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Displaying fields of fire.
Twinkie D-Lite:
OK, we can make it even easier then. Buy a mic and use these simple phrases.
Need left rotation
Need right rotation
Target to high
Target to low
Thaago:
Ah, I think you may just be misunderstanding the suggestion - this isn't about helping the pilot get guns in arc while flying. This is a suggestion just for the design screen to aid in making builds with overlapping fields of fire. None of these arcs would show up in game - the gunners would still need to tell the pilot to turn if they were out of arc.
As a point of reference, there are 161051 different gun combinations on a Mobula - realistically its 32768 when taking out flares, harpoons, and mine launchers. Even further drastic reductions come from common sense building principles. Checking out which combinations give double and triple firing spots quickly on the several hundred interesting combos sounds like a valuable thing to me *shrug*.
Twinkie D-Lite:
I got it. We went into the sandbox and saw what we needed to see. It took about 5 minutes. We did the same thing with a galleon so the pilot coud get a visual of where they need to be. Its called putting a little effort into it, Its been dumbed down enough, I mean we even have gun movement with a lochanger round. Easy is boring.
naufrago:
--- Quote from: Twinkie D-Lite on August 17, 2013, 10:02:42 am ---I got it. We went into the sandbox and saw what we needed to see. It took about 5 minutes. We did the same thing with a galleon so the pilot coud get a visual of where they need to be. Its called putting a little effort into it, Its been dumbed down enough, I mean we even have gun movement with a lochanger round. Easy is boring.
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So your logic is "Why should we make it only take a few seconds to check gun arcs when we can already do it in a way that takes a few minutes?" We can already check the gun arcs by firing up the Sandbox. This is just making it quicker to check what we already can. I don't understand why you hate the idea of a convenient, time-saving feature.
Xarvier:
--- Quote from: Kharthynogus on August 16, 2013, 05:18:46 pm ---I just want to be clear: I don't think ANY of us suggested having the fields of fire display as part of the HUD. That would just be silly.
We were suggesting it for the ship customization screen.
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I totally agree with this suggestion.
I'm a new player, but that is one of the first things I thought about when looking at the ship customization screen.
Viewing solid angles could be confusing in the 3D interface, but even a few 2D schematics would be helpful (e.g. TOP, PORT, STERN).
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