Right now we have the dark smuggler chassis that provides us with a default disguise. What i would like to suggest is that players be able to submit a ship chassis for review, and if it is included as a potential option, the player that submitted it get a reward. I was thinking it could cost around 15 gp to change your ship chassis. The reward for submitting a chassis that was made into a potential option would be 15 gp, essentially allowing them to change for free.

The game that did this was a french game called Howrse. It is a horse breeding game that i took up because my sister was really into it and wanted me to buy some of her horses. The submitted player 'horses' were very good in some cases, and were listed as potential avatar changes for horses bred that a premium 'artifact' (yes, they were pretty much mythological artifacts) had been used on called the golden apple.

alot of players are very artistic in this community. i like to count myself as one of them. I am now taking some classes regarding 3d modeling, and i would like to have the option to make space ships and submit them, and hopefully, have my ship look like them. And of course, if no options are submitted, or no GOOD options are submitted, then there will be fewer options to choose from, so its not only beneficial for players to participate in these 'contests', but necessary. To enter, you would submit a request to either dan from the game, or to an 'official contest email' containing a PNG of the ship that was modeled and touched up.

To save even more time on the dev's part, All the submitted options can be posted in an official thread (much like the coming soon thread) and each month the top 5 choices are included into the game at the dev's discretion. Players can resubmit previous avatars up to 3 times (so they would be available to be voted on for 4 months total) to attempt to win. This would not only cut down on the time the dev's would have to review the avatars and choose what they 'think' players want, but it would also be very minimal work to just post a png in a thread and have voting options of 'which do you like best?'.


EDIT: in order to try to get players to spend more gp, instead of paying for your ship to change, you buy the chassis, and have all of your available purchased chassises on a dropdown menu that you can change at any time. This would also allow players to be able to have 'limited edition' ship chassises if there was only a max of 20 or so chassises at any given time, then every 5th month the first 5 would be dropped, making room for a new 5. Or, however many would put it past 20. It would also allow for 'retro' events where old ship chassis is made available for limited time to newer players.

just apply for a job at dan's office , why dontcha ? lolz

+1 i like the idea, this idea has also been in another game, not sure if any of u have played it or not but it's in Miscrits as well, there's a comp where u draw up a miscrit, give all 4 evo's and info on the miscrit, and the winner get's to have it put in the game and get the 1st one put in for free. But enough of that it's too childish for me know, so yeah i like the idea.

hahaha, thisll allow dan to focus more on new mission chains and coding and stuff... without forcing him to come up with custom ship avatars aswell. as i've said before, because the dark smuggler mission chain is available to everyone, at some point everyone will look the same on the bt. and thats not cool. this would not only fix that problem, but also give us a way to 'earn' gp if we cant afford it.

agreed ! dan could have more time to finish all the tweaks that are piling up

and incorporate the recently tagged coding ideas that have come up. i'm glad to see that our ideas are being observed... before it was just submit and hope it didnt get lost in the clutter... now we have confirmation it was received!