ship coloring

[sharkyhmh]

posted on June 24th, 2011, 9:20 pm

Last edited by sharkyhmh on June 24th, 2011, 9:21 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I know this might sound noobish, so prepare yourselves.

So I have issues figuring out who is who during large battles sometimes, and I was wondering if there could be a way to put more team colors onto the ships to make them much easier to distinguish from each other.
It might be better if this was just a setting change, so that people could switch it back and forth if people don't like the color change.

posted on June 24th, 2011, 9:25 pm

Honestly I'd prefer if the ship tags (the faction designation with colors) would be toggleable, as they only appear currently if hovering a unit or if the unit is damaged.

I really dislike team colors on ships to be honest, and that feature was removed from units years ago as well 

posted on June 24th, 2011, 9:28 pm

Most Borg ships still have team colors, they're just disabled and the toggle was removed. I wish they'd bring that back, it looked good on their ships with the interior glow changing color.

posted on June 24th, 2011, 9:33 pm

The toggle is in graphics options tyler.

posted on June 24th, 2011, 9:34 pm

Not anymore.

posted on June 24th, 2011, 9:44 pm

I just noticed that. That sucks

posted on June 24th, 2011, 9:49 pm

Team colors on the ships is the best way to see who's winning.  Fortunately, go to "C:Documents and SettingsApplication DataStar Trek Armada II Fleet Operations" and there is an INI file that allows you to turn team colors back on.

posted on June 24th, 2011, 9:51 pm

I know this might sound noobish, so prepare yourselves.

So I have issues figuring out who is who during large battles sometimes, and I was wondering if there could be a way to put more team colors onto the ships to make them much easier to distinguish from each other.
It might be better if this was just a setting change, so that people could switch it back and forth if people don't like the color change.

That's not noobish, I can totally understand that. It can get very confusing if your teammate and your enemy have the same race and you are in a large battle. I once lost many ships because I thought my side was winning until I realized that only enemy ships were left  .

posted on June 24th, 2011, 9:54 pm

Yeah, it's not fair taking out team color.  It should be put back on all units.

posted on June 24th, 2011, 10:23 pm

Maybe Tyler's Weapons Mod is somewhat suitable for this?
Phaser/Laser blasts would be the player's color. Though it won't work on Borg ships I'm afraid.
Still, it's something useful in my opinion.

posted on June 24th, 2011, 10:26 pm

The weapon color mod works on Borg ships, I have an image in the thread if a Probe with a red Cutting beam.

posted on June 24th, 2011, 10:28 pm

Weapon color config changes work on all sprite weapons - that's all beam weapons and a (few) torpedo weapons

posted on June 24th, 2011, 10:35 pm

We don't use Lasers, Denarius, this is Star Trek. There was only one episode where they used Lasers and those were rubbish .

posted on June 24th, 2011, 10:40 pm

Haha. Whatever. The original series had lasers
Anyways, you got the point didn't you? That's what counts.

posted on June 24th, 2011, 10:42 pm

Wasn't that only in the first pilot?