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Feedback and Suggestions / Re: Ship horns, for when your fellow captain won't stop ramming you.

« on: June 14, 2014, 08:53:01 am »

Dixie horn (If your ship has one of these, you might be a redneck)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88lJSIncLFQ

That is the sound of death.

Foghorn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6hOBVaMGFI

Seems about perfect for the Northern Fjords.

Model T horn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlyXjAwIb-g

So that's where the sound comes from. Never realized it, to be quite honest with you.

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Feedback and Suggestions / Ship horns, for when your fellow captain won't stop ramming you.

« on: June 13, 2014, 06:58:17 pm »

Imagine La Cucaracha being the last sounds before a galleon emerges from the clouds and rams straight into a squid, life flashing before the eyes of their humble crew as the pieces of ship fall straight to earth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0pf_0cFbVo

Or maybe wind chimes to scare the bajeezus out of an enemy crew.

Perhaps a vuvuzela to give it that sporting feel, or the siren of some goliath.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf2P8SnOwLo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7oV-tldNMc

Maybe we could sound a submarine alarm before we start diving the ships, shrapnel exploding around us as the captain frantically tries to bring it out of range.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u95E__3TSN0

It would give the ships and captains a lot of character, although it's a bit different than the typical "cosmetics" present. But, for vehicles, I think this just may be the essential personal expression of a steamship crew in combat. Also, it seems to fit quite nicely into the lore, although we would need to make them more worldly than the examples pasted here.

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Feedback and Suggestions / Re: Ship Cosmetics Wishlist

« on: June 13, 2014, 06:38:40 pm »

Wishlist, huh?
<s>
Santa developers, all I want is a golden statue honouring my engineers and a proper timepiece for the vessel.
</s>

In more seriousness, a colour coded hull would be nice. But probably unneeded. I need to think more about this.

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Feedback and Suggestions / Progression Request: Reducing/Removing Capture Points from Pilot Achievements.

« on: June 13, 2014, 06:20:20 pm »

Seeing that control point has been removed from the list of game modes, I would like to request that capturing control points be removed from the relevant progression achievements of pilots, seeing that the only remaining modes are the extremely time intensive King of the Hill and Crazy King Modes.

Last time I played, the match went on for three hours with most of the crews abandoning, and the pilots playing it as a team deathmatch. It was terrible, and not an isolated incident, especially when the other captains fail to use the cross ship communications channel, even through text chat.

Is it possible? I'm aware it might not be possible to change achievements retroactively, although it is impeding my ability to progress to higher ranks of skills.

It's just that I'd rather not grind through several dozen matches of King of the Hill to get that progression piece in so that I can get to the other ones within that category, even though there are alternate routes to increasing level.

I'm also quite aware that it's a social rank, above all, with limited impact towards actual content within the game, serving more as a badge of long hours fought in the high skies.

Edit: In retrospect, I was playing King of the Hill wrong.