Those of us previously involved with Elite

Hi,

A simple question; it would be quite nice (and pretty cool) if those of us who were previously involved in some capacity or other in Elite could get a unique decal or something to show we were involved way back when. I play-tested the 16-bit conversions of Elite when I worked for Firebird, and I play-tested the Amiga version (and plotted the stars for the map that came in the box) for Frontier: Elite II on the Amiga. Obviously many of my old colleagues were also previously involved. It doesn't mean we're in any way involved in this new iteration and it also doesn't mean we'd necessarily be any better than anyone else when it comes to living in the E:D Universe, but it would be a nice little nod to those of us who were doing stuff on Elite (from the publisher's end) some 25 - 30 years ago...

Just a thought! ;-)
 
welcome to the forums Rainbirdrich,;)

as we are on the subject do us the general public get some sort of decal for buying the old versions of elite, it would be great if that happend as we all loved elite and if it wasnt for us buying the the first game, Elite 2 and 3 would never have happend.

I think it would be easy for everyone, if those who backed the kickstarter and helped make this project a reality all got a unique Kickstarter Skin for our ships(sarcasim), otherwise you are going to have lots of little groups of people demanding decals/skins for their contributions to Elite over the years.

finaly Thanks for play testing the 16bit versions, though bug ridden they were still great games.
 
OMG!!! Somebody think of the children!!!!

The poor children who moan about unique decals because their poor computers with only 2GB of RAM ... She cannae tak it Cap'n

I mean all these decals have to be downloaded all the time, every second second of every single day and that adds up to a lot of data and those poor RAM farmers need to look after their RAM before things flock up their computer!

inb4 someone moans about decals
 
Decals wouldn't take up that much memory - if they're procedurally generated decals, they would take up a few kb is all. If they're textures, then if they're in PNG format at maybe 250x250 then again they can be about 10-50k if correctly rendered and optimised.

The computer's memory would share responsibility for the graphics rendering with the graphics memory.

Each decal would only have to be loaded once anyway - each computer would keep a cache on the HDD. No really intense data overheads then.

Put it this way - Oolite has various custom ships with custom textures. These can be up to 2048x2048px in size, and there will be 3 per ship (diffuse, ambient specular) as well as shaders and the control thereof. And with several of these on screen at one time, Oolite runs well on the majority of older machines (including my ageing laptop with a rubbish AMD/ATI chipset).

And besides - a better argument would be trying to convince Frontier that a setting to disable rendering of decals is a good idea if it worries you to that extent.

I personally think it's a great idea, to be honest. Decals will likely be the Elite Dangerous way to personalise your ship, and that's always a good thing to allow in a multiplayer game.

Maybe a wireframe coriolis or old Elite logo? ;)
 
Back the KS campaign with at least 5 pounds and you will get a unique decal.

Thanks for your help in the past - join the forums and help the future instead ;)
 
as we are on the subject do us the general public get some sort of decal for buying the old versions of elite

Do I need a receipt? 'cos young me wasn't very good at keeping those. I still have the box, a very crumpled ship chart, a decidedly well-loved keyboard template and the cassette. I think my copy of the manuals was borrowed by one of friends (the illegitimate offspring expletive!). The Frontier collection is pristine (though I doubt the disks work anymore). ;)
 
Do I need a receipt? 'cos young me wasn't very good at keeping those. I still have the box, a very crumpled ship chart, a decidedly well-loved keyboard template and the cassette. I think my copy of the manuals was borrowed by one of friends (the illegitimate offspring expletive!). The Frontier collection is pristine (though I doubt the disks work anymore). ;)

My Keyboard strip is still firmly wedged under the plastic cover above the function keys on my beloved BBC B.... It's been there since I bought Elite just a couple of weeks after it came out :)

The Dark Wheel is somewhere as is the Ship Chart... The Cassette is languishing in a box in the den.... Essentially all the bits have been scattered across the four corners of the house following four moves.

I think a re-union of said bits may be in order... I have the box too.... :cool:
 
Yes, just like that.

:cool:

What would be nice is mission decals for completing a mission, kinda like in WWII when the pilots would add a bomb decal on the side of their plane for a successful bombing run you could have a small planet type one for every system you discovered, a cargo canister for every trade based mission, a skull and crossbones X'd out for bounty hunters ect ect :)
 
What would be nice is mission decals for completing a mission, kinda like in WWII when the pilots would add a bomb decal on the side of their plane for a successful bombing run you could have a small planet type one for every system you discovered, a cargo canister for every trade based mission, a skull and crossbones X'd out for bounty hunters ect ect :)

Yes various types of decals for successful missions, grades Elite and military ...
But not on passed games.

:)
 
What would be nice is mission decals for completing a mission, kinda like in WWII when the pilots would add a bomb decal on the side of their plane for a successful bombing run you could have a small planet type one for every system you discovered, a cargo canister for every trade based mission, a skull and crossbones X'd out for bounty hunters ect ect :)

Pretty soon you'd need an Anaconda to display all of your decals:p
 
Pretty soon you'd need an Anaconda to display all of your decals:p

this would be one of the reason behind not wanting the option to add decals.

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this would be one of the reason behind not wanting the option to add decals.

Shrink your photo ;)

That aside - I agree that multiple decals on a ship look naff - but I think the reasoning behind it is sound. Achievements could be introduced to give pilots things to aim for that unlock rewards and perks (non game breaking vanity items). They should though be carefully chosen, so not "You fired your lazer" or "You have blown up your first ship" types but more "Moved 1,000,000t of cargo" or "The Empire holds you in very high regard" types which unlocks a unique decal that the pilot can swap their own out for. Long term goals with mini rewards.
 
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