Player Features and Ideas Discussion

space graffiti?

even with options in the graphics menu to turn it off, It would be a nightmare for large fleets of people, some of whom would probably be tagged by their own corpmates/alliancemates. for every gate jump there would need to be a loading of decals or at least their 2d location layered on top of the texture of your ship.

I'm pretty sure the reson CCP hasn't done customizable paint jobs for ships is that they get a less complicated system to optimize the large scale movements of ships if every ship of the same type has the same paint. It also marks the Shiny-Bling ships you see because they DO break with the common colour pallette. But since you only want decals..

I do like the idea, but when it comes to ships that may be on the same grid in their thousands, its unworkable, unless the decals/marks are very very small, only in certain locations and always the same size because of theconflicts with the base texture resolution.

The size has to be small, because you'll probably have to load the entire current collection of decals from everyone to some eve temp file. You couldn't go to jita and expect decals to load from CCP's servers everytime someone undocks or jumps in, so it becomes a part of the texture files. Constantly updating when you run the eve launcher as well, cause some people are flighty and change things often. If you're not going the custom decal route and are just using corp insignia, this does not matter as much, but still matters.

It can only go on certain parts of the ship because conflicts in resolution look terrible and expose tiny UV unwrap flaws, which almost all models have unless they are using procedural shaders, which does not appear to be the case. If it could be put on anywhere with any orientation, there would be campers in jjita covered in dozens of tags and you would have people camo tagging friends to block out other peoples marks.

If it can only be placed in one or two places on the ship, corpmates could just get "patriotic" and put their own corp logo over the mark. Then you'd have griefers that just use it to mark people in nasty ways that have nothing to do with coup.

Eve is awesome for the level of imagination in exploiting any kind of feature that can affect others gameplay. If it can be abused, it will be. If it can be used to demean, demoralize, shame, castigate, alienate, emasculate, infuriate and harass, it will be, and it will be the most common use of that feature.

Yes keep it very simple, sort of I was here type mark with a corp logo or similar, not much challenge using it in high sec,
Counting coup is the old native indian tradition i believe, where a warrior would sneak into an enemies camp and mark it in some way or take some trinket so they knew he had been in their home and no one had seen him come and go.

A way for a brave to prove his skills and courage..

This is what i envision for A new play opportunity in EvE


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