Stealth shipsets?

SpaceBadger · #1 November 10th, 2003, 02:11 AM

I wonder if this is a problem of general concern, or something that is only annoying to me. Do you ever have trouble seeing the ships from some shipsets on the system map? I do. Some of those ships are really -tiny-, and then when they use dim and dark colors, they are darn near invisible. Many times the only way I spot enemy ships is that the little triangle on the galaxy map alerts me that there are foreign ships in the system, so I search very very carefully until I find them. This doesn't do much good, however, when there are other foreign ships insystem that I already know about - then the triangle isn't much good as a warning device.

I'm not talking about ships that actually are stealthed or cloaked - those I wouldn't see at all. I mean the ships that I am supposedly able to see, but they are difficult for my eye to detect on the system map. Those are a real pain in the neck.

SpaceBadger

Atrocities · #2 November 10th, 2003, 02:18 AM

People wanted ships that were sized.

Captain Kwok · #3 November 10th, 2003, 02:46 AM

At least in SE:V, you should be able to zoom in somewhat to see those smaller ships.

Captain Kwok · #4 November 10th, 2003, 02:50 AM

Of course, it would help now though if some of the smaller ships for certain sets were a bit more visible - it's usually those narrow ships that cause most of the problems. Despite that, I'd still opt for ships to be scaled, I'm anal about that sort of stuff...

...just ask Fyron, as I calculated potential lengths, widths, and even volumes for the planned ships in the Space Food Empires mod.

spoon · #5 November 10th, 2003, 03:13 AM

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Originally posted by SpaceBadger:
I wonder if this is a problem of general concern, or something that is only annoying to me. Do you ever have trouble seeing the ships from some shipsets on the system map?

That's one of the main reasons I don't download other players' shipsets for PBW games.

The other main reason being I'm lazy.

Roanon · #6 November 10th, 2003, 03:27 AM

I too have these "semi-cloaked" ship problem sometimes. It is not a feature of scaled shipsets, but of some specific shipsets using certain colors. If it is really annoying, it helps to replace the files of the offending shipsets with others containing more colorful and/or larger ships.