you think?
 

Captain Thea Kreutzer

Captain Thea Kreutzer
Commander Danicus said:
There are plenty of visual effects for different shield types, weapon types, engineered weapons, engineered weapon interaction with other ships, but not really anything for drive types, despite the fact that thruster engineering is one of the most ubiquitous mods.

Some sort of disgusting spark laiden cloudy long-lasting trail is certainly in order for dirty drives, and nearly absent rapidly dissipating trail should be the hallmark of clean drives.

This may have combat relevance for silent running, or stealth relevance for smuggling as well.

What do you think?
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Needs more colors
 

Watcher

W
Absolutely...
But this ties in with my whole 'ship kits should never have been a paid thing and instead should have been an in game thing that had performance implications, possibly tied to engineers'.
So yes, in game visual flagging of what your ship can do is something I very much support.
 

Bill Clement

Bill Clement
[yesnod] Oh yes, this I like, a lot!

In the real world there are/were extremely fast aircraft that could be tracked by their exhaust trails. Watching F-4s and Buccaneers light up their burners was always a joy- the 'planes surged forward, but there was a terrific plume of hot, dark smoke behind them. Speys always ran a bit smokey!
Years after I saw my last Phantom I was lucky enough to see Sukhois strutting their stuff in home waters near Severomorsk- 24s and 27s, maybe 33s as well, it'd make sense for the 279th Naval Fighter Regiment to want to practice running beat ups on Western warships. The whole sky behind them was black, I swear you could smell avcat before they made it through our overhead! [haha] It was really impressive stuff, I'm glad we never actually came to blows during the Cold War.

Here's a bit of what I'm talking about:

[video=youtube;lteL18wd15Y]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lteL18wd15Y[/video]
 

Tarman

Tarman
Drivetype effects would be a nice touch if provided by the build and not purely as a vanity item. Vanity is where you put the airshow-grade effects like the current purchaseable colours.
 

Screemonster

Screemonster
I support this.

I also support coloured shields with some indicator besides colour to tell you if they're biweave or prismatic, I ended up completely changing up my paintjob and weapon/engine colours when I swapped from prismatics to biweaves on my corvette because I couldn't stand that the purple didn't go with brass :v
 
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