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AxleMC131

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Your Scarab Is Loading
« on: March 17, 2018, 02:02:21 AM »



- That is all -

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Re: Your Scarab Is Loading
« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2018, 02:03:53 AM »

*petitions to make this the new loading icon*
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Re: Your Scarab Is Loading
« Reply #2 on: March 17, 2018, 03:54:52 AM »

*petition sighned 1st time*
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Re: Your Scarab Is Loading
« Reply #3 on: March 17, 2018, 07:02:35 AM »

*petitions to make this the new loading icon*
Then I'd rather have a Paragon silhouette deploying its shield from 0 to 360deg:
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Re: Your Scarab Is Loading
« Reply #4 on: March 17, 2018, 07:10:26 AM »

*petitions to make this the new loading icon*
Then I'd rather have a Paragon sillouette deploying its shield from 0 to 360deg
Or an Onslaught burn driving across the screen
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Re: Your Scarab Is Loading
« Reply #5 on: March 17, 2018, 08:28:22 AM »

The classic bar we have is simple and no-nonsense.
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Re: Your Scarab Is Loading
« Reply #6 on: March 17, 2018, 08:29:56 AM »

... I guess it's hard to guess when people are jesting in text...
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Re: Your Scarab Is Loading
« Reply #7 on: March 17, 2018, 08:53:09 AM »

Might still be handy to have an animated icon during the loading screen so that you can see if the game's locked up or anything like that.
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Re: Your Scarab Is Loading
« Reply #8 on: March 18, 2018, 01:24:56 PM »

That loading Scarab got me mesmerized for a while until I felt like that it's basically loading the very literal sense of time itself so unless the forum crashes and/or servers shutdown or something along those lines that inevitably disrupt it. This has the potential of loading well past the estimated "death of the universe". Just goes to show how little time cares about its own length. :D

The more I look at it the more I feel like it's trying to tell me something.. I wonder if the Scarab or just its shield generator is upside down and thus the clockwise movement of the 180 degree omni-shield is moving counter-clockwise which would kinda explain/half-explain why the high-tech shield's color is in the spectrum of blueshift instead of in the spectrum of redshift the low-tech shields are. Both high-tech and low-tech vessels and their shields might be onto something here.

Huh.. wait a moment. Who's idea was it to stick a Space Shuttle's front from ancient 20th century of humanity as a bridge for the latest high-tech Tri-Tachyon ship!?? I-I-I-Is there an actual Space Shuttle from that ancient era in that ship as an escape shuttle, what were they thinking???!! O_O

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Re: Your Scarab Is Loading
« Reply #9 on: March 19, 2018, 09:57:56 AM »

You know...

I support a new loading icon in this style.
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Re: Your Scarab Is Loading
« Reply #10 on: March 19, 2018, 10:24:48 AM »

How about a modded paragon with omni 360 shields that spins around and the arc increases as the loading bar. At 360 coverages the game is loaded.
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Re: Your Scarab Is Loading
« Reply #11 on: March 19, 2018, 10:32:28 AM »

How about a pair of Hounds fighting with ACGs, 0.6 style?
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Re: Your Scarab Is Loading
« Reply #12 on: March 19, 2018, 10:46:41 AM »

...I keep expecting the loading bar to show progress in the form of weapons installations on that Scarab, but it never happens.
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Re: Your Scarab Is Loading
« Reply #13 on: April 03, 2018, 09:34:58 AM »

Why not have all of the above?

Have the normal loading bar, and above it also display a ship animation, chosen at random (Paragon deploying shields, Scarab spinning shields around, Onslaught burn-driving etc.).
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Re: Your Scarab Is Loading
« Reply #14 on: April 03, 2018, 09:32:54 PM »

I second this idea.

All of them, randomly chosen. Yes please.