26 replies to this topic

[Crimsonwolf911]

This is something I keep hoping to see turn up in the MMO games I play. I would love to have the ability to design my own emblems and decals myself, through an integrated design system with an array of shapes, numbers, letters, and pre-made designs players could use to make their own decals for their mechs, and make their mark on the world of mechwarrior online.

Stuff like this is the sort of thing that I, personally, would pay for the ability to do in game, the guys behind warhammer 40k eternal crusade put it in a really good phrase, they call it

"pay to look cool"

I would! Would you?

Edited by Crimsonwolf911, 23 December 2015 - 02:23 PM.

[Generic Internetter]

Honestly, if you want to keep the visuals in the style of the MechWarrior theme, any uploaded images would need to go through a PGI approval process before they become available. Without this, it's meme & porn hell.

If PGI moderate it, then yeah sounds good.

[Hydrothermia]

Generic Internetter, on 29 January 2016 - 07:47 PM, said:

Honestly, if you want to keep the visuals in the style of the MechWarrior theme, any uploaded images would need to go through a PGI approval process before they become available. Without this, it's meme & porn hell.

If PGI moderate it, then yeah sounds good.

That will be the biggest issue. Are far as being able to make custom decals PGI could take a page from APB:Reloaded's in-game designer.

[GIBBU]

Then people would put falic objects on their mechs like in call of duty

[Bad Pun]

I would certainly pay for the privilege. It would take a lot of effort to moderate it though, meaning the cost of the emblems would be quite high.

Still, putting My Little Pony all over my Dire Wolf would be worth it!

[NoiseCrypt]

I need this on the re-seens

[Vahgus]

First off...my little pony???? Oh well. I think this would be a great idea if PGI provided to tools for it. If there was a unit decal and personal decal design tool for them then PGI could implement their conditions of acceptability through that. That way the tool does some of the moderation for them and they could include image uploading to the tool with a submit button at the bottom.

That's the point where a test server or the PTS would come in handy to actually test the new decals for bugs. Yes I'm a firm believer that providing your players with dev tools is a good idea as long as you have a way of testing the new content in a controlled environment and can give reasons for rejection.

Oh yeah PGI should always have to give a real reason for rejecting player content beyond "we didn't like it" if they implement such tools.

[Firestorm1976]

I would love to get my friends playing and I have a group nan. Just need the appropriate decal...

[Vellron2005]

It's never gonna happen, because it's something that PGI can't control, or would take too much effort to control and moderate.. cose' yes, people will put not only phallic symbolism, but also swastikas, religious, and commercial brand-name decals on their mechs..

And I'll be the first one to say, NO to a swastika-embazoned Coca cola Atlas..

Edited by Vellron2005, 29 November 2016 - 06:25 AM.

[Doctor Dinosaur]

With a pretty hefty price on it I could see it happening. Just make it costly enough so that some PGI member cab check the inbox once a week, sort out the penises and approve every acceptable decal.
Make some defined format mandatory so it can be imported directly into the game and release the new decals with the next patch.
Can't be so hard, can it?

Ban every unappropriate decal submitter (for a limited time perhaps) to minimize overhead, take 20$+ for every successful submission.

The problem is: If you submit you very special decal, EVERYONE will be able to use it (for money ofc.). Do you want that?

[Shifty McSwift]

No.

And not just because of wieners, but because plenty of people would try to create decals that create visual issues/artifacts that either create an advantage, or cause an enemy to be disadvantages through weird decal shenanigans, or just in general make things more difficult with everyone.

And at the pace these guys work retroactively, if some bad decals slipped through they would be in game for months before being redacted.

Bad idea, just let them make the decal, we can request, that system works fine, I personally don't want other peoples idea of decal in my face all game.

[Karl Carver]

Id like to see a playername decal, thats easy enough.

Maybe ranks as well so i could put as an example Maj Carver on my mech to identify myself

[Tana Sebrle]

I would pay for MC to be able to use my own custom decals as long as we could make our own and upload them. Granted, we would have to follow specific guide lines to make sure it's appropriate BUT I would definitely pay for it. I am not a fan of having premade shapes and designs given to us to choose from. At some point you're going to come across another unit that has the exact same design. It's YOUR unit. You want it to be special to YOU not everyone else who likes it. That's the whole point of making your own unit, to make your mark on the galaxy. There are so many online programs out there that people can use these days to make gifs, jpgs, pngs, etc that I don't see why this option hasn't already been implimented.

[Sleepyboy14]

I would pay good MCs if they include an pinup girl decal or an Alex Jones decal.

[Red 6 Delta]

I would defiantly be going to hell with the decals I would slap on my mechs lol.

Edited by SakiTakeda69, 15 February 2018 - 08:02 PM.

[Agent of Change]

So I voted NO. But this is a feature i would love, let me explain.

While some of us would pursue this in good faith the roadblocks make it unfeasible and not something I'd prefer PGI spent time on over more pressing issues. The issues I see are as follow:

• All images would have to be moderated as others have said... that's a lot of effort
  
• Any approved image would have to be injected into the build and downloaded by every other player in order to be seen... the would further increase teh size of the game files and patch sizes.
  
• There would have to be a gate of some kind to submitting in order to reduce stupid submissions, either MC or unit size or something... but that inevitably would lead to more forum drama

[Mechwarrior1441491]

Been asking this for along time.

There are no roadblocks if they have to be approved by PGI. You pay for your submission. If it doesn`t fit the guidelines, you get no decal approved and lose your money MC needed for submission. I believe warframe does that for your guild design. If it breaches copy right or isn`t the right dimensions, your submission is void. It isn`t cheap either. I believe it used to be like 50 bucks. Maybe a bit less.

Edited by Mechwarrior1441491, 25 June 2018 - 03:16 PM.

[catsonmeth]

How about the option of saving a set of decals as one? That's what I want. It's a pain to make the same emblem over and over again if I wanna rep the colors on multiple mechs, and that way we don't get custom weiners or shaq's face all over the place.

[Agent of Change]

catsonmeth, on 26 June 2018 - 11:27 AM, said:

How about the option of saving a set of decals as one? That's what I want. It's a pain to make the same emblem over and over again if I wanna rep the colors on multiple mechs, and that way we don't get custom weiners or shaq's face all over the place.

This is exactly the sort of thing that could be done. for the sake of rendering the collection would probably need to take up the same amount of "slots" as teh component decal use.

[KursedVixen]

Agent of Change, on 25 June 2018 - 11:14 AM, said:

So I voted NO. But this is a feature i would love, let me explain.

While some of us would pursue this in good faith the roadblocks make it unfeasible and not something I'd prefer PGI spent time on over more pressing issues. The issues I see are as follow:

• All images would have to be moderated as others have said... that's a lot of effort
  
• Any approved image would have to be injected into the build and downloaded by every other player in order to be seen... the would further increase teh size of the game files and patch sizes.
  
• There would have to be a gate of some kind to submitting in order to reduce stupid submissions, either MC or unit size or something... but that inevitably would lead to more forum drama

along with the potential slip throughs, more drama would arise as PGi would obviously reject valid ideas....