[UI] Drone design ...Brilliant idea!

Well,
Seeing as Dark Orbit has implemented very colourful drone cosmetics, I think it's time to be able to easily put them on drones so that the user can see exactly where they put them on the back page. For the reason, the current way is ridiculous.

How about on the back pack an outline of the ship and each formation then you just decorate the drone designs onto the ship instead of guessing and checking the front page hangar?

I do believe dark orbit develops things without thinking sometimes.

Reasons:

It consumes time decorating ship with cosmetics.

It's fiddly <trial and error>

It would make proper use of the things they develop and fit into what the players actually could do with

It is worth winning them if the players could easily attach them

I like the idea <it should have been bought out <BEFORE> the Drone Designs

 

I'm not sure if its just me, i think that there is a trick to know which drones is on that position, since each drone is positioned from left and then to the right, 1st drone you see on your backpage should be positioned on your right side of your ship, then 2nd is to the right, then 3rd is left, 4th is right, and the last or the bottom list of your drones are always placed on the front end of your ship on any drone formation.

If you get what i mean, you would get the trick on cosmetically decorating your drone with ease.

and btw, isn't drone designs should come as a set and not as individual designs? but it does look cool to see different drone designs on any drone formation you use, i do hope they add in a system where you can just place a drone design on a formation and it will save on your ship, that way you wouldn't have to guess at all which drone is placed on which.

but remember: first row of drones you see on your backpage are always placed on the back end of your ship on any drone formation, and the last row of drones are always at the front end.

 

Thanks for the information and I am grateful that you understand what I'm trying to implement here.

I will read what you wrote again until I get a clear picture. Thing is it shouldn't be a trick seeing as between developers and players there seems to be a HUGE cosmetic Drone market therefore it is an important issue and update that needs fixing. And as you already mentioned it would be nice if we could all do it with ease, and I also, forgot about discussing the DRONE SETS...Equally, yes it is silly winning one per event...That is quite annoying...

 

I was thinking of a separate page on the hangar after selecting "manage" the tabs for the ship, drones and pet would appear, instead of having to equip all drone cosmetic designs simply into the drone, there should be atleast another page for "drone formations" so that you can equip all drone cosmetics there base on the 3d or 2d model of the formation, like you want a hailstorm drone design in the middle of the drill formation, if you got that drone present (which is you need a 10th drone to have a drone present as the tip) selecting the "drill formation" on all available formations you got will highlight if you can equip a cosmetic drone design on that position of the drone, but if you don't have enough drones to accommodate that then it will not highlight it.

Similar to moth and heart formation, if you lack drones, you can't simply equip drone cosmetics or even atleast access the "drone formation" page on that tab and a warning would say "you need atleast 6 drones to use drone formation"

there should also be other drone formations that has complex motions, like a drone formation that slowly moves drones to the left from the middle, then outright positions them to the right with a much faster animation, in this way things would be more interesting.

But i don't think drone formations would be a cosmetic thing these days now that the animation of each drone formation indicates the type of drone formation they are using, it would hinder any combative capabilities at hinting them which drone formation they should use if any aesthetic type of drone formation is overlayed on a drone formation that gives bonus or benefits to the ship's abilities like laser damage, shield etc.

The game has so many potential in complexity, its just that it requires planning and if it will be successful, not to mention if it will increase their profit gain in some way since money is always important to keep the game running (but too important for BP if you ask me)

A flash game like this will die out in a matter of 2 years if some innovative and creative game developer would come up and took inspiration over Dark Orbit as this game has so much potential if transitioned to Unity atleast, or Real Engine, but that would be unthoughtful for some players who are using a toaster to play this game since its not performance intensive as it is since its a flash game.