While the primary feature of this game is ship customization (which i love) i feel rather restricted to the race ships. I would think that as you research new technology your avatar would change, or at the very least you be allowed to change the color of your ship. Even if its just the better shields you have the color changes, or at some point there is a ship customization artifact from a mission that lets you pick how the ship looks. I personally am an Inergon, and i would like to be able to change some things, like maybe change the cockpit head, or the look of the wings, or how the body looks. maybe like 3 or 4 options to choose from. This way the ship would be more, 'mine' and less generic.

really? no one likes this idea but me?

OK, because i seem to be talking to myself on here, i am going to expand on this idea. Looting actual Avatar pieces from NPCs. I personally think that the stryll ships look awesome, and the dark runners look pretty cool too. I personally would like to loot specific pieces from these ships, such as cockpit, wings, thrusters, body and so on. These pieces would be logged as "Unlocked" once they were found, and could be purchased for credits at any time, along with the ability to change their color. These avatar pieces would have to be rare, (MAYBE as rare as the lazuli parts vault, maybe not) considering you can only get them once, OR they could be an automatic drop on the first time you kill an enemy. This would encourage killing common/uncommon NPCs even if the reward is pretty lame.

Ship pieces MAY also have passive bonuses like a small increase to hull or a bonus shield multiplyer or something. I figure doing it this way would allow some of the higher ranks to burn some credits, because you can only do so much with money in the game.

That is a good idea. I suspect it might be difficult to program though...and it might be hard to tell what race a ship belongs to, but customization could definantly be a great advertising thing...I also think that you should be able to name your ship.

yeah, definitly with the naming thing, and besides, when you are displayed in the battle tab it says what you are, for example i am Vekno: Inergon Biologist, and then i would have my special ship displayed when you target me. As for ship naming, i am unsure where it would be displayed, other than simply writing it on the side of the avatar, kind of like the clan tag on the gun in CoD Black Ops (if anyone plays they know what i'm talking about).

While I think it unlikely that we get ship customization to the extent you are talking about, considering the amount of work involved on Dan's part, I would like to see some sort of change in the ship's image as your ship increases in size. Ie. there would be a discernible visual difference between the ship graphics of a frigate and a battleship and so on.

Naming ships would be a cool feature. Perhaps the name of your ship would appear in the battle tab instead of your name, and your name would only be visible to people in your legion, people you are 'friends' with, and people who's ship logs you appear on.

So if someone were to look at my ship page by clicking on it in the battle tab, they would see something like the following:

Ship Name
Rank
Ship Size Class
Race/Profession
Legion

But if someone in your legion, someone you are friends with, or someone who's log you are still on were to click your ships page either through a link on their comms or through the battle tab, they would see the following.

Player Name
Ship Name
Rank
Ship Size Class
Race/Profession
Legion

I think everyone is either overestimating or underestimating Dans involvement with this game. Either he has a full time job and does this in his spare time for extra cash, or this is his full time job and his entire salary relies on this game.

IF he has a full time job and this is a spare time thing, i see no reason for him NOT to impliment the Artifacts for GP idea in another thread.

IF this is his full time job and he relies on this game for his salary, then there is no reason he shouldnt spend time coding out this kind of stuff.

Besides. if he WAS to impliment this then he could offer PREMIUM ship parts which the dysonians could pay for and make even MORE money.

He could have parts that could be bought with Galaxy Points...he also could have parts that are like modules...but only give small bonuses. Like, "Zolazin Refraction Wings-adds 5 points to cloak" or "Prejor Phase Plating-adds five hull points" etc. It would also make your ship look cool...why you could even research new parts just to make your ship look epic.

exactly. thats what i was trying to get at. lol. it would be so epic!!!!

Wouldn't it be? Where's Webguydan's opinion on this?

i dunno. how long does it usually take for him to respond to posts? ive posted 5 ideas in less than a 24 hour period. It may be 'spamming' but i think theyre pretty legit ideas. Id love to see them all implimented.

This is an interesting idea but in truth would not affect why most players love this game. I personally would prefer his upgrading time be spent on making the games play more interesting than a pretty ship.

well, unless his upgrading time is going to be spent on making it easier to get more decks, i cant really do anything new in the game, as i have more NPC mods than i have space for. i still need to gain 8 levels JUST to install all the NPC mods, and im going to need another 10 alone for all the weaponry ive researched while leveling to get the NPC mods installed. I would very much prefer the pretty ship with a ton of extra pieces to another dry technical update to pvp or something.

Webguydan, please post a reply if you have read this idea thread, just as a confirmation. Thankyou.

Im goin to have to ask you to leave the posting to the experts

then please post. seems ur too busy in the other forums arguing...

1 you have no clue what I'm doing.
2 this has been suggested before .
3 learn to take a joke .

hmm, well i only read the ideas up to 10 pages back, and if i posted it again maybe dan will take it seriously. and sorry i guess, as i could not tell you are joking, nor did i know you were so complex that i could have no idea what you are doing...

I love it, But I have to consider a small change...

Instead of picking how your ship looks like right off, It should come gradually with your ship size.
From say you are currently a cruiser sized vessel. You have 2-3 options on how your ship looks like. When reaching battleship, you have another set of 2-3 choices. Thus making sure a fighter sized craft does not look like Titan...

I LOVE all of your customization ideas, but honestly think that the sizing should come first before letting us chose the sets.
(there are alot of different races to chose from and Dan has enough on his hands Im sure >_<)

Now this is an idea for ship avatar I can get behind. Having 2 choices for each of the major size groups; scout, frigid, cruiser, battleship and so on. Much more workable than being able to change all sorts of things on the ship. This would give those who care about how their ship looks some ability to choose without making it a ship beauty pageant. While I still don't see this as an issue that I really see a great need for if they could add this in while working on some of the game playability ideas it would be an enjoyable side feature.