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Feedback and Suggestions / Re: Crew cosmetic slots..

« on: May 18, 2014, 06:05:29 pm »

Yeah, no.
This sounds like a bad idea.

The whole idea is that it's the captain's ship.
Therefore the captain picks the craft and weaponry and the design.

As others have mentioned, you run the risk of people joining & interfering with an aesthetic.
(Or deliberately picking things that have large potential to clash in order to irritate others.)
Which seems like a recipe for disruption.

Also, technically you could captain a ship without being a pilot and have someone else take over flying.
Might be a bit more awkward to arrange but seems easily done with a bit of communication or a willing friend.

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Feedback and Suggestions / Re: Automatons and Advertising

« on: May 18, 2014, 06:01:05 pm »

Ide love automatons as AI but not as a third gender. Because you can then see PLAYERS as important or something better than Bots, while automatons will always be indentified as Bots. Even in their visuals can make for a more forgiving experience because of the crappiness they deliver in theme with how they look.

... I'm not sure this was your intention, but the phrasing in your first sentence seems to suggest that binary gender is superior to alternatives?
(When that's.. potentially disrespectful to individuals and cultures that don't subscribe to that particular myth of male/female binary sex & gender.)
[Intersex, genderqueer, agender, etc. people all exist.]

Be cool to see a third gender option of any sort, I think.

& on the topic of automatons, I'm.. not sure it fits GoIO's world, but I wouldn't necessarily be opposed to the idea if they were either AI or an alternative to male/female.
(I do like steampunky robots; I'm just wary of shoehorning them in to GoIO. I like the current aesthetic/lore.)
Makes me think of Steam Powered Giraffe.

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Feedback and Suggestions / Re: Crazy weapon Idea! Why not mix defense with offense?

« on: May 18, 2014, 05:30:47 pm »

This seems a really interesting idea!
I'd love either the "sonic wave" OR the "bullet-stopping net" option.
Although I think the 'sonic wave' type would lend itself better towards having an offensive use, if one was close enough.
(I'm not sure I like the idea of a gun that wouldn't practically be able to do any actual damage; it would seem particularly biased towards certain ships & builds.)

Perhaps have it as a "sustained" barrier.
Sort of like generating successive waves to knock projectiles away if they fall into the cone of influence.
That way the enemy can strike whilst reloading is going on or they can hit it from a different angle or rely on simple human & mechanical inability to catch everything.

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News and Announcements / Re: Free item and sale to celebrate Pewdiepie's video!

« on: May 18, 2014, 05:08:21 pm »

(I know this topic is old but this section of the forums doesn't seem that active anyways and creating a new post would be frivolous and ignore the relevancy.)

"Pewdiepie" engages in misogyny, transphobia, racism, and various other forms of bigotry.
One particular offence is continually talking about how he will "rape"

• or how
• "raped" and just generally engaging in the sort of behaviour that is not only unacceptable to anyone that actually understands the severity and seriousness of such but also seems to completely go against everything the GoIO community and devs support and promote amongst the userbase.

I get that one generally doesn't want to turn away potential customers, but someone that engages in behaviour that would in all likelihood get them banned seems a rather disturbing sort to promote.

I tend to consider such prejudice and offensive/discriminatory language/behaviour to be reprehensible and not at all ethically defensible, so it strikes me as very odd to see a post in these forums tacitly (& perhaps explicitly with the "free item" ) supporting Pewdiepie.