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What kind of space (shield) visuals would you like?
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Whether from reputation, or whatever. The latest was Competitive shields, which I use quite a bit, on ships that don't end up completely covered in nothing but blue dots. We currently have 16, counting Aegis but not the mission reward Reman (same thing as the Rep. Reman shields). A whole lot of those are blue or green themed.
What sort of visuals would you like to see from a set, in the future?
I always appreciate sets that change nacelle colors without complete obliterating the hull, but leave a little bit of the player-defined color patterns underneath. I'd like to see some red plasma combs (no, I don't care about visual faction recognition; gimme). Or, something like the Counter-Command shields, but with a color other than green being the accent.
There are quite a few sets I like, but are either ruined for me by leaving no trace of ship patterns, or forcing a deflector or impulse color that doesn't match anything, or saturating the hull with too many dots or lines (looking at you, Terran shields.)
What'chu want?
What sort of visuals would you like to see from a set, in the future?
I always appreciate sets that change nacelle colors without complete obliterating the hull, but leave a little bit of the player-defined color patterns underneath. I'd like to see some red plasma combs (no, I don't care about visual faction recognition; gimme). Or, something like the Counter-Command shields, but with a color other than green being the accent.
There are quite a few sets I like, but are either ruined for me by leaving no trace of ship patterns, or forcing a deflector or impulse color that doesn't match anything, or saturating the hull with too many dots or lines (looking at you, Terran shields.)
What'chu want?
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I just want the hull material to be available on any other ship.
In terms of what I don't want to see more of, anything that resembles the Iconian shields. I'm not quite sure how to articulate it, but I just hate the weird circle patterns and half circles that look like blotches of paint that someone tossed at my ship.
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M.A.C.O. basically does that.
A completely mirror finish. For a while after Lighting 2.0 I could get this effect on my Tal Shair Adapted Battlecruiser, and it looked like a bunch on knives welded together, which was quite imposing.
AEGIS styled lines in different colors, including red and blue to have lines that are cross-faction to you (I.E. red Tron lines on a Fed ship, blue on KDF)
Fairly solid colors that wipe away the base skin almost completely. Lots of color choices and darker shades too.
Shields to make non-faction ships look more faction-like. Like Romulan Shield visuals in making ships look a bit Romulan by adding green, but taken even further in having full coverage.
Deflector energy-looking animated projections often time look neat, more of these please.
MACO just makes things slightly shiny, and adds hexagons that sometimes don't look good on certain ships. Also, not available to KDF (which gets the KHG/AKHG shields which makes things shades of brown).
Yeah, just changing Nacelle color with nothing else could be neat too.
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Things I want in STO:
1) More character customization options such as more clothing options, letting the toon complexion affect the entire body, not just the head. Also a true RGB color picker applied to all costume and appearance options, which would allow for true appearance customization and homogenous colors instead of "this same exact color looks vastly different on two different pieces."
2) Bridge customization, not bridge packs. Let us pick a general layout and adjust the color palette, console appearance, and chair types, as well as more ready room layout options.
3) Customizable ground weapons, i.e. The aesthetic look of phaser dual pistols but they shoot antiproton bolts. For obvious reasons this would only apply to standard ground weapons.
4) For the love of Q please revamp Plasma Ground Weapons. They look like demented Supersoakers right now.
5) True Vanity Impulse and Deflector effects similar to Vanity Shields.
6) A greater payout for hitting T6 Reputations. Currently it takes more time and resources to get from T5 to T6 than it does to get from nothing to T5. Make that grind really pay out at the end.
7) Mirrorverse Refugee event similar to AoY/Delta/Gamma, complete with new Mirrorverse recruits for all factions.
8) Independent Faction, because yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me!
Some of the Shield visuals are pretty bad, when you examine them closely. The Dyson Shield, for instance, whilst pretty, is clipping all over the place on most of my ships. That's because most Shields are overlays, as it were. Except for the Lukari Shield, which, near as I can tell, primarily just messes with the specular lighting of your hull, thus giving it that shiny glow/glitter, sans your hull protruding thru it somehow. We need more of those.
That's a cool idea.. I could see myself using that if made available.
How about a few more dark/Flat Black/Gun Metal type skins ?
Only skin I can think of that's true black is from the Aeon Shuttle for use on the Wells/Mobius and Paradox.
I really like that one.
Shiny black with Shiny gold highlights
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Nor should they be. Their ships would look weird.
That sounds very nice, I have 6 KDF officers but they're only level 35-40 atm.
Would be really nice if one could buy and use both version regardless of faction.....
Provided they both give the same stats of course.
> themadprofessor#9835 wrote:
> Some of the Shield visuals are pretty bad, when you examine them closely. The Dyson Shield, for instance, whilst pretty, is clipping all over the place on most of my ships.
I reported this as it applies to cloaking and gave plenty of screenshots quite a while ago.
I'd love to get dyson shield skin on my ships but 32k dil plus ec/tokens is too much for a shield I'd never use but for looks
Add to that it'd be a nice grind reward option, for example having a crystalline looking shield skin from the cca event, or crystal shards being spat out of your impulse trails, or the old mirror ship skin (from the lockbox booby prize ships) for mirror grind...better than most ground guns, at least.
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The Aegis shield.
Feds get a nice blue glow.
KDF gets a lovely pulsing red.
Romulans need a green glow for their ships.
Things I want in STO:
1) More character customization options such as more clothing options, letting the toon complexion affect the entire body, not just the head. Also a true RGB color picker applied to all costume and appearance options, which would allow for true appearance customization and homogenous colors instead of "this same exact color looks vastly different on two different pieces."
2) Bridge customization, not bridge packs. Let us pick a general layout and adjust the color palette, console appearance, and chair types, as well as more ready room layout options.
3) Customizable ground weapons, i.e. The aesthetic look of phaser dual pistols but they shoot antiproton bolts. For obvious reasons this would only apply to standard ground weapons.
4) For the love of Q please revamp Plasma Ground Weapons. They look like demented Supersoakers right now.
5) True Vanity Impulse and Deflector effects similar to Vanity Shields.
6) A greater payout for hitting T6 Reputations. Currently it takes more time and resources to get from T5 to T6 than it does to get from nothing to T5. Make that grind really pay out at the end.
7) Mirrorverse Refugee event similar to AoY/Delta/Gamma, complete with new Mirrorverse recruits for all factions.
8) Independent Faction, because yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me!
Atrox material shields
Purple.
At the very least, can we stop getting brown and partially-visual shields? I like shields to cover the whole ship, and don't want another brown as dirt reputation shield.