Re: Tip: Change system backgrounds to solid black for better visibility
 

[quote]Originally posted by Intimidator:

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Agreed Fyron, but in a large game (100 planets up) I can imagine that some one in a hurry will overlook the vessel little vessel in the corner (I do this often myself)

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Not really because unless the system has other alien ships in it will show an alien presence on the galaxy map in that system http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Re: Tip: Change system backgrounds to solid black for better visibility
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">***Quietly turns into the corner and pukes***

Re: Tip: Change system backgrounds to solid black for better visibility
 

how about this,.. replace the 'mini' pics of the ships with different sized asteroid cluster bitmaps. When the enemy enters a system, they will just think it has a bunch of asteroid fields. (hehehe, boy will they get a surprise when they try to mine them. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif )

It might even take them a few turns before they realise that some of the asteroid fields are moving.

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Re: Tip: Change system backgrounds to solid black for better visibility
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">It's a bit though in a 20 player game to sneak into 19 houses over the world to change the bitmaps...

Re: Tip: Change system backgrounds to solid black for better visibility
 

And if you do pull it off you just got to hope they dont play said race in a SP game, or they might fiqure out wot has happened http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

Re: Tip: Change system backgrounds to solid black for better visibility
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Nice one, but I think it will be noticed when downloading your shipset http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif
Better is to only change ONE design not very often used, like cruiser design and make it all black, and then only use this cruiser design for VERY special occasions.
I would never do this off course, because it is cheating in my opinion.