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[Zukeenee]

I'd agree with Sprolf on the engines issue. There are reasons that each ship has the engine effect that it does, and that shouldn't be something so easily changed.

But the lights, I think, can afford some customization. Some. It can get ridiculous, with all the choices available, and downright irritating. But also, ships have certain lights placed in specific places for good reason.

For example, the Firefly has green lights on its starboard side, and red ones on the port side, as today's ships are meant to have. This indicates right and left, and allows people to tell which way a ship is facing from a distance. Headlights are installed on all ships, and rightfully so. Flying through the perpetual blackness of space, you need at least one bright forward-facing light to illuminate anything on front of you. Docking lights are self-explanatory.

It might not be a bad idea to put allow only certain types/colors of lights on specific hardpoints on your ship, so that "safety" (and sanity) is maintained. Of course, even if this is possible, it would most certainly take those involved in the lighting mod a very long time to code in the restriction to each and every light on every ship.

But this feature is still new, and subject to change, or be removed entirely. Until then, I'll gladly take advantage of it to further customize my ships. Not to mention it could give a whole new line of work to the police forces...

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[Sprolf]

Oh, I've changed my Molly vessels to orange and green as well.
That's awesome, yes.

Other things, like said gunboat, those are the vessels I have trouble with.
Some of the bigger lights should be removed from fighters' selections.



I actually put a strobe to good use on the front of my Osiris. It actually looks very awesome.

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[Sarawr!?]

That's what I was trying to say before, military and government ships, if their lights are going to be changed, they should all be matching, faction wide. Or they should just stay as they are now.

but civilians, pirates, freelancers and the likes, lighting changes are you know, believable.

But engines, yeah.

Engines should not change.

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[Reverend Del]

Rogues can have any light they want, so long as it's purple.

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[Mere_Mortal]

Rogues need more lights to see in the Badlands.

[crimecities]

Rogues need more lights to see in the Badlands.

That's what the ship's headlight is for.

If it's a gunboat or transport, it has sensors, and doesn't need to rely on line-of-sight quite so much, as it's a spaceship and not a fighter.

[Boss]

LSF Siege Cruiser with two strobes and two red hazard lights? Yes. Looks awesome and threatening and then it blows things apart.

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Just go play the game and have fun dammit.

all in all the conclusion is that disco doesn't need antagonist factions, it doesn't need phantoms, it doesn't need nomads, it doesn't need coalition and it doesn't need many other things, no AIs, the game is hijacked by morons to confuse the game with their dickwaving generic competition games mixed up with troll-of-the-day.

[Dieter Schprokets]

The Mandalorians are using ship lights to indicate rank.

I still have not seen this in action.

In any case, once i do, Warriors won't be allowed to change lights.

Alorad's will have one colour, Consuls another and as for me, dunno.

Unless they look silly... In which case we wont use any.

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[Linkus]

Engines won't really be up for changing I'd say. A good few of them have different stats etc so it affects the ship's performance.

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[The_Libertarian_Otaku]

The engines and lights can stay intact or change all you want. I don't care either way.

It'd be pretty boss if we could put decals on our ships, though. I, for one, would love to fly around in an Orca GB with the Gurren Brigade logo on it.

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