RedAlert!!!

skipper8472 · Feb 23, 2015

Any chance of putting this into game so you can set your ship to Red Alert, Yellow Alert or normal alert?. Just thought it be a nice touch.

Brakespear · Feb 23, 2015

Only if we have to change a light bulb.

skipper8472 · Feb 23, 2015

I knew that was coming smeg head!!!.

Skip Intro · Feb 23, 2015

You'd have to keep changing the light bulb, so perhaps after you can walk around your ship.

Ack, ninja'd!

Loskene · Feb 23, 2015

If you went by star trek rules condition green implies lowering your shields. I don't think anyone's doing that in Elite, or willing to fly around at constant yellow alert. But we already have flashing red lights and alert messages when we're being shot at.

CMDR Sheehy · Feb 23, 2015

Maybe red alert does four pips to shields.

Green would be four pips to engines.

All you have to do is put on a computer voice and go - "Reed Alert! Reed Alert..."

Skip Intro · Feb 23, 2015

Red Alert = ALT+F4?

Sid · Feb 23, 2015

I want a purple alert

skipper8472 · Feb 23, 2015

Damn you, all the way to Hades! I want to be able to set Red Alert My Self.

antodena · Feb 23, 2015

skipper8472 said:
Any chance of putting this into game so you can set your ship to Red Alert, Yellow Alert or normal alert?. Just thought it be a nice touch.

I would love this, but only on the bigger ships. No need to put red alert on a two seater or less.

Actually you can shut down shields and shut them up while needed but I don't see the purpose in a game like that... There is no treat reaction over the presence of the shields... In Star Trek instead the Shields means aggressive behaviour.

Retorrent · Feb 23, 2015

Aren't alerts like that generally only used in large ships of battle so they can inform the crew? Seeing that we are one man crews, I think we can figure out pretty fast what is going on.

skipper8472 · Feb 23, 2015

It could be a way to say to other players I am ready. LOL

Vandaahl · Feb 23, 2015

Fine, but then I want a "Fasers on stun".

CMDR Sheehy · Feb 23, 2015

"Regulations state that when communication has not been established..."
"Lieutenant, I think the admiral is aware of the regulations."

Vi.king · Feb 23, 2015

for what do you need a alert status when you are the only one on the ship? chances are high that, when you are the one setting a red alert that you already know that you are on red alert..

Gogster · Feb 23, 2015

Go play ST on-line, you can have all the red alerts you'd ever need.

skipper8472 · Feb 23, 2015

To be double sure that your on your toes and is aware that its a red alert situation.

(I just thought it be a fun feature)

CMDR Sheehy · Feb 23, 2015

Maybe they could give you Holly!

(Oh, sorry - I see you've already done that.)

Loskene · Feb 23, 2015

Retorrent said:
Aren't alerts like that generally only used in large ships of battle so they can inform the crew? Seeing that we are one man crews, I think we can figure out pretty fast what is going on.

I'd like to see an alert klaxon when you deploy hardpoints in the Anaconda at least, since it is a large multi-crew ship and everyone belowdecks (in zero-G, remember) would very much want to know when the ship is about to start flipping end to end and being shot at.
This would be nice too, for comms chatter when we have NPC crew:
[video=youtube;f8e3JVFRIEk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8e3JVFRIEk[/video]

BrewerGeorge · Feb 23, 2015

I have 'Red Alert' set as a Voice Attack command. Deploys hardpoints, sets pips to fighting configuration, plays the whoop-whoop.