1) Depends on the planet\environment, on the volcanic planet vehicles would get darker\in ashes. on "red" sand planets - red dirt, etc. sand, snow\dirty snow, water leaking down from the vehicle. 1.2 it could have some "particle effect" added to vehicles\player, dirt\water drooling . 1.3 IF there is actually a wind, it would also make something dirty\wet or clean (depends on the side of wind). 2) It could be a temporary effect, as soon as the mission is over vehicles\player would be clean. 2.2 or it could be NOT very lasting at all, if you come out of the dirt\water you\vehicle looks wet for 5-10 seconds. 3) the longer on the mission without any "water wash", more dirty you would get.
Going to the carwash! It would make for a bit more realistic look, returning to your encampment onto to see it half covered in dirt and sand, from a violent sandstorm! Should this effect the vehicles though? maybe having them run slower, breaking more often if dirty/sanded/wet?
omg Dopefish "Quake 2,3 nostalgia kicks in" yeh man well it all depends on how complex they want to make the game, of course its a good idea, if something will break at all this would add more depth to the game (if not too much).
Yeah, Dopefish! And Wacky Wheels, Commander Keen, and so on... they put that fish in many many games. I would love to see, on Mars-like planets, that sandstorms would shift sandmasses around, unless you terraformed it, but just having a visual effect of making stuff "dirty" could also look pretty nice, not only if you are aiming for realism, but I think the overall visual impression, that such things happen, would be a nice addition to the game.
"It was a long run but tottaly worth it, we are returning to base with some goodies on our dirty, in red dust, 6-wheeled APC with 3 people crew to our encampment\Base "Me Dig, Me Gold" on "Red Planet B-307". It was severely damaged in last sand storm, but nothing what good engie Rekalty cant fix, best engie in this sector, if you ask me. Heavy , noisy automatic gates are lifted and we roll in to hangar bay, where we are already greeted by the crew." ok thats it. pre ordering now damnit "trows money to the screen" ! even if not that complex, Im sure it will be good
yeh and its inbuilt in every vehicle. "Thread gets closed & deleted hardcore" but that could be an expensive Item yeh
if I dont find Item\vehicle breaking\repair threads, Im gona post them ! (oh snap) or someone should. and !expensive! Auto-repair \ Auto-cleaning devices\items should get a thread also.. PS. how about vehicle having a rechargeable shield.. or just repair over time ?.. or someone\Engie just takes a Wrench and works on it ? oh man is there an end to ideas.
I dont recall seeing a post about maintenance on mechanical devices, I belive that most may find it a bit boring to having to keep fixing their high-tech futuristic stuff just to keep it working. You could always hire a gang of penguin mechanics that would keep your town/devices/vehicles in working condition.
"a gang of penguin mechanics" would be awesome tbh how about vehicle regenerating HP ? but it can be destroyed, (it would open possibility for PvP \ CTF games with vehicles) but it could be also too much, and in the game where its mostly about your character and not vehicles.. ..im just thinking.
Its not impossible to think that tech in the future could be self-repairing, just see what they are doing with Nano-tech these days. So, if your vehicle gets damaged it would just need an amount of nanites, that would spread out and fill in the damaged sections of the vehicle. This may be too much micro-managing though Im not even sure if they plan on implementing the possibility to "damage" your devices and vehicles.
I like the dust idea, but items, vehicles and the characters getting dirty would be hard, since they're working with pixels.
