Interface field

posted on June 7th, 2012, 10:26 am

Hello every body!
Man, long time no see
I played just te FO back, becaus I was lissing it.
So I play the borg .... man to long time xD haha

Back on topic.

What I have see,
when the ship lost his shields, its flashing, but not on the interface
Every faction have "light" on the interface
see on the img with the red circles

the idea is that when the shield goos down, to soft flashing the interface field

what do you think about it?

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posted on June 7th, 2012, 3:02 pm

I'm afraid I'm not entirely sure what it is you are asking..

posted on June 7th, 2012, 3:18 pm

I think he means those lights on the interface that he highlighted start to flash when shields go down. I like the idea, though with each light for a different subsystem.

Would probably take some work.

posted on June 7th, 2012, 10:20 pm

Indeed Tyler

When your shield is going to collapsing, your ship's shield will little flashing.
My idea was, do the same on the interface "led" / "light" field.

That wil be very nice, that is what i missing in the game :$
I thing it well feels little more real

And in each faction like borg, fed, kling, and rom ( + for the later faction?

posted on June 8th, 2012, 2:30 pm

for borg it would be green so it could flash red if the system went down completely and maybe flash between red and green if its only down temporarly. with the klinks it would be it flashes yellow or something since their color is red.

posted on June 8th, 2012, 3:36 pm

It would be a very cool effect, but I"m not entirely sure its possible, and weather it would be appropriate. Maybe only if the one ship you selected is damaged, but what if you have a bunch of ships selected, or even a different ship selected but one onscreen is damaged. what would it do?

Overall, I think it is too complicated a feature for a RTS game, but It sure is a neat idea.

posted on June 8th, 2012, 3:52 pm

Overall, I think it is too complicated a feature for a RTS game, but It sure is a neat idea.

I'm sure you remember that stock A2 had this exact feature, making the wireframe flash when a system is down. FO is still capable of doing that. The problem is making the thing big enough to fill the entire interface and making the correct area flash in the right color.

A group could easily be sorted by going back to the LCARS-style wireframe images. Not likely to happen though, because what idiot thinks telling what ship lost which system is a good idea?

posted on June 10th, 2012, 10:22 pm

The FO can do this! very sure of this.
I was talking about one ship, not a bunch.

With a bunch, you have a normal interface, you can see each ship's status bar. ( normal )