What about being able to modify the appearance of the ships in the ship yard, parts of the coating (red instead of green or something like that) or the figurehead... Of course, this should not be for free (who would pay the yard's workers then???).
Imagine this as follows:
Several different models for different figureheads for each ship type (lion, virgin, eagle or whatever someone can think up), and the game uses the one the player selected in the ship yard.
For the coating two ideas:
The easy one would be just to offer different textures for the same ship type.
The heavy (probably really heavy) one: define for the parts of the ship that can be modifyed one or more colors that are variable - the game engine would then have to replace the variable colors with the selected ones (or random colors for enemy ships - perhaps even a set of colors for each nation).
This is nothing more than idea of mine, but perhaps some of you modder guys (you did a great work so far, by the way) like it, too, and give it a try?
Ok, I'll seize the opportunity for another idea: An import tool, with which different sail emblems can be integrated easily. So any gamer could use his own emblems without having to create a real mod.
Imagine this as follows:
Several different models for different figureheads for each ship type (lion, virgin, eagle or whatever someone can think up), and the game uses the one the player selected in the ship yard.
For the coating two ideas:
The easy one would be just to offer different textures for the same ship type.
The heavy (probably really heavy) one: define for the parts of the ship that can be modifyed one or more colors that are variable - the game engine would then have to replace the variable colors with the selected ones (or random colors for enemy ships - perhaps even a set of colors for each nation).
This is nothing more than idea of mine, but perhaps some of you modder guys (you did a great work so far, by the way) like it, too, and give it a try?
Ok, I'll seize the opportunity for another idea: An import tool, with which different sail emblems can be integrated easily. So any gamer could use his own emblems without having to create a real mod.
