Elaborate balloon designs

[Mezhu]

Additional decals, possibly custom-made or clan-exclusive have been suggested in the past. Current decals are fine-looking and everything- however their small number condemns them to fail their purpose of making ships feel unique and recognizable. I'd like to suggest an improvement to the balloon customization system, as it's been already implemented by many games in the past.

The system I'm suggesting relies on having a big number of premade decals which can be used in combination with a multi-dye system and color scheme options to provide creative freedom and much-needed variety.

Below is an example from Guild Wars- there you can choose your emblem, but also it's color, the background color and the outline color.


Similary in Chivalry, when customizing your character you get to pick an emblem, a paint pattern and a combination of 3 colours to further toy with.


I think that such a system would be a vast improvement to the current one. If it also were easily updatable with new decals and schemes (which are not that time-consuming to make and can be even community-made) every so often, it would provide a very cost-efficient added value that's going to be even more relevant with Adventure Mode's release. It could also be used as the basis for the creation for rare, exclusive items which could be given as rewards to individuals for tournament/ladder rankings, event participation etc.

[Schwalbe]

This would be a nice idea - give captains to customize their ship as much as you can do with your character.

I like this idea.

[Indreams]

Can't wait for this and the steam workshop.

I haven't bought any emblems because they really don't give customization.

If emblems are expended, I will spend so much money on GOIO, LOL bankruptcies will be a joke. 

[Hoja Lateralus]

I approve
I want
Nothing else to say

[shaelyn]

I approve
I want
Nothing else to say

yup.  pretty much.  +1.

[DJ Logicalia]

Yes.

[sparklerfish]

Steam workshop has been coming "next week" for like a month and a half now.

I'm beginning to doubt it'll ever happen.

[shaelyn]

it is halfway through the week, isn't it.  and Howard pinky swore!  ...we'll see...he's got two days...

[Caprontos]

it is halfway through the week, isn't it.  and Howard pinky swore!  ...we'll see...he's got two days...

Stone cold lead pipe lock guarantee..

[Schwalbe]

I know what I'd put on my goldfish's ballon:



( my goldfish is called POLAN CAN INTO SPACE )

[sparklerfish]

It's going to be fun to ask in the Fireside Chat tomorrow whether steam workshop is coming "next week" for the fifth time.

They probably hate seeing my name pop up in chat by now.

[shaelyn]

LOL!  I actually emailed Howard yesterday about it.

From: Howard T [mailto:howard@musegames.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2014 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: steam workshop

I know, I was just pondering this this morning.  I'm sweating now. 
My neck is in the noose!  Tomorrow should be it. 

Well, where we're hung up exactly right now is actually deploying that client to Steam.  And Steam's dev admin thing went down today, argh.  So kinda stuck at the moment.  Once Steam comes back up, we deploy ok, we should be able to take the whole thing live. 


On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 1:19 PM:
hey Howard,

you promised, man.  pinky swore.  is this coming out later this afternoon or tomorrow?