Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Just something myself and a few friends where thinking about. If your hull gets down to a certain percentage I think it would be pretty cool if pieces of your ship start coming off.

(Note: This would only be cosmetic damage and wouldn't have anything to do with your ships performance.)

For Example: If you get hit by a blaster you will see scorch marks and maybe pieces of the hull coming off. Also, if you get hit by Auto-cannons you will see holes in your ships hull.

Also, The only way to get rid of the 'battle scars' would be to repair in a station. Just a thought for a cosmetic aspect to the game.
It would also be nice to have the ability to turn off this feature in the options menu.


Let me know what your thoughts are,

Cheers,
Mitchell

I agree, It may not be anytime soon. I just would like something a bit different then a tiny fire, as you said.

This might already start when your armour is getting damage, since armour is a physical part of the outer shell as well.

True! Forgot about that. Good Idea!

With shield impacts, id like to see the weapon system impact an actual 'shield' bubble, maybe with ripples in the bubble expanding from the impact zone. When the shield gets low, impacts would penetrate through the shield into the armor plating. This is of course unless you have Tactical Shield Manipulation at level 5, in which case the shield bubble should collapse at 0hp and allow armor impact.

With armor impacts, id like to see the impacts hit the surface fo the ship with plates or particles blasting off revealing unscathed hull plating.

With hull impacts, id like to see portions of hull plating should be blasted off revealing interior spaces, atmospheric depressurizations and small fires escaping thru holes in pressurized compartments.

With logistic or local armor or hull repairs, there should be visible 'scar' tissue from the repairs. The part was reassembled by nanites, but the paint job would be missing/ still scorched. Like op said, these scars would remain until repaired by station facility. Personally, id probably never repair in station becasue id want my ships to look like theyve gone thru hell, and we all know chicks dig scars.

The problem is Im sure this would be graphics card / performace intensive.

Indeed the shields did have a bubble graphics which I loved, but it was a bit of a resource hog...I doubt they would ever go in that much detail. For smaller engagements its fine but massive fleet battles in null would make it a pain.

As for the armor scarring graphics...its not all that difficult to have a variety of damage effects. I mean you could have like 10 or so completely different damage patterns that are progressive correlating to the incoming damage amount. I mean sure you may end up with a random damage pattern on your hull the same as another or it may be different.

Or what your preferred PvE ship is. Haha.


Maybe. I'd ask them to keep it simple to start with, though, and begin with a structure visuals/animation update. If the work on there is good and appreciated then they could start trying to apply similar effects for shields and armor. In PvE and small engagements it would be pretty awesome (especially if the destroyed layers of armor floated in space for a bit). With TiDi it may not be too bad out in big null fights either, but in Null blobs you'd probably wanna turn it off.