Imperial Wedding Photo

Brimstone · Jul 23, 2015

Hello fellow forum dwellers and Devs(if you happen across this), I was wondering if anyone else would be interested in seeing a 'wedding photo' when the Emperor gets married. Perhaps two photos, one of the Emperor and his bride, another including Arissa and Aisling.

Despite some of my gripes about Powerplay, I do really love the portraits of the characters, mostly because it put faces to names and transformed these names into people. I always have a better time remembering names when I have a face to associate them with, as I'm sure many of you do as well.

Having the portraits added was also a very much needed breath of fresh air into the normal text based environment we experience in the game. Suffice it to say, I'd love more of it, and feel the Emperor's wedding would be a great opportunity to expand upon this.

So, Frontier, any chance we could have more of this type of art? Pretty please?

Thanks for reading, and I look forward to the responses.

X-Terminator · Jul 23, 2015

I'd like to see the wikileaks of the brides hen night!

Brimstone · Jul 23, 2015

Aisling doing shots with Patreus? Lol.

X-Terminator · Jul 23, 2015

Re. Character Artwork: they should add pics of the Assassination Targets and pin then up in the cockpit.
Also remove all this text messaging nonsense. We had CB Radios back in 1980s and Webcams in the 1990s. Video calls on mobiles in 2000s. What the hell in 3300?

Brimstone · Jul 23, 2015

X-Terminator said:
Re. Character Artwork: they should add pics of the Assassination Targets and pin then up in the cockpit.
Also remove all this text messaging nonsense. We had CB Radios back in 1980s and Webcams in the 1990s. Video calls on mobiles in 2000s. What the hell in 3300?

While I agree that would be pretty awesome, I have a feeling that realistically it wouldn't really be easy to pull off, unless they had some "portrait procedural generation" craziness. On the other hand, we don't physically interact with the assassination target, we interact with their ship. Besides, I figure that not knowing what your target looks like (handwavium) makes it easier to kill them. What if they are very attractive? Would you want to kill someone that is very attractive?(end of the handwavium). I know what you mean though, more character artwork is needed

X-Terminator · Jul 23, 2015

That's part of the psychology. It didn't stop the JFK mission. You don't actually interact with the Power people either but it makes some pick on just looks.

Brimstone · Jul 23, 2015

X-Terminator said:
That's part of the psychology. It didn't stop the JFK mission. You don't actually interact with the Power people either but it makes some pick on just looks.

Back and to the left (cough)

Faybs · Jul 23, 2015

Brimstone said:
While I agree that would be pretty awesome, I have a feeling that realistically it wouldn't really be easy to pull off, unless they had some "portrait procedural generation" craziness. On the other hand, we don't physically interact with the assassination target, we interact with their ship. Besides, I figure that not knowing what your target looks like (handwavium) makes it easier to kill them. What if they are very attractive? Would you want to kill someone that is very attractive?(end of the handwavium). I know what you mean though, more character artwork is needed

They could have NPCs speaking over the radio, no need for video; I bet it would be even more immersive since it's a lot easier to pull off realistic audio than a realistic face with current tech. I have no doubt that FD's audio team would be up to the task.

IronGremlin · Jul 23, 2015

Yeah, I'll take breadth of content via procedural generation. I have yet to play any game with prerecorded speech where it didn't just start to sound like white noise after awhile.

I'd like it for stuff like bg audio, but please no NPC audio comms - that stuff feels like a joke after the 30th time you hear the same clip.

struthious · Jul 23, 2015

X-Terminator said:
Re. Character Artwork: they should add pics of the Assassination Targets and pin then up in the cockpit.
Also remove all this text messaging nonsense. What the hell in 3300?

Maybe text messaging is all that will go FTL in 3300? (apart from ships that is

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Kerrash · Jul 23, 2015

Faybs said:
They could have NPCs speaking over the radio, no need for video; I bet it would be even more immersive since it's a lot easier to pull off realistic audio than a realistic face with current tech. I have no doubt that FD's audio team would be up to the task.

So close and yet so far: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/phonetic-arts-appoints-david-braben-to-its-board-of-directors

Brimstone · Jul 23, 2015

OH man, if Frontier took each of their devs and made them say something along the lines of," Pull over! Your cargo is mine!" in various different ways, thus causing a different audio interaction for each interdiction we experience.....THAT would be a vast step in the right direction!

Brimstone · Jul 23, 2015

Kerrash said:
So close and yet so far: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/phonetic-arts-appoints-david-braben-to-its-board-of-directors

My pants just suffered a melt down of epic proportions.

Faybs · Jul 23, 2015

Kerrash said:
So close and yet so far: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/phonetic-arts-appoints-david-braben-to-its-board-of-directors

Squee?

Brimstone · Jul 23, 2015

Guys we are getting sidetracked, lets get back to the ART!

Vasious · Jul 23, 2015

Imperial Family photo certainly needed

Draw upon HM Victoria and Albert's

Brimstone · Jul 23, 2015

Devs, please see us here.

Brimstone · Jul 23, 2015

Nooooo body else cares about this? Really?

Brimstone · Jul 23, 2015

in spite of all the " when FD dropped the ball" posts, I'll bump this thread up.

xDreadnoughtx · Jul 23, 2015

I'll bump this briefly.
I want more content including this sort of stuff. However...

Not before more important things are sorted first. If it does not divert attention then fine. Otherwise....God no.