Remember My Scars!

Sylow

Sylow
Craith said:
I guess (haven't checked myself) that battle scars are totaly client side, and might differ between the ships, since some minor lag might make that beam hit a few meters to the right on one of the computers.
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You might be right. Would be worth testing at some time.
 

Old Duck

Old Duck
I don't care if other players see my damage decals exactly as I see them. If all that was shared between players was "Five holes and two slashes", that's fine by me. Having said that, it's still a trivial amount of data to share location data for these decals. ED can track location and velocity data of individual MC rounds, which likely add up to way more data than a couple of decals.
 

Reggit

Reggit
Old Duck said:
I don't care if other players see my damage decals exactly as I see them. If all that was shared between players was "Five holes and two slashes", that's fine by me. Having said that, it's still a trivial amount of data to share location data for these decals. ED can track location and velocity data of individual MC rounds, which likely add up to way more data than a couple of decals.
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Agreed.
Doesn't have to be perfect, anything remaining is better than nothing.
 

Leadfoot

Leadfoot
Old Duck said:
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” ~ Kahlil Gibran

All I ask is this - let us keep those damage decals until we repair our ship. When I pull into space dock, I want people to see my battle scars. These are not something to be ashamed of, but rather proud of. Now if you'd like to go the extra mile, you could have these decals be removed incrementally with incremental hull repairs. For example, if I repair 90% of my hull damage, 90% of the damage decals are removed, leaving 10% still visible.
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Yes, this please!!!!! Chicks dig scars. Great conversation starter, too.

"Wow, that's a really bad hit you took there" she said in the station tavern.
"Yeah, it was bad" I replied. Took a quick sip of my drink and continued "But you should see the other guy."
 

Old Duck

Old Duck
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CMDR Rabbit

CMDR Rabbit
Old Duck said:
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” ~ Kahlil Gibran

While we all would like better damage modeling, I'm actually pretty happy with the damage "decals" we get in battle. The problem is that this visual damage magically disappears the second we enter supercruise. This is especially jarring on a ship like the Mamba where we can witness this from the cockpit. It's borderline buggy IMO.

All I ask is this - let us keep those damage decals until we repair our ship. When I pull into space dock, I want people to see my battle scars. These are not something to be ashamed of, but rather proud of. Now if you'd like to go the extra mile, you could have these decals be removed incrementally with incremental hull repairs. For example, if I repair 90% of my hull damage, 90% of the damage decals are removed, leaving 10% still visible.

Source: https://youtu.be/OnpQgeAmhnc?t=113
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Also, include burn and scorch marks from things like station rescue and the like.
 
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