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Doran
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From: The Gideon Unit
|  Posted: 2004-11-02 09:59
for the beta fx package
- CL beam source effect - loop the initial ripple/pulse effect for the duration of a cl beam's firing cylce
- Torpedo color - make ptorps a deeper/stonger shade of blue or make amtorps greener. both are a bit close to the same shade of teal
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BackSlash
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Joined: March 23, 2003
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From: Bristol, England
| Posted: 2004-11-02 14:14
I like them Doran  , I have a few of my own, hope you dont mind me posting them?
Ftorps need an affect, I asked Gideon if warping can be done, but apparently Madusa couldnt do it. is there any other affect that the Ftorp could have?
Engine trails for bigger ships need to be bigger. The larger the mass of the ship, the more power to shift it, so why not make the trials a little more..."powerfull" if it can be done.
Planets a little more rounded, and maybe could actualy look like planets  ?
[ This Message was edited by: Sir Headless BackSlash on 2004-11-02 14:15 ]
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JRE
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Posts: 570
| Posted: 2004-11-02 17:58
How about getting rid of those one button killers??? (flux, elf) It kinda ruins gameplay just a little if I wanted to kill things with one shot I'd play space invaders.
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RagAnok
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| Posted: 2004-11-02 18:06
ELF one shot kill i wish .. all elf does to you is drain power and does no damage to hull or other systems .. it just drains power, so it is not a one shot kill
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From: Bristol, England
| Posted: 2004-11-02 18:43
This is a graphics suggestions thread...please dont turn it into a omg flux thread :/.
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Grimith
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From: Your local future farm.
| Posted: 2004-11-02 18:44
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On 2004-11-02 18:06, ragAnok wrote:
ELF one shot kill i wish .. all elf does to you is drain power and does no damage to hull or other systems .. it just drains power, so it is not a one shot kill
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It's a one-shot indirect killer! 'Cos ships need energy so the players can actually achieve something by breaking their space bar. 
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Doran
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From: The Gideon Unit
| Posted: 2004-11-02 19:19
see, backslash knows whats up. the rest of yous... stop clutterin up mah threads you kneecaps
/me puts on the evil eyes
anyhoo getting back on topic
dictors/dictor bases - was thinking of suggesting ecm/eccm style rings.. but thats sorta an overused effect... dunno maybe turn the particles into streaks, give em a slight spiral
teh icc shield fx is roxx0rz... no lovin for ugto and kluth? mebby some light sparks shooting outwards
cl hit fx also rox, just all subtle-like.. ruptor hits could stand it bit of animation
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From: Bristol, England
| Posted: 2004-11-02 19:39
I was thinking more of a sort of flare from the shield, but one that fragments outwards. So that if you hit the shield, it unleashes ribbons of energy and then the energy gets pulled back.
As far as the ECM effects etc, couldnt they blur instead of look like rings. Say you are looking at a ship, and the ring works like before BUT instead of the whiteness, you get a blured space effect.
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0mni
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From: Canada, Lived around the world.
| Posted: 2004-11-02 19:52
Honestly I would like to see Ecm Rings and ECCM rings dissappear completely. Or at least make them friendly viewing only. Whats the point of haveing ecm if you can be seen by the rings ......
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Fattierob
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Joined: April 25, 2003
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| Posted: 2004-11-02 20:13
suggestion for flux graphic:
A ring like the sonic mines used by that Fett dude on Episode 2...
except that instead of a blue ring, it's composed of the words "OMFGFLUX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111" and whenever it fires you hear little 13 year olds going"OMGGHEYASSFLUXX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111oneoneone"
Just a thought:
ecm/eccm:
A sonar type ping, maybe some distortion effect? (I think somebody said distortion isn't possible...)
particle cannons:
I think the particles should like wiz in and out of each other. like DNA style criss-crosing (like one particle shot would have two little 'particles' come out of it, and they'd be crisscrossing and leaving a trail of....particle...stuff behind it...
explosions:
Better explosions! and ship fragments being left in space! how cool would that be?
my 2e-2 cents
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Meko
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Posts: 1956
From: Vancouver
| Posted: 2004-11-02 21:42
fattierob Derilect ship hulls omfg wicked idea.... also the possability for scavenging rises.... you find a derilict station... grab extractor and use your mining beams to cut out some usefull parts....
but then again MV object would sky rocket sooo....
- all self-D ships dissapear
- all dessey and below die instantly
- all cruisers wait in mv for 10 or so minuts
- dreads wait in mv for 20 or so minuts
- dead stations stay for a day
what you thinkith?
INTERDICTORS why do they have an affect at all? the only thing they should have is a purlple (or other unused colour) haze in the f2 screen in the areas they affect.
And plz, for the love of god, leave this thread as a FX sujestions not a "take this out" sujestion....
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whateverr
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| Posted: 2004-11-03 00:02
i like Backy's ECM/ECCM idea.. but i just thought of this... which would be cool imo..
ECCM.. this would be cool, have ECCM waves, be similar in that they are distorted rings of space BUT .. when they cross a cloaked ship or ECM ship the waves make the ships fade in and out of visible, and the closer you are or the more the ECCM increases the other ships signature the more visible the ship becomes .... since ECCM is the exact oppasite of ECM that'd be cool
mine beams... i think mine beams should have some dif effect as they contact the planet surface... an effect that makes it look like the beam is doing something.... maybe a splash back effect like a torch or like a welder maybe... though not a real huge radius as that would look a lil weird
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Feralwulf
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From: sitting somewhere drinking beer
| Posted: 2004-11-03 00:59
Coooooooooooool !!!!!!!!!! A station looking like an apple with a big bite taken out of it!!!
The rear sections of dreads floating around!!
How about More than just the standard ONE hole in the hull after 80%?
Or at least move it around sometimes......Like the side of the ship that takes the worst beating.
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