Dear user:

The Vendetta Suggestions forum has been up and running for several years. Many fine suggestions have been made, and many have become part of the game. To avoid repetition, please see the list of suggestions (below) that have already been submitted. This is an incomplete listing that incorporates some of the more common ideas. Use the SEARCH link to locate even more threads pertaining to your suggestion.

If your suggestion is new, please post it.

If your suggestion is a significant variation on a suggestion already posted, please start a new thread and link to the old thread in the first post. That way we have some separation of discussion periods without having to flip through pages and pages of stuff looking at posting-dates.

For instance: If there is already an old thread about landing on planets, create a "New Landing-On-Planets Thread" thread and link to the old thread in the very first post. Cover whatever new ground you want to discuss in the new thread. As a general guideline, if a thread is older than a year, make a new thread that references it rather than posting to the old thread.

Note: Additional threads are linked as [2] [3] and so on.

adapting small weapons to fit into large ports
asteroids, exploding
autopilot ([2] [3] and more)
banks / banking (and earlier)
beam weapon/lance
billboards, real advertising on
black holes (or space/wh anomalies).
board ships in flight
bots for purchase or hire, defense, trading, repair ([2] [3])
capture the sector / station ([2]) [IMPLEMENTED for select stations]
cargo management (viewing, selective jettison) [IMPLEMENTED]
cargo scanners [IMPLEMENTED with countermeasures]
cargo loading, selective
chained or alternate fire
channels (chat) defaults, color coding
cloaking (stealth)
cockpit view
colors, ability to change after ship purchase
cooling beam ([2])
countermeasures vs. missiles and rockets (chaff, flares, EMP)
crafting ([2])
debris, detailed: graveyards of ships and bots ([2][3] and more)
different ships for factions / nations
direction indicator ([2] and more)
disabling rays ([2])
drones
economy/new/redux
EMP
exploding cargo
external camera - allow rolling / allow configurable view
faster engine / faster weapons
family or group discounts
fighter bays
flight assist indicator [IMPLEMENTED]
fuel, need for
formation flight
"force" powers
gadget ports other than weapon ports
gambling
group stats
guild trade missions
hauling equipment as if it were cargo [IMPLEMENTED]
headlights
hoboes/nomads
hourly pricing
HUD level progress, modular [IMPLEMENTED single selectable progress indicator]
HUD topics list
ion storms, cause damage, fewer
ion storms, warning
larger ships
marking buoys / beacons / waypoints[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]
missions, simultaneous
multiplayer ships ([2]) [IMPLEMENTED main pilot and gunners only]
nation war, motivation for ([2])
notepad, in-flight [IMPLEMENTED]
nebulae, able to fly through
passenger transports
physics, "real"
planets, landing on
player anonymity
race courses [IMPLEMENTED]
radar, colors, user definable
radar, hiding behind objects [IMPLEMENTED handicaps players only]
radar, long-range ([2]) [IMPLEMENTED for storms only]
repairing self in flight
scout drones
shields, Itani or otherwise ([2]) [IMPLEMENTED for capital ships only]
ship, as cargo
ship decals
ships, naming
shops, player-owned
space creatures
stations, building, owning, capturing, destroying, walking in
stations, planet-sized
stealth mode ([2])
textures, pre-cache all option [IMPLEMENTED]
toggled turbo switch
tractor beams
translations of the game and manual
turbo in other directions
turrets, player-controlled [IMPLEMENTED]
update this list :P
voice, communication between players, voices [IMPLEMENTED for groups]
walking around in stations
weapons, bigger

After receiving a few requests to unlock this thread in order to provide a single place to nominate threads to the above list, I have done so.

Briefly: I do not intend to log EVERY suggestion, but suggestions that come up more than once. I'm looking for a fairly exhaustive discussion of a suggestion with pros and cons represented. A thread with dev comments would be especially prized.

added: economy/new/redux courtesy of EddyHolland

I marked flight assist indicator as implemented.

-Asp

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^ voice, communication between players, voices

I guess you can check that one off...

Thanks Shedu, updated.

"channels (chat) defaults, color coding"

Partially implemented at least?

http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/3/20010

Shared radar within a group

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http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/3/20011#249566

Stealth/RAM coating for ships

Cooling Beam added

Put an IMPLEMENTED stamp on that "hauling equipment as if it were cargo" thread.

"cargo loading, selective" looks to be implemented :P

improvement for high efficiency mining options:

http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/3/24537#304004

request for colour-blind mode in radar colours:

http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/3/24690#305346

1. Make the radar indicator for a jump point to be a color OTHER than green -- perhaps orange -- to make it stand out among the turrets, etc. around a wh.

2. When in the Nav screen, sectors with conquerable stations should be marked with an indicator showing a station is present, preferably with some minor change that indicates that the station is conquerable as opposed to normal.

3. When mousing the cursor over a conquerable station's sector, the current owner player/guild/whatever should be displayed in the sector info.

4. If a conquerable station is under attack, its sector should have a red tint on it to indicate an attack is in progress.

5. Turret locations on Moths and Atlases should be able to mount mine dispensers (or possibly other large-port weps) that can be controlled from the tertiary fire button. The requirement that these turrets be manned by a second player makes these turrets virtually useless because no one flies that way.

6. Radar extenders should work in fogged sectors, such as Dau K-10, just like they work in a storm.

I suggest adding "pay by the hour" to this list:

http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/3/25201

Better support for joysticks.

Some joysticks, like the Saitek X52 have a number of POV/Hat switches, yet you only see one listed in the wgaf.cfg file. Quite a few joysticks support a shift/mode feature, again the X52 has three modes, yet they are ignored, or treated as three different buttons, same thing with the Cyborg X F.l.y. 5 - it has a shift button that is treated like just another plain button.

An example of what I think this would permit is a follows:
Mode 1 (X52)/Unshifted (Fly 5, etc): F/A mode enabled, where the throttle acts like a throttle
Mode 2 (X52)/Shifted (Fly 5) F/A mode disabled, where the throttle controls acceleration now, both positive and negative
Mode 3 (X52)/2nd Shifted button (maybe two buttons pressed at once, say on the Fly 5): Station (or mining) mode - where autopilot might be helpful, or mouselook would be turned on. Something, defined by the user/player.

Some (all?) of this can already be done, to a limited extent, by the software/drivers provided by the joystick/gamepad manufacture (for windozes mainly), or a third party software program, such as the gamepad software for the Mac and Linux platforms. The problem is you have to use a third party program to control all of the buttons and axis, or program some of them, and enable other parts of it in VO's options/controls/configuration area. Just having one area in VO, where all of the buttons and modes/shifts can be programmed, and controlled, would be nice and cut down on potential problems

More diverce customizing game play(i.e. charator indavidul identaty.)

After play your game i found idavidual identaty limited to player name, race and/or faction.
The only outward changes were a few ship vaients and alittle color on the hull of the ship.
I my self could see a need for improvement in this area. One thing that may add some alure
to the game would be an outword texture to ships with different armor it added. This would
give possablity of an oganic or mecha feel to ships appeal. You could for example imply
geometric or reptile scaling to give this effect. Multi coloring too can also give more diverceity
for a indivdual apperence. A second adaptation can be applied to the game would be weapon
astetice apperence outwardly as you add and remove them. This in it self would give a great way
to enhance the individual identity to each player expireance in the game. Thease are just a few
small but dramatic changes that may intice existing player and as well as attract new players to
this mmo for future enjoyment.

Sinserly yours
an avid gamer