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Alexzandvar Douglass
Motiveless Malignity
Deepwater Hooligans
#1 - 2012-06-24 22:31:23 UTC
Have headlights? It's not like most systems are actually dark. Not to mention they only light up a very small area in front of your ship.

I say we should be allowed to get super bright headlights to blind our foe going into combat.
Kiteo Hatto
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2012-06-24 22:33:34 UTC  |  Edited by: Kiteo Hatto
Super advanced targeting/tracking computers get blinded by lights now ?



Also....its ok to look at the sun 20km away through camera drones but a light from the ship "THE HORROR NOOOOOooooooo......"
Alexzandvar Douglass
Motiveless Malignity
Deepwater Hooligans
#3 - 2012-06-24 22:35:17 UTC
Kiteo Hatto wrote:
Super advanced targeting/tracking computers get blinded by lights now ?


As a pilot your actually looking around your ship with camera drones, intense light could damage those.

Eh who am I kidding, bad joke I know.
Skydell
Bad Girl Posse
#4 - 2012-06-25 00:28:27 UTC
They are needed to dock
Post Post Post
LOUDER THAN GOD
#5 - 2012-06-25 00:30:26 UTC
Without them, my Cyclone wouldn't look like a train.

And that's unacceptable.
Raiz Nhell
State War Academy
Caldari State
#6 - 2012-06-25 00:34:13 UTC
Its not the headlights that worry me... its the blatant disregard of indicators...

I was cut off by some damn hoodlum in a Rifter at the Jita undock... he was driving crazy...

There is no such thing as a fair fight...

If your fighting fair you have automatically put yourself at a disadvantage.
Eternal Error
Doomheim
#7 - 2012-06-25 00:34:33 UTC
Alexzandvar Douglass wrote:

I say we should be allowed to get super bright headlights to blind our foe going into combat.

Only after we can achieve ramming speed in the Phantasm or Rupture to finish off enemies in structure.
Roll Sizzle Beef
Space Mutiny
#8 - 2012-06-25 00:42:23 UTC
Do-dads and lights make things look like things.
Ituhata
Killboard Padding Services
#9 - 2012-06-25 00:43:42 UTC
My guess is its to distinguish yourself to other pilots in the area to avoid mid-space collisions since Space Traffic Control tends to suck.
Mons Pubis Giganticus
Doomheim
#10 - 2012-06-26 04:13:37 UTC
...have elllipses
Joe Everyguy
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#11 - 2012-06-26 04:18:25 UTC
Post Post Post wrote:
Without them, my Cyclone wouldn't look like a train.


Cannot unsee Cyclone loco now.

Satisfied customers of Joe's House of Snark and Shitpost Emporium
Constable Chang
#12 - 2012-06-26 04:44:16 UTC
Alexzandvar Douglass wrote:
Have headlights? It's not like most systems are actually dark. Not to mention they only light up a very small area in front of your ship.

I say we should be allowed to get super bright headlights to blind our foe going into combat.


Minmatar ships use LADAR sensors. I assumed thats what the light on the front of the Cyclone and Thrasher was for... and that the vanes many people call 'solar panels' are part of the LADAR system too.
Karl Hobb
Imperial Margarine
#13 - 2012-06-26 04:44:57 UTC
ITS SO YOU CAN SEE IN THE DARK

A professional astro-bastard was not available so they sent me.
Kuehnelt
Devoid Privateering
#14 - 2012-06-26 05:02:11 UTC
Morganta
The Greater Goon
#15 - 2012-06-26 05:05:07 UTC
Alexzandvar Douglass wrote:
Have headlights? It's not like most systems are actually dark. Not to mention they only light up a very small area in front of your ship.

I say we should be allowed to get super bright headlights to blind our foe going into combat.


I thought it was because everyone has silly aviator glasses or welding goggles on and need the light to find their ship in the hangar
ACE McFACE
Dirt 'n' Glitter
Local Is Primary
#16 - 2012-06-26 06:05:14 UTC
How do Hulks see the juicy ore? You dont want them to mine blind do you?!?!

Now, more than ever, we need a dislike button.
Abdiel Kavash
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#17 - 2012-06-26 08:24:50 UTC
It's a cold, dark universe.

You will also notice radiators installed in your cockpit.
Iria Ahrens
Space Perverts and Forum Pirates
#18 - 2012-06-26 09:33:53 UTC
Same reason modern day ships have lights? So other ships can quickly identify your ship type and direction of travel? Lights are the reason you show up on grid when you're out of radar range I'd say.

My choice of pronouns is based on your avatar. Even if I know what is behind the avatar.
Patient 2428190
DEGRREE'Fo'FREE Internet Business School
#19 - 2012-06-26 09:37:53 UTC
Aesthetics
Ghost Xray
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#20 - 2012-06-26 09:42:32 UTC
Alexzandvar Douglass wrote:
Have headlights? It's not like most systems are actually dark. Not to mention they only light up a very small area in front of your ship.

I say we should be allowed to get super bright headlights to blind our foe going into combat.


Headlights? What about how there appears to be lighted decks. Is that so I can find my way to the head? And if the ship is built just for me, do I even need decks at all? Am I expected to be jogging, eating my space food and playing chess while I'm in there? That's a waste of capacitor I think. These ship designers don't know what they are doing.
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