Custom Colors for Ships/Beams Please

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I have really been wanting a custom color option for ships which grants full hull color options.
Also if it is possible to alter beams and effects for a theme or personal preference?

Maybe some custom color accent lights on ships a captain can add?

Just a few requests.

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I remember in beta there was a bug which allowed colour changes.(beems and effects)
However it was removed due to CBS concerns if i remember corectly.
Also it caused outrage amoung the general comunity so i do not expect to see this happen :D
Personally i liked it :D

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I remember in beta there was a bug which allowed colour changes.(beems and effects)
However it was removed due to CBS concerns if i remember corectly.
Also it caused outrage amoung the general comunity so i do not expect to see this happen :D
Personally i liked it :D

Awwwww, maybe as an option you can Toggle?
Maybe have it on to see custom colors and with it off it is all classic themes?

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Yeah, sorry to disappoint, but captainjkirk is right. The bug was squashed by CBS. It would certainly be cool, but not gonna happen. Maybe they would allow some sort of client side toggle? So that you can change how it looks for yourself, but everyone else sees default colors. Probably not gonna happen though.

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I think this feature would only further the lack of immersion in the game. Phasers are supposed to be orange and red, end of story.

Edit: And if you allowed this, how would players in PVP know what weapon their enemy is firing and prepare an adequate response without trying to read combat logs while five ships are firing on you at will?

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Yeah too many PvP players raged about it during beta, they didn't know which weapon type to counter.

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I have really been wanting a custom color option for ships which grants full hull color options.

No thank you. Personally, I do not want to see pink starships flying about the galaxy.

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Phasers are supposed to be orange and red, end of story.

Except of course when they were Blue.. or Green. ;) :D
http://www.trekannoyances.com/tos_enterprise_phasers/index.html

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No thank you. Personally, I do not want to see pink starships flying about the galaxy.

Though I am against it, ill bet customer hull colors come eventually.

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eh, my 2 cents are:

Allow some energy weapons to have different color options, provided they stay within canon.

For instance phasers. Red and blue as TOS colors. Red/orange for TNG and on. And Yellow as Cardasian Phasers are that color. I know there were a couple of TOS episodes that had green and purple, but I really think that was a technical/budget issue of the time.

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Though I am against it, ill bet customer hull colors come eventually.

I highly doubt that CBS is going to permit the Enterprise to be portrayed as the good ship pink lollipop.

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Custom hull/ship colors beyond what we have is a bad idea. I think what we have is sufficient. I would like to select beam colors. At least then you can opt for canon beam colors even though you're using disruptors, for example. Simple solution, it would be disabled in pvp.

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I highly doubt that CBS is going to permit the Enterprise to be portrayed as the good ship pink lollipop.

I've highly doubted they'd do stuff before and they have.

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Yeah too many PvP players raged about it during beta, they didn't know which weapon type to counter.

Wich were obviously the same winers that are raged now about carriers, pet spam, the fact that you can disable the aegis/borg set visuals. The same kind of people who rages at Lotr when it was announced that the option would come up to wear clothes clothes OVER the amor.

i do not need to know every time exactly how the oponnent is equipt. I dont see where this is unfair as long as I can hide MY equip as good if I want too.

The problem for me is basicly the opposite: I dont want to use phasers because I like the bonusses of the other weapons better.... but after all, a souvereign with green or blue beems just doesnt look right. Or anything NOT green on a BoP; I'd vole to use Antiproton there instead of Disruptors.
Well the Antiprotons work for me at the Defaint and WOULD work on the Souverign, but on my Eng I cant efford the skill point costs.

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Guys as page 1 stated -- This bug was squashed due to CBS.

If they squash what they call a bug it isn't going to come back in the c-store ya know :p

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With all the stuff that might be coming in the future, I no longer see this as unlikely.

In fact, in just a few months I expect to see this.

Now, while I understand that CBS squashed it originally, there was no C-Store then. So I think its definitely possible.

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Will neeeever friggin' happen. CBS will never say Yes. What happened in Beta was Cryptic put in something (Custom Beam Colors) without CBS's approval and they said "WHOOOOAAAA. That sh*t needs to go." Sorry guys, hate to be the downer, but it's true.

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With all the stuff that might be coming in the future, I no longer see this as unlikely.

In fact, in just a few months I expect to see this.

Now, while I understand that CBS squashed it originally, there was no C-Store then. So I think its definitely possible.
Uh... there has been a c-store since beta dude. It just wasn't used till after launch o_O

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Uh... there has been a c-store since beta dude. It just wasn't used till after launch o_O

The C-Store then and the C-Store now are two very different things. So is the game.

So is Cryptic, so a lot has changed.

I wouldn't be all shocked if it came, I really don't want it, but I'm not gonna be surprised.

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You can change basic hull colors and paint jobs on your ships through the starship customization NPCs on earth spacedock, ds9, and I believe starbase 39.

Use the "orion" paint pattern if you want the color to look more like a solid hull color change rather than just stripes/patterns painted on.


As for weapon effects, you currently have the following colors available:

Beam/Cannon weapons:
Orange (phasers)
Blue (TOS Phasers, Tetryon weapons)
Green (Disruptors)
Purple (Polaron weapons)
Teal (Plasma weapons)
Red (Antiproton weapons)

Torpedoes:
Red (Photon torpedoes)
Blue (Quantum torpedoes)
Green (Plasma torpedoes)
Yellow (Transphasic torpedoes)
Mixed Color (Chroniton torpedoes) - appear to have blue/yellow/white mixed in the effect
White (Tricobalt torpedoes)


Additionally, you can give your ship blue lights/highlights with the Aegis shields (Klingon ships get red lights/highlights with aegis), green hull effects with the borg shields, or reflective green/teal hull and lights with the reman prototype shields.

Aegis engines will give federation ships a blue ring-style impulse trail, while they will give klingon ships a red ring-style impulse trail. The aegis deflector dish gives a blue/red light cone extending from your deflector based on faction.