Customizable Flagships

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I’ve been keeping my eye on this game for a while now and I’m looking forward to buying it baring any major calamities. Although I did want to pitch a few ideas at the devs but after doing some searching other people have brought up most of my concerns/ideas already except for one. Now I know the ships for the three factions are going to be standardized although you will be able to research new weapons and all that jazz. I think it would be cool if you could create a flagship for your empire’s fleet. Nothing over the top but the player might be able to select from 5 different hull, bridge, and engine designs etc per faction and some extra features to customize the look. I don’t know if something like this could be implemented at this point but it would just be a cool feature to have.
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
the game has no time in either sense (until release or actually in game) to implement a ship-constructing system. its been brought up before countless times, and pinned down each and every time *clearly*.

we have, however, been promised some very good ship modding tools that will be included with the game, so you can make your own ships! (you'll just need to send it to other people to play with them)
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
There is really cool little feature in World In Conflict - no you cant make your own tank or apc or customize it in any way... However, any AVATAR that you are using next to your profile on massgate.net (official game foum) is "pasted" on your vehicles in game...

Its relatively easy and simple little touch to personalize your war toys and perhaps something similar could be done with Sins too...

Its fun and makes you zoom in more :LOL:
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
Yeah that is a cool feature in GC as well.
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
easy, but expensive for the models, shaders as well as time. Each model would require a refit of it's UV's.
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
and dont we all just hate uvmaping (well i do anyway cos i cant do it very well)
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
why customise?

i see the only reason would be to gain different benefits from the differnt parts you could use. while this would lead to a mostly single design that people will find causes the most havok/damage, it also renders the current cap ship choices pointless, there are already different ships for diffent roles, so apart from a mash of bits from all of them (jack of all trades are pants in my book), it would be pointless.
just my 2p

Kenetor
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top
It's not gonna happen any time soon. The game is out in less than a month. Maybe they can look at doing something like that for an expansion. In fact, from what I've seen from Beta, this game has expansion written all over it. I've seen sooo many ideas pitched forward on these forums that I know they have tons they could add to the game.
Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

While you can decide how to level-up your capital ships, you can't customize them visually. That level of ship building is outside the scope of an real-time game.

Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top
How about that little fun idea of personalized avatars being pasted on your ships ?

I know its not going to make into final release but perhaps could do in patch ;)

Would surely make people zoom more and make some cool show-off moviez :LOL:
Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top
I had envisioned only the flagship being customizable just this one ship. I didn’t mean to imply or suggest it would be like the super star destroyer executor but just a graphically different looking capital ship that would be the flagship for your empire. I realize this game is going to be real time so I know a complex in-depth ship design system was out of the question. This in my opinion would just add more player involvement kind of like naming fleets.
Reply #11 from Sins Forums Top
There's not that, but the Infocard does denote its flagship status. We may do more with this in future updates. ;)
Reply #12 from Sins Forums Top
Yeah, its nice to mouse over your opponents cap ship just before it explodes and see "Flagship" written there.

Muahahahahaha