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The Black Jackal
The Southern Legion
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Posted - 2013.03.26 03:36:00 -
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Bringing a sense of unity, pride, and self to your Corporation should be number #2 Priority for the Devs. Why?
Because a good community will keep players here. The community in game, are the corporations, and having a design specific to your Corporation will put your corporation out there.
So how do we go about doing this? At the moment, there are no specific 'skins' that can be applied to Dropsuits, but there are different Dropsuits with different colour schemes.
Firstly, I'd introduce the ability to 'color' your own Suit for AUR or ISK maybe. A Simple UI interface that allows you to change the Armor Colours (Primary and Secondary), the Suit underneath's Colours (Primary and Secondary), as well as Accessories.
This would be a matter of 'purchasing' the component patterns and colours for the suit, so the more you put into the suit, the more it will cost you.
For Example:
Armor Primary - Black (Results in PLate PLates on your suit of armour.
Armor Secondary - Red (Results in the Straps, and Armor Joins on your Armour being Red)
Suit Primary - Khaki (Results in the Suit being coloured Khaki Green underneath the armor plates.
Suit Secondary - Brown (Results in the Secondary Components of any Design being coloured Brown.)
Suit Pattern - Camouflage Two (Results in a Pattern resembling Camouflage Overlaying the Suit and mixing Primary and Secondary Colours up.
Accessories = Black (Results in your additional Accessories that don't fall under above categories to be coloured Black.)
All up this suit combination would give you a fair look.
Now you place your Corporation (Or other Logo) on the shoulder.
Done! You have this epic design you love. And you're a Director of your Corporation... You have everyone donate to a pool of resources (or use AURUM) to buy a 'Corporation Design Patent'. That is active for a month, or 3 months, or a set period of time.
From this point on, your Corporation members can apply this Design to any of their suits for that period of time. |
The Black Jackal
The Southern Legion
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Posted - 2013.03.26 03:42:00 -
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You can then do the same design principal for Vehicles, applying different designs to vehicles, even basing your Logos on your individual Units (or equivalent) within your corporation to instill a sense of Unit Loyalty and pride, as well as Corporate Pride.
You can have 'Specialist' Unit Designs, like a simple all-black design for Night Ops, or Black Ops Squads.
Or you can have an Imperial Troopers sort of style, pure white with black trimmings, for forward assault units, making themselves very visible and possibly distracting enemies from the incoming 'Black Ops 'Units.
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The Black Jackal
The Southern Legion
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Posted - 2013.03.27 04:32:00 -
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Bojo The Mighty wrote:The Black Jackal wrote:Bringing a sense of unity, pride, and self to your Corporation should be number #2 Priority for the Devs. Definitely not even close to number two. I'm sorry but community doesn't quite matter. The social aspects are merely being tested right now. In the future they will be so, but as of now, the game needs to operate correctly and have the functions necessary.
It would be at, or close to number 2.. with gameplay elements being No. #1...
Social elements keep players playing, gameplay, graphics, and unique things to do attract people. But when they believe they've 'conquered' the current content, or don't think there's anything else to do. The Social aspect is what keeps them around, pushes them to delve deeper into the player interactivity.
SP Farmers - Play until they cap, then don't play anymore. Nil Social Aspect.
ISK Farmers - Play over and over and over, never donate to corporation wallets, and don't socialise because they don't view chat channels. They just enter the next fight as soon as the current one finishes.
Give them the ability to 'wear' a uniform, or have custom outfits, they'll engage in the social aspect more. You can be a part of the Imperfects, and wear one uniform, but then another person joins Zion TCD, and they wear a distinctly different uniform. Both are recognizable on the field by some degree (though by how much would depend on the designers involved).
I want to be able to stand on the battlefield, as have so many I've spoken to in game about this, and state that I'm a member of (Insert Corp / Unit / Alliance Name here) and I'm wearing their colours. |
The Black Jackal
The Southern Legion
RISE of LEGION
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Posted - 2013.03.30 14:09:00 -
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I would like to see this idea extended to EVE as well... they've given us V3 Skins on ships that are very nice, and have the 'manufacturer's' logo, (or racial logo) on the hull. Now's the time to set up templates that you can apply, then 'colour' to your Corporation Colours.
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The Black Jackal
The Southern Legion
RISE of LEGION
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Posted - 2013.04.01 15:00:00 -
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Going to bump this up, to highlight how much this idea would mean to a lot of mercs. (Whether for tactical purposes or to show their corp pride, or for that one guy who HAS to wear a bright fluoro pink Assault Suit with Vibrant Yellow Glowing Armour plates on the Battlefield for Night Visibility. |
The Black Jackal
The Southern Legion
RISE of LEGION
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Posted - 2013.04.05 11:58:00 -
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RINON114 wrote:I've seen mention somewhere that this is exactly the type of thing AUR will be used for. As for making it corp colours that may be difficult, would you require people to buy AUR in order to join your corp?
Currently I personally require all members to have UVTs if they want to participate in corp battles. However, communal pooling will always have this issue. You can't force people to buy AUR, unless you really do want to have a ghost corp, but it's the most viable way I can see it happening and CCP actually gaining something out of it. ISK cost could be implemented with player market, but the initial purchase should still come from AUR. |
The Black Jackal
The Southern Legion
RISE of LEGION
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Posted - 2013.04.05 23:17:00 -
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I'm not really for the gradation based on suit tier.
What if you want your Proto Type Suit to be White? Under your system, you'd never achieve that.
The idea is purely cosmetic in application, unless your sensor dampening is so high you can afford a brief glance and not show up with a red marker.
The ideal would be that you set exact colour schemes, based on your corp colors, camo, or whatever you want. |
The Black Jackal
The Southern Legion
RISE of LEGION
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Posted - 2013.04.05 23:30:00 -
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Judy Maat wrote:this is not the Sims here..
anny color customization would just put more pressure on the game engine (that try to fit in a ridiculusly small PS3 machine..RAM CPU etc..)
and like mentioned manny time already this would only be abused to have some sort of camouflage..
I like the dropsuit to a a definite look so i can recognize a suit type easily and fast.
They already have different colour suits in the Primordial suits etc.. they did so when they had AUR versions such as the 'relic' suits and such during closed beta.
The system is there already, so stating it puts more pressure on the system is ludicrous when it's been , and is being, done.
Prototype suits are Black... yet on the darker maps what I call DUSK maps, they gain no advantage.. why? because colour doesn't affect your Sensor profile, which is what gives you a red chevron.
And point of matter... it wouldn't be abusive if they did use it for camo.. why? Because a real military would. It's called 'Smart' not 'Abusive'.
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The Black Jackal
The Southern Legion
RISE of LEGION
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Posted - 2013.04.07 17:27:00 -
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Charlotte O'Dell wrote:Mine would be pink and fluffy.
Actually had a conversation about this with a few guys in a game... Imagine, striking fear into the hearts of your enemies, them running from you, because they see pink...
Dunno about the fluffy, but a Pink and White Camo Pattern would say "LOOK! We're the Pink Army!"
It would, at least, be distinctive. |
The Black Jackal
The Southern Legion
RISE of LEGION
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Posted - 2013.04.09 03:24:00 -
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Current mechanics don't favour camouflage, as often, simply glancing at people = red chevron for you and your team to see.
The camouflage would be, bye extension, aesthetic.
The only time it would become a 'tactical' choice, is if a manual 'spotting' mechanic is instituted. |
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