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Feedback and Suggestions / Invisible ships... wat?

« on: December 24, 2014, 03:59:52 am »

So I don't think this is a new thing exactly, but I couldn't find a topic on it. Sometimes (usually in desert scrap) a ship entering cloud will vanish entirely, even if you are literally within spitting ditance, or ever clipping slightly during a ram. That's ridiculous. If you can see it through the particle effects (which are pretty realistic), you can see it. More recently I've seen ships popping in and out of existence when they were nowhere near any clouds, in a clear sky over Fernfeld. One second they're in weapons range, the next, they're invisible, even if you can still hit them.

I don't know if this is a rendering bug, or if it's a deliberate balance thing to overcome the smoke/chemspray thing making ships too visible through clouds. If that's the case, wouldn't it be better to just make those particle FX vanish when the ship enters cloud? Then the silhouette of the ship would still be visible to a keen eye, but the giveaway chemspray FX would not be glowing through the mist. It's pretty minor, but it is certainly annoying.

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Feedback and Suggestions / Unreadable chat text!

« on: November 09, 2014, 06:35:10 am »

I almost forgot to mention this one. Currently, the chat text (names) is pretty much illegible on some maps because the text is too dark and desaturated, so you can only be sure who's talking when it's either a friend or a CA, or a spectator. The red and blue text just doesn't work, so half the time you have to rotate your view to hold the chat box up against just the right bit of sky or cliff so that the colours contrast enough. Could you guys brighten it up a bit and make it more legible?

Cheers.

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Feedback and Suggestions / Suggestion: Languages and communication.

« on: November 08, 2014, 09:15:45 am »

So quite often I find that the mute noob who's been causing me to chew the keyboard in frustration simply does not speak English, and so ignores all communication. Occasionally, you get one who has the decency to say "No english sorry, Rassia" or something similar.

On those occasions, I usually alt-tab out to google translate, and throw in a few instructions in their native language. This often works well (though you can't select the text of their replies in chat, so you will only be able to instruct, not converse)

My suggestion is that each player has to choose from a pull-down menu of which languages they can/prefer to speak. This would enable people to be paired up with people they could speak to (if they set that preference), and those they couldn't speak to would either be able to use a translator or at least understand why the noob is not getting off the gun no matter how much you shout at him.

Just an idea.

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Feedback and Suggestions / Only 3 rematches remaining...

« on: November 08, 2014, 08:56:44 am »

What? Noooo!

Seriously, this feature has ruined good lobbies for me. If you join a game with friends, and the ships shuffle about, after the third game, you might end up on the wrong team and have to back out to lobby and start all over again. Really, I don't understand this feature at all. If you're having fun in a lobby, why get forced out of it after 3 matches? It's turning into a session-ender for me.

Also, It was a curious decision to have the default option at the end of a match as 'return to crew form' rather than 'rematch'. 99% of the time, I want to rematch. If I don't, I will just leave the lobby and re-crew manually. Forcing you out of the game just makes me realise that I have more important stuff I should be getting on with. I'm sure there's some logic behind it, but I really can't see it.