Guns Of Icarus Online

Off-Topic => The Pit => Topic started by: Ariden on February 16, 2014, 04:21:46 pm

Title: A New Day for GOIO
Post by: Ariden on February 16, 2014, 04:21:46 pm
Hi everyone, hi Muse.

I want to bring up something that may seem a little outdated however had a huge importance to me, therefore I'd politely like to bring it up for discussion once more for your consideration.

Firstly I'd like to post a quote I found on the forums from ImaginationMan on 2012:

"The only issue I can see with this game's design is the lack of boarding. Just an open question to the developers: Why did you guys decide to leave out boarding?"

Please note that this quote has been around since 2012.

I, as a player, began this game in 2013 (February 23, 2013 to be exact). The issue of boarding was still not brought to the plate and as I can see from this post that it has never been. I was really disappointed to see there wasn't a thread already brought up about this conversation, therefore I'd like to start one now. This has been very disappointing to me in general in regards to the game.

In hopes that you will resurface this issue I made my own personal design. Please, please take it into consideration. I have discussed it in depth with my clanmates and they all support me on this incredible issue. Also they approve of the design, as I am in high hopes that you will as well.

(http://i.imgur.com/wetQLXJ.jpg)

Thank you for everything you've done for us, your players.

Ariden, representative of the SAC community.
Title: Re: A New Day for GOIO
Post by: Javrak on February 16, 2014, 04:27:29 pm
Oh wow, my mind, blown.
Title: Re: A New Day for GOIO
Post by: ramjamslam on February 16, 2014, 04:28:13 pm
I support this idea :D.

I can see a lot of possibilities with flaming boards with incendiary rounds or burst rounds which have boards with lots of splinters!  Also, awesome drawing Ariden!
Title: Re: A New Day for GOIO
Post by: communistpony on February 16, 2014, 04:28:38 pm
I definitely support this. I don't know how many times my gun has been shot out and I have wanted to just come up and hit them off of their ship! Boards just make the perfect sense to do this.
Title: Re: A New Day for GOIO
Post by: THE FERRYMAN on February 16, 2014, 04:29:52 pm
good idea ;D
Title: Re: A New Day for GOIO
Post by: Richard LeMoon on February 16, 2014, 04:33:25 pm
If you pile enough boards on their ship, let's call it 'lumber', it should start getting into the crew's way and perhaps tripping them. A tripping animation should not be too hard to do. Maybe if you got like 100 piles of lumber on the enemy ship, it would cause them to sink without constant use of the W key. To get rid of all the extra wood, engies would have a new 'beaver' tool to eat all the wood.

Also, I just noticed that the barrel on your concept is round, while the boards are squared. The gun would be for more efficient if it had a rectangular barrel. The concept is sound, though, as evident by this old photo of early boarding gun tests.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Tri-State_Tornado_damage_board_thru_plank.jpg)
Title: Re: A New Day for GOIO
Post by: Tropo on February 16, 2014, 04:38:29 pm
omg this is amazing i have always wonder why people related boarding to air buccaneers because i couldn't find any guns like this on buccaneers.
and i don't usually agree with my mate richard but i have to agree this is awesome not sure if its just the art work or the actaul idea it's self

aredan your art is always epic keep  up the amazing idea's
Title: Re: A New Day for GOIO
Post by: ramjamslam on February 16, 2014, 04:42:46 pm
Quote from: Richard LeMoon II on February 16, 2014, 04:33:25 pm
If you pile enough boards on their ship, let's call it 'lumber', it should start getting into the crew's way and perhaps tripping them.

So maybe we should call it something like the 'Lumber Flak', what do you think?  If it was a heavy weapon (lumber is heavy) then you could have one side of a galleon with a lumberjack and a lumberflak.  Lumber Jack takes down the balloon and Lumber Flak trips up the crew so they can't climb the stairs to get to the balloon.
Title: Re: A New Day for GOIO
Post by: Madi Lee on February 16, 2014, 04:48:38 pm
This is an issue that has always burdened the very synapses of my brain. The solution is so clear now. Thank you very much for this stunning input. Hopefully, proper consideration will be taken so the people will get what we want and what we deserve.
Title: Re: A New Day for GOIO
Post by: Ariden on February 16, 2014, 04:55:08 pm
Thank you all for your wonderful input to this concerning issue, please keep your comments coming. I am writing everything down and carefully exploring each detail. This could be a new possibility for GOIO as a community and as a game!
Title: Re: A New Day for GOIO
Post by: JaegerDelta on February 16, 2014, 05:24:26 pm
ARIDEN IS RIGHT!

It's time we, as players, take a stand and let muse know what we want. Boarding has always been dismissed as too much to implement or too hard to balance. Well no more! WE WANT BOARDING AND WE WANT IT NOW! I hardly think one extra gun would be too hard to implement and balance. They added the Hades with no major problems. Even the Mobula was added without much difficulty at all. GIVE US BOARDING OR GIVE US DEATH!
Title: Re: A New Day for GOIO
Post by: Tropo on February 16, 2014, 06:19:14 pm
jaegerdelta
 i agree with every thing you said you seem very passionate about boarding but i don't want to see guns of icarus commuity turn in to some sort of lynch mob crazed for muse blood
Title: Re: A New Day for GOIO
Post by: Milevan Faent on February 16, 2014, 06:23:47 pm
Quote from: JaegerDelta on February 16, 2014, 05:24:26 pm
ARIDEN IS RIGHT!

It's time we, as players, take a stand and let muse know what we want. Boarding has always been dismissed as too much to implement or too hard to balance. Well no more! WE WANT BOARDING AND WE WANT IT NOW! I hardly think one extra gun would be too hard to implement and balance. They added the Hades with no major problems. Even the Mobula was added without much difficulty at all. GIVE US BOARDING OR GIVE US DEATH!

Are you insane? Why did you give them an option aside from giving us boarding?
Title: Re: A New Day for GOIO
Post by: Swizy on February 16, 2014, 07:44:00 pm
I take tree of these please.

But seriously guys, leaf this to the devs to decide. They wood have implemented it already if they could. it's not OaK to bark at them fir tree or more days.
Title: Re: A New Day for GOIO
Post by: Milevan Faent on February 16, 2014, 10:05:23 pm
Quote from: Swizy on February 16, 2014, 07:44:00 pm
I take tree of these please.

But seriously guys, leaf this to the devs to decide. They wood have implemented it already if they could. it's not OaK to bark at them fir tree or more days.
You can only use so many puns before it just becomes too much. This was one pun short of that.
Title: Re: A New Day for GOIO
Post by: Oliver Colt on February 16, 2014, 10:08:23 pm
Quote from: Milevan Faent on February 16, 2014, 10:05:23 pm
Quote from: Swizy on February 16, 2014, 07:44:00 pm
I take tree of these please.

But seriously guys, leaf this to the devs to decide. They wood have implemented it already if they could. it's not OaK to bark at them fir tree or more days.
You can only use so many puns before it just becomes too much. This was one pun short of that.
I swear for a moment I thought they were just typos, it definitely needs one more pun xD
Title: Re: A New Day for GOIO
Post by: Wundsalz on February 17, 2014, 04:41:19 am
I wonder why muse is so reluctant when it comes to boarding... I really don't see their point when they argue it'd be hard to balance or even add an entirely new gameplay which was hard to combine with the current one.
If it's really that hard to balance a new weapon at least give us cosmetic gadgets, like boarding goggles!
(http://www.life.de/sites/default/files/media/cache/images/title/192590-Brett-vor-dem-Kopf.jpg)
Title: Re: A New Day for GOIO
Post by: macmacnick on February 17, 2014, 04:48:45 am
WHY IS EVERYONE TALKING ABOUT BOARDS, AND NEVER MENTIONING THE SUFFERING THE PLANKS GO THROUGH? The Planks are feeling discriminated against. #Construtionmaterialracism.
(http://www.tenorama.com/sites/default/files/fotoranking/planking18.jpg)
(http://www.littlebigtrend.com/wp-content/gallery/planking/Planking-pony.jpg)
(http://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/planking-20110516-183935.jpg)
(http://www.planking.me/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/planking-e1334169637885.jpg)
(http://www.cnn.com/video/world/2011/05/17/pkg.australia.planking.death.networkten.640x480.jpg)
Title: Re: A New Day for GOIO
Post by: Imagine on February 17, 2014, 11:25:16 am
Ok see, now this really belongs in The Pit.
Title: Re: A New Day for GOIO
Post by: JaegerDelta on February 17, 2014, 12:45:18 pm
Quote from: Imagine on February 17, 2014, 11:25:16 am
Ok see, now this really belongs in The Pit.

(http://i.imgur.com/lvqfSLO.jpg)
Title: Re: A New Day for GOIO
Post by: Oliver Colt on February 17, 2014, 01:07:19 pm
Quote from: Imagine on February 17, 2014, 11:25:16 am
Ok see, now this really belongs in The Pit.
Did someone call? >:3
Title: Re: A New Day for GOIO
Post by: N-Sunderland on February 17, 2014, 01:22:48 pm
And down to The Pit this goes! Make sure to only have serious threads up in Feedback, guys :)
Title: Re: A New Day for GOIO
Post by: Jawjee on February 17, 2014, 02:01:02 pm
*Breaks through the pit wall*
JAWJEE IS HERE!
Title: Re: A New Day for GOIO
Post by: Oliver Colt on February 17, 2014, 02:10:38 pm
Quote from: N-Sunderland on February 17, 2014, 01:22:48 pm
And down to The Pit this goes! Make sure to only have serious threads up in Feedback, guys :)
yeah i tend to have that effect on threads :/

Quote from: Jawjee on February 17, 2014, 02:01:02 pm
*Breaks through the pit wall*
JAWJEE IS HERE!
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY :D
Title: Re: A New Day for GOIO
Post by: Andika on February 17, 2014, 03:54:46 pm
Wait! So THAT gun is what all the infamous boarding talk refers to!!??! I always assumed what Muse didn't want to implement was THIS:

(http://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/thumb/0/0e/GinGout_hover-billboard.jpg/300px-GinGout_hover-billboard.jpg)
Title: Re: A New Day for GOIO
Post by: Oliver Colt on February 17, 2014, 04:11:38 pm
Quote from: Andika on February 17, 2014, 03:54:46 pm
Wait! So THAT gun is what all the infamous boarding talk refers to!!??! I always assumed what Muse didn't want to implement was THIS:

(http://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/thumb/0/0e/GinGout_hover-billboard.jpg/300px-GinGout_hover-billboard.jpg)
OMG ALL THOSE ADS D:


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Title: Re: A New Day for GOIO
Post by: Ariden on February 17, 2014, 04:31:51 pm
A non serious thread? I am shocked.

This matter does have some (rather high) degree of importance to me, as a player and us as a clan. I don't know what to think anymore, Sunderland. I'm very confused.

I was hoping to attain the support of Muse, a company which I myself have supported for over a year.

I'd like to request that this be returned without further question to the Feedback and Suggestion area of the forums.

Thank you.
Title: Re: A New Day for GOIO
Post by: Tropo on February 17, 2014, 04:51:35 pm
yeah looks like some trolls have come in and posted all sorts of off topic stuff. without realising how important boarding is i have always seen it as a real spilt in the community its sad really
Title: Re: A New Day for GOIO
Post by: Ariden on February 17, 2014, 05:02:10 pm
Quote from: Tropo on February 17, 2014, 04:51:35 pm
yeah looks like some trolls have come in and posted all sorts of off topic stuff. without realising how important boarding is i have always seen it as a real spilt in the community its sad really

I couldn't agree more, Tropo. I almost feel like crying over this horrible loss. Such a tragedy.
Title: Re: A New Day for GOIO
Post by: Piemanlives on February 17, 2014, 05:08:55 pm
Silence boarding heathens! Thou hast ne'er seen what boarding hast done!
Title: Re: A New Day for GOIO
Post by: ramjamslam on February 17, 2014, 05:17:00 pm
I would say Aridens original art is worth of a post in the Gallery somewhere, maybe the Fan Art thread.  Unfortunately though a whole thread just about boarding is considered 'The Pits' by polite society in this forum :(
Title: Re: A New Day for GOIO
Post by: Ariden on February 17, 2014, 07:54:34 pm
*curls up in bed and cries self to sleep*

Overkill? I think not.

And yes, thank you Ramicus. +1
Title: Re: A New Day for GOIO
Post by: Tropo on February 18, 2014, 01:48:07 am
i feel like the nexted step would be to start a email campaign

maybe we could start a protest and every one puts boarding cannon in there ship name
Title: Re: A New Day for GOIO
Post by: Skrimskraw on February 18, 2014, 08:09:50 am
Told you it would be Sunderland who moved it.
Title: Re: A New Day for GOIO
Post by: Tropo on February 18, 2014, 10:43:55 pm
lol