Idea for new particle effect

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 New Particle Effect: Escape Pods

I just thought it would be nice to see a few escape pods appear right in the middle of an explosion when ships and structures (and of course starbases) are being destroyed. It would make watching battles even more rewarding.

I think it would be as simple as adding a particle effect, maybe similar to the ones you see when a ship uses the colonize ability. Instead, you would see tiny escape pods launching at the moment a ship or structure is destroyed. These pods will propell themselves towards the planet / asteroid of the gravity well that it is currrently in.

I don't think it would fry your system when implemented, so it might be nice to see something like this in Rebellion.

What do you guys think?

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

That actually sounds like a nice idea! :thumbsup:

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

That actually sounds like a nice idea! :thumbsup:

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

It's easy to make a particle effect for; hard to implement.

It would require an ability on every single ship that triggers on death...

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting KrdaxDrkrun, reply 3
It's easy to make a particle effect for; hard to implement.

It would require an ability on every single ship that triggers on death...
Hmmm I didn't know it would require an actual ability for it to work. I hoped it would be similar to how an explosion particle effect is triggered.

Anyway, thanks a lot for telling me. It seems to be more work than I figured it would be.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Well...

You could attach it to the explosionDef...

but it wouldn't be able to do very much, it would just have a bunch of escape pods flying out in random directions...

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

That will be a cool effect, maybe limited to the Capital ships...?

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

Yea, even if the pods don't fly towards the center of the gravity well, it would still be cool to see some pods propelling away from destroyed ships.

Quoting G_Bison, reply 6
That will be a cool effect, maybe limited to the Capital ships...?
Maybe limiting it to Capital ships would increase the likelyhood of actually seeing them in Rebellion.

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

What if kittens flew out of every exploding ship?  Now that would be cool!

Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top

Kittens are fairly easy to do...

It just requires a kitten texture.

Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top

What if space kittehs flew out of all the exploding ships and structures? That would instantly make Rebellion Game Of The Year.

They should look like this one:

Reply #11 from Sins Forums Top

If this were possiable, and i'm not ssying it is. Pehaps the pods cound count as a new ship, like the TEC missle pods or Vasari seige platforms. but absolutly defencless (maybe mod sheild and hull)

 

How would you feel to an acheivment/boosts regarding collecting/destroying them.

If they are yours the capital ship would get a health boost if damaged and a portion of the destroyed capitals exp

If your enemy's just the exp plus an acheivment if you collect say 20 per match or something?

Reply #12 from Sins Forums Top

Really good idea.

Preferably, we'd see them during that short period of time when the ship is just about to explode and is "listing" to one side. That'd be a nice time for an "abandon ship" moment.

Reply #13 from Sins Forums Top

you make it part of the explosion particle itself

 

Reply #14 from Sins Forums Top

I say make "exploding kitten escape pods" an option under effects...could be like Grunt Birthday party...