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What's up with the over-sized upside down UFP emblems?

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Why is it that, unless we have a fleet emblem, we have huge upside-down United Federation of Planets emblems?

I'm trying hard to remember if any Trek ships had them in any series and I really can't remember any Starfleet ships that did, much less ones that were flipped.

Why have we had them for so long, and since we apparently have to have them, why are they still wrong way up?

Perhaps an alternative idea would be to get rid of the big UFP emblem, entirely, and go with an alternative. Perhaps go ahead and add the Starfleet arrowhead and stripes to all of the ships (and for the canon ships, make it look like it should) and then give us the option of replacing the Starfleet arrowhead with our fleet emblem.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    This. SO. MUCH. THIS.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Why is it that, unless we have a fleet emblem, we have huge upside-down United Federation of Planets emblems?

    I'm trying hard to remember if any Trek ships had them in any series and I really can't remember any Starfleet ships that did, much less ones that were flipped.



    Point taken. It has been added to our "to do" list.

    Thanks.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    I seem to recall someone mentioning that the devs were going to try to get the Starfleet emblem, like the one on the Excelsior model, to all ships... I would be a big fan of that.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    The Fleet Emblem and the Decals do not work the same. The arrowhead and striping are built to the model and are not adjustable by the player. However, we are planning to add those to all of the Fed ships.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    The Fleet Emblem and the Decals do not work the same. The arrowhead and striping are built to the model and are not adjustable by the player. However, we are planning to add those to all of the Fed ships.

    Allow me to say, "THANK YOU!!!" We've been waiting for those to be added to the models for a while now, and no Federation Starship looks complete without them. Especially on the Galaxy Class Nacelles.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    The Fleet Emblem and the Decals do not work the same. The arrowhead and striping are built to the model and are not adjustable by the player. However, we are planning to add those to all of the Fed ships.

    Nice! Thanks for the quick reply.

    Question for anyone: I don't have an Excelsior, so I don't know how they work... are they usable with the paint jobs we currently have?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Felderburg wrote: »
    Nice! Thanks for the quick reply.

    Question for anyone: I don't have an Excelsior, so I don't know how they work... are they usable with the paint jobs we currently have?

    Yes u can use the current paint options on them.

    .
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Point taken. It has been added to our "to do" list.

    Thanks.

    Awesome! Thanks mtattersall! :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    If / when you do get the Starfleet emblems going, we should be able to select whether it is operations, science, command, or blank. ;)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    The Fleet Emblem and the Decals do not work the same. The arrowhead and striping are built to the model and are not adjustable by the player. However, we are planning to add those to all of the Fed ships.

    One question comes to mind:

    While understandably, the stripes on the ships should be predefined and not editable by the players, will the arrowhead itself be customizable ? Perhaps a modest selection of the canon arrowhead designs as well as a few Cryptic-inspired designs?

    The TNG-era arrowhead for example, looks nothing like the VOY-era arrowhead.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    The Fleet Emblem and the Decals do not work the same. The arrowhead and striping are built to the model and are not adjustable by the player. However, we are planning to add those to all of the Fed ships.

    Please tell me you'll eventually get around to removing the need to have some sort of Emblem and give us a "None" option!

    I'm sick of seeing that UFP emblem on my ships, it wasn't on the saucer of the Enterprise and it wasn't on any other ship. I don't want it :(
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Powerhelm wrote: »
    Please tell me you'll eventually get around to removing the need to have some sort of Emblem and give us a "None" option!

    I'm sick of seeing that UFP emblem on my ships, it wasn't on the saucer of the Enterprise and it wasn't on any other ship. I don't want it :(

    Agreed. I really would just like the option to have no emblem/logo/decal. This has been requested before and dstahl himself said it was a good idea although we haven't heard anything about it since.
    dstahl wrote: »
    This is a good suggestion and I'll need to see if there is a technical reason why we don't currently allow none. If the ships can be made to allow "none" then we'll see what we can do.

    http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=179583&highlight=decals
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    The Fleet Emblem and the Decals do not work the same. The arrowhead and striping are built to the model and are not adjustable by the player. However, we are planning to add those to all of the Fed ships.

    For what it is worth, if it is not to much trouble, I would love to be able to scale my fleet logo as well as control its placement like we can do for our toon tattoos.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    The Fleet Emblem and the Decals do not work the same. The arrowhead and striping are built to the model and are not adjustable by the player. However, we are planning to add those to all of the Fed ships.

    Though it would be neat if the striping could be made to be built into the model and the arrowhead be lifted from the map and replaced with a replaceable version of itself (like the current UFP logo). That way we could replace the arrowhead with our fleet emblem.
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