Create a Faction

[danando]

i think there should be a create a faction feature where you make a faction name/flag design/special unit   so when your online playing online itll be more cool to recognise your faction (plus you could have an faction board on the forums ) mayb have the AI option to have factions that specify in certain features (just the same as turtle etc )   a flag or IMAGE will make a good addition to recognise ) if not have TURTLE have the flag of a turtle etc

[Lancefighter]

it would be kinda interesting if bigships has a team flag as well.. maybe if you had hotkeyed units, they would have a flag identifier in the center (where the camera would go if you double pressed the hotkey..)

Also, I loved having team flags on ships in Homeworld. Anyone wanna play hw2 sometime? >.>

[danando]

EXACTLY LaNCE N SOZ NOT GOT IT HAVE SEEN IT THO

[Buttons840]

If your asking for the ability to create new ship types, X has already denied such modibility due to it's fracturing of the community.  I think it would also require a major rework of the engine.

If your asking for the ability to create some kind of image as a flag for your ships (like in HW2), this also would require lots of work to the engine, and ultimately lead to no more than a little eye candy.

[Lancefighter]

but everyone loves eyecandy.. and seriously, i really do miss the flags from hw2... SoaSE had them, which was nice, but you were never zoomed in enough to see the ships anyway

[RCIX]

but everyone loves eyecandy.. and seriously, i really do miss the flags from hw2... SoaSE had them, which was nice, but you were never zoomed in enough to see the ships anyway

I never understood people's phobia of zooming in. Do they think it will cause them to lose the game or something?

[Lancefighter]

but everyone loves eyecandy.. and seriously, i really do miss the flags from hw2... SoaSE had them, which was nice, but you were never zoomed in enough to see the ships anyway

I never understood people's phobia of zooming in. Do they think it will cause them to lose the game or something?

as pretty as eyecandy is, I only need to be zoomed in far enough to distinguish the ranges of the units I'm using. Its not that I will lose if I'm zoomed in, its just when I'm zoomed out I can be more spatially aware. If something starts happening elsewhere, I cant see it happening while I'm watching how pretty the missiles are zooming from their bays.

Also, ships shooting each other with the same effects gets kinda old when you stack 100+ of the same weapon on each side.. *shrug* maybe I'm not one for pretties after a while. (though I will say, the Trinity cannon on a vgr bc is a beautiful sight to see.. especally as it rips through that other bc  

edit ...
Yeah, i am scared that i will lose if I'm busy not microing my units.

In a 1v1 of spring, if i spend any time watching how beautiful that peewee blowing up my mex is, I will have lost. Mostly because I let a peewee kill a mex however..

[rubikscube]

like they said, too messy and too much work from the engine