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Color for Gallente?
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Shrike Arghast
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2013-03-16 04:51:16 UTC
Maybe I'm the only one who thinks this, but does anyone ever find themselves wishing that the Gallente boats had a bit of... color? And yes, I know that grey is basically their signature look... but sometimes I wish there was just a touch of something else. The Gallente are such a flambouyant, wild, entertaining culture... and yet their ships are, in a strange way, even more subdued than those of the Caldari.

I dunno. I'm not by any means suggesting clown colors or anything. But it might be interesting to see Gallente ships with, say, a different shade of afterburner. I think grey hulls would look really interesting with deep red flames coming from the engines. For some reason, I think the white-on-grey is just a bit stark for the nationality they're supposed to be.
Drake Doe
88Th Tax Haven
#2 - 2013-03-16 07:15:44 UTC
No to red flames. blue, pulsating ones would match the mwd lifestyle better

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Paikis
Vapour Holdings
#3 - 2013-03-16 07:16:10 UTC
Gallente are already green... turn your graphics up.
Skurja Volpar
T.R.I.A.D
Ushra'Khan
#4 - 2013-03-16 08:17:28 UTC
They are adorned in subtle shades of green and blue.

Perfect choices for your art deco submarine exterior, and give a classy but confident impression, giving you the feeling that that Erebus that just turned up is there solely to play some smooth jazz at you.
Roime
Mea Culpa.
Shadow Cartel
#5 - 2013-03-16 08:28:04 UTC
Paikis wrote:
Gallente are already green... turn your graphics up.


This :D we're green and gorgeous

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Alara IonStorm
#6 - 2013-03-16 13:14:56 UTC
Paikis wrote:
Gallente are already green... turn your graphics up.

There is one specific setting that turns them chalk white, you think CCP would have caught that in the V3 Testing.

I go with chalk so I can play the game on my cheap laptop. Sad
Garviel Tarrant
Beyond Divinity Inc
Shadow Cartel
#7 - 2013-03-16 17:24:55 UTC
They really are not green..

A pale teal at best

If they were green they would look much nicer. Gallente has a really boring colorscheme atm imo

BYDI recruitment closed-ish

Freyya
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2013-03-16 18:25:55 UTC
God, be glad they didnt go through with the color they had in mind when gall got v3ed. Mint pasty green/blue anyone?
Iirc that thread got naught pretty quick...
Lili Lu
#9 - 2013-03-16 18:34:22 UTC
Gallente used to be very green. Amarr tech II ships used to be very gold and the bright red highlights were beautiful. The old Khanid black was shiney. And there are many other examples of vibrant color from the past.

It seems the art department decided to go with muted and earth tones for just about everyone. I think it so they can later have aurum set for purchases of vibrant hull schemes.

Nothing wrong if that is the idea, except we don't have these available yet. Straight
Buzzmong
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2013-03-16 18:53:43 UTC  |  Edited by: Buzzmong
Well, the shuttle used to be an awesome bright orange...

The Dominix used to be brown and a sort of brushed steel look.

The Phobos used to be pink (ok, it was only on SISI and well before Heavy Interdictors actually existed as a ship class).

The Tristan used to be a rather nice sandy colour.

The Gal newb frigate had the same brown/brushed steel as the previous Dominix.


While I appreciate CCP's newer art style for it's detail work, the V3 project also had a side aim of unifying the ship colours, which imo, wasn't a good thing.
Denuo Secus
#11 - 2013-03-16 19:05:58 UTC  |  Edited by: Denuo Secus
Lili Lu wrote:
Gallente used to be very green. Amarr tech II ships used to be very gold and the bright red highlights were beautiful. The old Khanid black was shiney. And there are many other examples of vibrant color from the past.

It seems the art department decided to go with muted and earth tones for just about everyone. I think it so they can later have aurum set for purchases of vibrant hull schemes.

Nothing wrong if that is the idea, except we don't have these available yet. Straight


I agree. I'd like more vibrant color schemes, more contrast as well.

- Gallente: t1 is grey+teal instead of vibrant green. I like all t2 hulls tho.

- Caldari: t1 is light grey. A short time after V3 they looked much darker, very nice. Kaalakiota should be really black + red imho. Then Ishukone, grey-gold anyone? Ugh What?

- Amarr: t1 was vibrant gold + dark black (engine parts below the golden hull). Now it's bronze and different shades of brown. I personally like the new Khanid scheme. But Carthum looked better before: gold + shiny red on top.

- Minmatar: t1 was reddish rusty, also shiny. Now it's brown and dull.

Just to make it clear: I really appreciate the huge effort CCP is expending to redo all objects (not only ships) in game. It's just the new color schemes I don't like most of the time. Ofc it's very subjective.
Roime
Mea Culpa.
Shadow Cartel
#12 - 2013-03-16 20:12:47 UTC
IIRC CCP has said that these are intermediate colours. Hues depend on lighting, and there are some lighting tweaks that can only be implemented when all assets are V3'd.

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Shadow Lord77
Shadow Industries I
#13 - 2013-03-17 04:59:02 UTC
Didn't certain Gallente ship have a green-yellow colour scheme at one point?
Moonlit Raid
Doomheim
#14 - 2013-03-17 05:41:05 UTC
As many above have already said, I've always seen the gallente as green.

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Fireflyb1
Walden 2.0
#15 - 2013-03-17 06:02:50 UTC
dunno, gallente always looked pretty magenta to me.. er no wait, that's caldari sry

gallente is orange
Shrike Arghast
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#16 - 2013-03-17 20:55:13 UTC  |  Edited by: Shrike Arghast
Garviel Tarrant wrote:
They really are not green..

A pale teal at best

If they were green they would look much nicer. Gallente has a really boring colorscheme atm imo


I would definitely support a kind of light, military green. Not like camoflage... but more like the color you'd paint an experimental weapon or something. Or, alternatively, stick with the current color scheme and give the afterburners a bit of color. White is just so drab... it reminds me of Obi-Wan's lightsaber before Lucas figured out how to do a true blue color.

The white afterburners just scream 'hi, we're CCP and, apparently, we've run out of colors. So, we're going to take our most 'vibrant' race in terms of lore, and saddle them with white.'

I mean, really, doesn't white make more sense for the Caldari? That's the race that appreciates subtlety and efficiency over style.
Alara IonStorm
#17 - 2013-03-17 21:21:24 UTC
Shadow Lord77 wrote:
Didn't certain Gallente ship have a green-yellow colour scheme at one point?

It was glorious. That should be the Navy color theme. Sad
Shrike Arghast
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#18 - 2013-03-18 02:46:44 UTC
Alara IonStorm wrote:
Shadow Lord77 wrote:
Didn't certain Gallente ship have a green-yellow colour scheme at one point?

It was glorious. That should be the Navy color theme. Sad


I would really like to see a Navy Brutix and a Navy Hyperion. Straight
Lucas Schuyler
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#19 - 2013-03-18 15:34:29 UTC
Base color is fine.

The forest/jungle camo on the Navy ships though needs to go Roll
Shrike Arghast
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#20 - 2013-03-18 16:49:43 UTC
Lucas Schuyler wrote:
Base color is fine.

The forest/jungle camo on the Navy ships though needs to go Roll


But, with the exception of the Amarr (whose Navy ships look like some kind of sun-bleached corpse that washed up on a beach), most of the Navy ships have that camoflage. While I realize that cammo would accomplish nothing in space, I like it because ti kind of heralds back to the paint jobs on warships in WWII. In fact, if anything, CCP should derive even more inspiration from that, and go with dazzle paint schemes like you might see on an HMS Repulse or HMS Prince of Wales.
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