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Ability to Hail other player-ships on Tribble! Screenshot included!

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Check it out, pretty cool new unreported feature just released on tribble an hour ago:
http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/3016/screenshot2010042815450.jpg

you'd think since this is such a requested feature, they would mention it in the latest patch notes.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    That's awesome!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Thats great! I'm gonna try it now!

    edit: wait I cant...I dont have friends
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    KrispyG wrote:
    Thats great! I'm gonna try it now!

    edit: wait I cant...I dont have friends

    Awww. We're youre friends Krispy. =)


    Very cool though.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Interesting, will give it a go later on when time presents itself.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    ZOMG :O yummy <3.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    oh lord, more ways for me to be harassed ;)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    amazing. Now I'm going to have to download this tribble. it sounds like a much better game. :D ok all jerkness aside. that's great, and needed. it will make player to player chat better.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Please tell me there's a way to turn off reception of these without losing reception of inbound whispers....
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    I don't believe this is a real thing guys. Just a certain member's,who's particularly adept at photochopping, idea of a joke. =)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    I like this idea though :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    phyriall wrote: »
    I don't believe this is a real thing guys. Just a certain member's,who's particularly adept at photochopping, idea of a joke. =)

    how dare you spread such slanderous lies, i'm reporting you, go check it out on tribble yourself if you think it's not real. :rolleyes:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Love it - let's see it in production!

    Caymen
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Awesome,

    Now I will be able to call for your unconditional surrender.:)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    See? Now gold spammers have a face...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    See? Now gold spammers have a face...

    LOL ohh please no!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Wait, is this legit or a joke?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Wait, is this legit or a joke?
    joke. I tested tribble this morning - no such way to hail vessels.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Someone should have posted "It's a faaaaaaaaaaaaaaake!"
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Someone should have posted "It's a faaaaaaaaaaaaaaake!"

    Close enough?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    See? Now gold spammers have a face...
    Yar, if this were a real feature (it isn't, yet), I'd like it to use the same whitelist as email. Then it would be cool :)

    Especially if it used the "hailing" SFX from TNG :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Hailing others is pretty cool.

    Having the window that shows their picture look like a viewscreen would be AWESOME.

    Having this function on your bridge would be INCREDIBLY AWESOME.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Obsidius wrote: »
    Yar, if this were a real feature (it isn't, yet), I'd like it to use the same whitelist as email. Then it would be cool :)

    Especially if it used the "hailing" SFX from TNG :)

    I'd like this but beforehand, I think they need the little blinky lights both on our bridge hailing screens and in the hailing UI.

    They almost forgot that when they designed the Enterprise-E and it was supposedly a big deal internally with the designers at Paramount. Those blinky lights matter because they're one of the most iconic visual parts of Trek.

    I understand animated textures may not be possible in the engine but you could solve that by having a rotating disc with the light on it, viewable through a small hole/window in the bridge architecture beneath the viewscreen.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    lol so annoying, go my hopes up :mad:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    The better question: why not package it as a graphical frontend to do /tell or /whisper?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Vreenak is correct.

    For now, it's a faaaaa(aaaaaa)aaaake.


    However, it would be an awesome feature, and something we are talking about for the future. (no promises though)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    mhighison wrote: »
    Vreenak is correct.

    For now, it's a faaaaa(aaaaaa)aaaake.


    However, it would be an awesome feature, and something we are talking about for the future. (no promises though)

    I was actually thinking about this and I think I figured out how viewscreens would work. Can't you just have %-scaled up avatars floating in space behind an invisible wall where the viewscreen is? You just despawn the giant NPC and turn the lights off/move them when not in use.

    You could argue that might look "too 3D" but my understanding is that, canonically, the viewscreen is supposed to be 3D, like looking into the space you're viewing, but it doesn't always look that way on the show for filming and budget considerations.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Zodi-emish wrote:
    amazing. Now I'm going to have to download this tribble. it sounds like a much better game. :D ok all jerkness aside. that's great, and needed. it will make player to player chat better.

    It will make player chat better?


    we could do the same thing by choosing "private message", with no extra pop-up windows.

    I agree it looks more "Trek-ish", but I doubt it makes chat any "better"...


    But it does offer a unique looking interface for ship to ship chat.


    I just hope I have a choice on turning it off, since I don't like huge pop-up windows on, anything...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    mhighison wrote: »
    Vreenak is correct.

    For now, it's a faaaaa(aaaaaa)aaaake.


    However, it would be an awesome feature, and something we are talking about for the future. (no promises though)

    woot, dev response!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    mhighison wrote: »
    Vreenak is correct.

    For now, it's a faaaaa(aaaaaa)aaaake.


    However, it would be an awesome feature, and something we are talking about for the future. (no promises though)


    FIXED

    10char
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    mhighison wrote: »
    Vreenak is correct.

    For now, it's a faaaaa(aaaaaa)aaaake.


    However, it would be an awesome feature, and something we are talking about for the future. (no promises though)

    If you are condiering this; the background SHOULD be of us talking from our selected ship bridge layout. :D
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