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fluffymoof
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Why can't we have these? We have cosmetic visual slots for Impulse, Shields, and Deflectors for the ship looks. So why not have a cosmetic slot for weapons?
For instance, I have X weapon, but want to see blue phasers. Rather than equip blue phasers, which may or may not result in a DPS loss, in a weapon slot, I could instead slot it into a cosmetic weapon slot to see blue phasers.
Of course, we'd likely need a few limitations such as:
1. Beams can only be cosmetically replaced by beams and cannons by cannons.
2. Disabled in PvP, for obvious reasons.
So pretty please, can we have a cosmetic weapon slot? It's for color purposes and little more. Possibly even have more than one cosmetic slot, so we could have a good laugh with RAINBOW BEAMS.
For instance, I have X weapon, but want to see blue phasers. Rather than equip blue phasers, which may or may not result in a DPS loss, in a weapon slot, I could instead slot it into a cosmetic weapon slot to see blue phasers.
Of course, we'd likely need a few limitations such as:
1. Beams can only be cosmetically replaced by beams and cannons by cannons.
2. Disabled in PvP, for obvious reasons.
So pretty please, can we have a cosmetic weapon slot? It's for color purposes and little more. Possibly even have more than one cosmetic slot, so we could have a good laugh with RAINBOW BEAMS.
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It's annoying to have one mismatched red beam because I've equipped the kinetic cutting beam, or a blue episode reward Polaron mixed in with my classic purple ones.
Even a shield warp engine trail slot to go with the impulse engine trail one would be welcome.
Bullchips. way back in Beta or shortly thereafter, there was a line command that let you do that very thing. it was brushed off as a dev tool but the real reason it was removes was the PVPers were crying because they didn't know what energy type to defend against
who cares? everyone slotted neutronium back then anyway
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That just changed the color of the beams iirc, a weapon cosmetic slot would completely change the sprite and, hopefully, the firing sound as well
... serious question here, but what difference does it make what weapon type your opponent is using? I can't think of any situation where that would affect which abilities you use, not to mention there are several different weapon types out there with very similar colors that could easily be mixed up
The fact is this should be possible, it's just a code telling the game what visual to display, and it's one of the most requested things. They managed it with shields etc why not weapons.
Just give each vessel a single visual slot for cannons, beams and torps. Whatever you slot in each changes the look of any weapon of that type slotted on the ship.