What? Our UI? Pah, even if that were true, they wouldn't have to model it manually. Just set the texture to be a special shader and make that shader adjustable by the game's engine. It's so easy, I could do it! Normally I'd just say make it a plain white texture and let the engine color that, but knowing STO the engine probably can't do that. Or tie its own shoelaces. It's not like someone would have to model 256 different UI's just to change the color. I don't know where you would get the idea. At the very most they would just have to create 256 textures, which would be easy to do with some basic automation, take fifteen minutes to set it up, and 5 minutes to complete the texturing of all 256 textures, depending on resolution.

You could do it, I could probably do it.
It's not something I "came up" with.
It's a Dev statement from one of the gazillion threads about this topic.
And yes I'm trying to track that one down right now but it's always fun searching 500+ statements from each single Dev for the last two years.

There:

http://forums.startrekonline.com/sho...6&postcount=10

happy now?

That's a BS excuse. If it's baked into the textures, copy the current texture, but white, slap that into photoshop, and pop a color filter on it. Instant color change. Or better yet, make it white, then let the game engine overlay a color filter itself. That way players can choose whatever they want. At the very least, a nice little dark-grey option as a compromise would be grand. That way you don't get any colors, you just get grey. One skin to make, that's all.

That would have required foresight on Cryptic's part.
The people who consider sitting in a chair "complicated stuff".
Anyway if you have a problem with this explanation take it up with FallingSky not with me for quoting him.

Sorry, sorry, I just hate lazy programming.

I know what you mean.

In an ideal world they would have set the thing up the same way the costumes work,
perferably with the same editor we get to use at the tailor.
The tech exists that's the maddening thing.

We currently have basically a frame around the buttons, the buttons themselves and
of course black and white letters and pictograms on the buttons.
It would certainly be nice if we were allowed to customize those four things
(even if the options were somewhat limited depending on the faction)
to something we'd find less irritating than what some people have described in here.

Thank you. That is the exact reason why people never listen to me, why do something that makes sense???

Good ole' B.O.F., loved that game, except for the fact that the Constellation and Defiant classes were extremely overpowered.

Well, nowadays there's the "Ultimate Editor" for that.
Not to mention a mod that increases the resolution to 1024, dozens of new models, a mod that replaces the Ferengi with the Dominion (including a replacement for the infamous rainbow interface).

And the community is working on a whole new graphics engine so BotF will soon look like this:

http://www.armadafleetcommand.com/bo..._223457375.png

http://www.armadafleetcommand.com/bo..._223715688.png

I still play from time to time with a buddy.
One thing they still haven't figured out after all these years is how to get rid of those "Sync Errors"...and what I've not figured out is how a turnbased game can have a sync error in the firs place.