Shields Shields, Tsk Tsk Tsk...

posted on February 10th, 2004, 11:20 pm

Okay. I just hated I mean [font=Optima]HATED[/font] the shields on the Armada games.

Green shields which gets redder as the shield gets depleted. I simply hated that. It is totally "untrekkiesh". Well, in Bridge Commander, They actaully had blue shield effects. For different races, they had different shield colors. But what is with Fleetp Ops? Its really not good. The battle is heated up, the shield really doesn't look good. And you will all say that the shield indicates that it shows how much damage it is done to a certain ship. Actually, it is really not needed. The color doesn't change noticeably until it goes down to 75%.

There is a 9/10 that you guys will get some kind of excuse and say that it is not part of the Fleet Ops program. But can you at least tell me what to do and how to change it?

posted on February 10th, 2004, 11:32 pm

yea, the shields should be blue then green, yellow then red. i think they did that to tell people that the shields are weaking. i would like if it was changed to blue, rather then green, yellow and red.

posted on February 10th, 2004, 11:35 pm

i'm not that fused

posted on February 11th, 2004, 12:01 am

i agree, a blue-green-yellow-red sheme would be a good compromise. the other question is, if it is possible in any way...

posted on February 11th, 2004, 12:16 am

It may not look that good but it makes sence cuz dont forget this is an rts not a movie.

posted on February 11th, 2004, 12:17 am

But the reason that FO exists is that it was to have realism and strategy!

posted on February 11th, 2004, 12:20 am

i agree

posted on February 11th, 2004, 12:38 am

If you look closely in the battles in DS9 you'll see instead of the greenish or blueish glow they would add an explosion along the sheild grid. I'm not saying that this should be the case for Fl Ops, but just mentioning it. I would like to see the blue to green to yellow to red change in Fl Ops.

posted on February 11th, 2004, 1:02 am

If you want to talk about realism, then the whole idea for changing the color of the shields should be dropped. No color order depending on damage to it. In the show, there was always 1 color for a different race's shield. Feds were blue. Klingons were red. Romulans were green. And the borg had no shields noticable. There was always talk about shield grids and stuff about a borg ship, but it always looked like it was hitting just armor.

And when the shields weakened, it would show the shields buckle a little before failing, but they never turned from green, to yellow, to red. That is the true realism of the shields.

posted on February 11th, 2004, 5:37 am

mh we are planing new hit effects with hit explosions for beta4. i now the shield color is a very hot topic ;-) perhaps it will be possible to change it to race specific colors and make an option for the launcher to switch between the classic damage indicators and the race colored shields... but that's all a big perhaps cause the shields are not that easy to modify

posted on February 11th, 2004, 9:51 pm

If you look closely in the battles in DS9 you'll see instead of the greenish or blueish glow they would add an explosion along the sheild grid. I'm not saying that this should be the case for Fl Ops, but just mentioning it. I would like to see the blue to green to yellow to red change in Fl Ops.

Actually, adding the shield effectson DS9 fleet battles was far too expensive. They made it just explode around it. That explains why there doesn't seem to have shields

[DOCa Cola]

posted on February 11th, 2004, 9:54 pm

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more explosions, more action

posted on February 11th, 2004, 10:04 pm

True, but it seemed that one photon torpedo coiuld heavily damage a ship.