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Pirate Character Backgrounds
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Sean Parisi
Blackrise Vanguard
#1 - 2015-02-08 23:51:58 UTC
Basically it is primarily in the title.

But I would like the option if possible to put the Guristas, Blood Raiders, Sansha or other Pirate factions or Faction Warfare Sub Faction backgrounds onto my character.

I believe that many people will identify with certain sub-factions and having the option would be preferable.

Thoughts, Ideas on this?
Uriel Paradisi Anteovnuecci
Itsukame-Zainou Hyperspatial Inquiries Ltd.
Arataka Research Consortium
#2 - 2015-02-08 23:54:40 UTC
Sean Parisi wrote:
Basically it is primarily in the title.

But I would like the option if possible to put the Guristas, Blood Raiders, Sansha or other Pirate factions or Faction Warfare Sub Faction backgrounds onto my character.

I believe that many people will identify with certain sub-factions and having the option would be preferable.

Thoughts, Ideas on this?

"Why not?"

It would add a nice extra variety, and wouldn't be anything time-consuming or high in space to implement- they're static images, and would be easy to take care of (unless there's some coding issue, in which case all bets are off). Plenty of characters would enjoy the option Smile

+1

"A City made of Dreams is built in heaven"
Anise Tig'res
Doomheim
#3 - 2015-02-09 04:34:04 UTC
Sean Parisi wrote:
Basically it is primarily in the title.

But I would like the option if possible to put the Guristas, Blood Raiders, Sansha or other Pirate factions or Faction Warfare Sub Faction backgrounds onto my character.

I believe that many people will identify with certain sub-factions and having the option would be preferable.

Thoughts, Ideas on this?


Supported.
Kabark
Schilden
#4 - 2015-02-09 05:55:17 UTC
I approve.
+1
Nevyn Auscent
Broke Sauce
#5 - 2015-02-09 05:55:28 UTC
Given Sansha are basically Borg makes little sense to have a Sansha background.
Additionally as soon as this is introduced people will be pushing to have NPC's ignore them even more than at present.
Sean Parisi
Blackrise Vanguard
#6 - 2015-02-09 05:59:11 UTC
Nevyn Auscent wrote:
Given Sansha are basically Borg makes little sense to have a Sansha background.
Additionally as soon as this is introduced people will be pushing to have NPC's ignore them even more than at present.


Not all Sansha are borg. Some are free willed and represent true citizenry.
Meloni HELL
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#7 - 2015-02-09 09:58:22 UTC
Type it in your bio. That's what lots of others do.
Colette Kassia
Kassia Industrial Supply
#8 - 2015-02-09 11:10:37 UTC
Generally supported.

But it doesn't quite make sense for pirate backgrounds to be available to a newborn character. Maybe that should be something you gain later on. Like after your standing with a NPC corp or alliance reaches 1.0 you can go into your portrait-maker-thing-whatever-its-called and find backgrounds available that weren't there before.

Or maybe player corps and alliances should be able to submit their own backgrounds to the server to be available exclusively to their members.
Claud Tiberius
#9 - 2015-02-09 12:39:23 UTC  |  Edited by: Claud Tiberius
Sean Parisi wrote:
Basically it is primarily in the title.

But I would like the option if possible to put the Guristas, Blood Raiders, Sansha or other Pirate factions or Faction Warfare Sub Faction backgrounds onto my character.

I believe that many people will identify with certain sub-factions and having the option would be preferable.

Thoughts, Ideas on this?

npc's also desperately need this. Immersion really drops when you are talking to an agent from (eg) the Blood Raiders, and she looks like a regular person infront of an Amarr wall.

Once upon a time the Golem had a Raven hull and it looked good. Then it transformed into a plataduck. The end.
Godfrey Silvarna
Arctic Light Inc.
Arctic Light
#10 - 2015-02-09 12:49:32 UTC
Do the pirate factions even have the technology to make capsuleers of their own? I am under the impression that even the Pirate NPC capsuleers probably all have a background in one of the empires.
Quattras Peione
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#11 - 2015-02-09 12:58:39 UTC
Colette Kassia wrote:
Generally supported.

But it doesn't quite make sense for pirate backgrounds to be available to a newborn character. Maybe that should be something you gain later on. Like after your standing with a NPC corp or alliance reaches 1.0 you can go into your portrait-maker-thing-whatever-its-called and find backgrounds available that weren't there before.

Or maybe player corps and alliances should be able to submit their own backgrounds to the server to be available exclusively to their members.


Not so much. TTP=0.

+1 for sub-faction and pirate faction backgrounds though.

Dr. Quattras Alvar Peione

No, I'm not that kind of doctor.
Komodo Askold
Strategic Exploration and Development Corp
Silent Company
#12 - 2015-02-09 13:10:57 UTC
Full support from me: +1

It's been something I've wanted to have since I started playing. I'd be very surprised if no other factions than the Empires had capsuleer technology, especially ones as technologically advanced as Sansha's Nation, or as biologically advanced as the Blood Raiders Covenant.

We even have pirate rookie ships, although they're limited edition... for now.

While we're at it, I'd also like to see NPC characters and stations from those factions to look more like the faction they belong to. As has been posted before, you don't expect a Blood Raiders station to look that much like an Amarr one.
Lugh Crow-Slave
#13 - 2015-02-11 12:07:18 UTC
I was just thinking this same thing today


I would also like backgrounds for some of the main ship corps such as Kaalakiota or Boundless Creation

but it would no doubt be simpler just to add in the pirate ones

BLOPS Hauler
The 16.8km Bubble