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Ship Colors

Aug 04, 2006 FatStrat85 link
How about allowing us to customize our ships with 2 colors instead of just 1? This would allow guilds to have official color sets like high schools.

I can't imagine it'd be that hard to split the colorable areas into 2, or to add another set of coloarble areas to each ship. Heck, only a small piece of most ships gets colored anyway; the second color could affect the rest of the ship.
Aug 04, 2006 bojansplash link
We want guild acronyms on our ships. :)
Aug 04, 2006 toshiro link
In other words, decals. I think this has been suggested so many times that it's starting to get moldy and ungainly.
Aug 04, 2006 LostCommander link
Sorry, FatStrat85 - but 2 colors would be a rather difficult change to make. :( Each ship would need an additional alpha layer for the new color and then they would all have to be re-pre-rendered and everyone would essentially have to re-download the game again (or suffer the mother of all patches). I like the idea in principle though - perhaps we could request all the new ships have 2 areas (done initially, it shouldn't be much of an additional load on Luis).
Aug 04, 2006 Whistler link
Aug 04, 2006 moldyman link
Did someone say... MOLDY!?!? :D
Aug 04, 2006 Antz link
Could an alpha transparrent colour be added for those who don't want to paint their ships?
Aug 04, 2006 incarnate link
Decals and more configurability are things we've wanted for ages (long before ever suggested, or before we had users even). Unfortunately, we're going to be pretty busy with a lot of fundamental gameplay work for the next few months, so the topic may get a bit more moldy before it's dusted off.
Aug 04, 2006 moldyman link
Yay, two moldys in one thread <_< >_>
Aug 04, 2006 incarnate link
Sorry, it may moulder further before being dusted off.
Aug 05, 2006 LeberMac link
Moulder? Where's Scully?