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    Add the Tombstones from the 2025 April Fool's Update as a Permanent Feature

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    • DoompantsD Offline
      Doompants
      last edited by

      FWIW, we actually found these tombstones break the PhantomX mod's win conditions. When an ACU pops the rest of their forces don't disappear.

      Didn't report it because we assumed they were reverting after this week. 🙂

      Otherwise I don't have a horse in this race, but maybe another reason to make it optional.

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      • DeribusD Offline
        Deribus Moderator
        last edited by

        Made some quick mockups of faction tombstones. UEF I'm pretty happy with, Aeon might need a few more features, Cybran I think I need to scrap and start over 😂
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        No ideas for sera yet but it'd probably some weird floaty stuff.

        Tomorrow I'll try to test the ACU wrecks and get some screenshots of those.

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        • K Offline
          Kilatamoro
          last edited by

          If gets into main game, bye, immersion.

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          • waffelzNoobW Offline
            waffelzNoob
            last edited by

            i also think they're a little too "silly" to keep

            frick snoops!

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            • C Offline
              Caliber
              last edited by Caliber

              @Deribus

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              just some inspiration.

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              • JipJ Offline
                Jip @Caliber
                last edited by

                @Caliber said in Add the Tombstones from the 2025 April Fool's Update as a Permanent Feature:

                Its just a UI feature so people can choose if they want them or not in an in game setting

                This is not a UI feature.

                A work of art is never finished, merely abandoned

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                • DeribusD Offline
                  Deribus Moderator @waffelzNoob
                  last edited by

                  @waffelzNoob said in Add the Tombstones from the 2025 April Fool's Update as a Permanent Feature:

                  i also think they're a little too "silly" to keep

                  To BlackYps point, can you elaborate on what you mean by "they're"?

                  The current tombstones, my designs, the entire concept? Would you prefer the wrecks avenue?

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                  • waffelzNoobW Offline
                    waffelzNoob
                    last edited by waffelzNoob

                    tombstones in general.
                    and wrecks would be cool, but confusing, because you can't reclaim them

                    honestly reclaimable ACU wrecks doesn't sound so bad because I strongly dislike when players are able to blow up your army with their ACU and their team loses nothing of value. However currently ACUs "cost" a ton of resources so I imagine a wreck would give way too much also

                    frick snoops!

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                    • N Offline
                      Nomander Balance Team @waffelzNoob
                      last edited by

                      @waffelzNoob said in Add the Tombstones from the 2025 April Fool's Update as a Permanent Feature:

                      However currently ACUs "cost" a ton of resources so I imagine a wreck would give way too much also

                      This is easily adjustable in wreckage parameters. Also ACUs only cost 2000 mass right now, so you could just add wrecks without changing anything.

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                      • waffelzNoobW Offline
                        waffelzNoob
                        last edited by

                        huge dub

                        frick snoops!

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                        • N Offline
                          Nuggets FAF Association Board
                          last edited by Nuggets

                          The best part of the feature was the "funny" text of the tombstone. So idc what the wreck or tombstone looks like.
                          Would be sad if this just goes

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                          • N Offline
                            Nomander Balance Team
                            last edited by

                            What if they were death markers? UI modders can mod the text and casters/players can use it to see who died and how, with restrictions as needed for players (allies only at minimum). They would be created in a similar fashion to Notify messages.
                            This would have no sim changes like wrecks or other objects, thus keeping the immersion somewhat intact (UI is immersion-breaking in general, but this is less so than objects in the world).

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                            • N Offline
                              Nuggets FAF Association Board
                              last edited by

                              I'd probably not have the feature like that. Would prefer a wreck / tombstone over just a message

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                              • DeribusD Offline
                                Deribus Moderator @Deribus
                                last edited by

                                Thought I'd pick this up again
                                UEF is the same, just added some placeholder textures d17b0658-31f5-49a7-af20-abb53de29d03-image.png
                                Aeon added a little plinth c19dc8a9-25bd-4020-a425-d5cd8c9b1f2c-image.png
                                Cybran V2. The dark-red inner area is intended to be a red circuit board type material but that is a lot of work to create such a texture for an idea I'm not committed to yet. 466db2a8-355c-41d0-accb-5e761080ca02-image.png

                                Sera I'm still figuring out designs for.

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                                • N Offline
                                  Nuggets FAF Association Board
                                  last edited by

                                  Sera would probably have something that hovers

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                                  • CrofisC Offline
                                    Crofis
                                    last edited by

                                    It's clear who's your favorite lol

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