Simple simple request...

[spittnacid]

Can you remove the shipset graphics restriction and enable rolling animations? I see no harm in this nor any benefit for restricting it. If this zone is to survive and be fun, I think it needs to look better to attract new players. I understand 95% of the players are vets of the zone and hate change, and aren't exactly welcoming to new players ( a few are) But I haven't seen any newcomers that come back again. Despite playing the original beta I'm a new player to this zone and I fell in love with it, but I probably only stuck around because I understand the basics of the game no matter what the zone is. Sad but true, this generation likes eye candy and so we need that. The worst thing to happen is the zone is flooded with newbs and you have fresh meat... best case is we might get a few good ppl to play with.

 

One of the reasons I ask this is, I'd like to design new ships using Maya 3D. Granted I could design shipsets and use in unrestricted zones, but I need to really have the full experience of how they play and look in this very unique zone, especially with dealing in different ship sizes. A great concept, but the ships obviously look like zoomed in versions just from looking at say, the cockpits.

 

I think it would be cool as heck to have the lanc looking like an actual mothership or carrier while the spider is like some crazy looking drone. Bombers and gunners would look more the part... cos honestly the the jav looks more like a gunner and wb a bomber, going by real world airplane designs.

 

What do you think?

[Dr Brain]

I believe there is no way to remove this "restriction" without removing the ships. Since the ships are all different radii from the originals, removing them is not a viable option.

[spidernl]

Replacing them by prettier ones however I'd love to do, if someone with the talent made some fairly-true-to-the-original-but-prettier ones.

[Cheese]

jabjabjabs making some good looking ones, but theyre uncolored and hes only done 2 ships so far

 

once i get ship models i can easily render a full shipset with rolls

diwa made a really good warbird which i have the model for, but its only 1 ship

[Dav]

I think a jav got made by jabjabjab as well, so there are a few really nice models around.

 

Id love to see rolls as well, but its not as simple as you would think unfortunatly

[Dr Brain]

Rotation adds a lot to the download time, and there's really no way to overcome this with Continuum.

[Cheese]

but its one dl per change, so its not even worth mentioning

id be far more concerned about them sitting in memory

[Samapico]

Lanc's roll would be a 5MB download, and a 13426 KB bitmap in memory. 13 Megs won't kill your average 2 to 4 GB RAM machine...