custom decals added to vehicles

[Fakkamajakka]

I think it would be pretty cool to be able to create your own vehicle graphics, like the old WWII bombers and fighters had on their fuselages, along with your name below the windshield. Every time you jumped into the main seat of a vehicle, your custom insignia would appear on the sides and your name would appear below the windshield. You could have custom ones for each vehicle type. It would add to the fun of the game, don't you think? On the other hand, it might be a little weird seeing these images change with the pilots, but what's a little suspension of disbelief?

I'd like to see some gunships with flying tiger decals on them, or an old-style pinup girl on an air transport.

Counterstrike had custom spray paints, so this wouldn't be too hard to implement, I wouldn't think. Perhaps if the colors were restricted to only 16 colors, it would keep the overhead down.

My vehicles:

Gunship: The classic flying tiger
Air Transport: Bumblebee
APC: Angel wings (since people "fly" out of the thing)
FAV: "01" (for the Dukes of Hazzard)
Tank: Grim Reaper
Goliath: "Mr. Plow" in bright orange.
Hachimoto: Snowman with a BFG

[ultimate]

Instead of this, I would rather like to see custom squad patches. A squad/clan can make a little logo and it will appear on your member's uniform in-game.

[TrooperJac]

Yeah. Being able to customize your uniform slightly would be cool. Just enough so people could tell it was you.

[NKDeus]

this has been done to death months ago.
Sure it would be nice to do like CSS, but it's never going to happen.

[kamikaze cow]

Instead of this, I would rather like to see custom squad patches. A squad/clan can make a little logo and it will appear on your member's uniform in-game.

Or something like in F.E.A.R. mp, where you have your logo appear next to your name, or simply a 1 2 3, etc to show which squad your in (sort of like what a SL gets, but in the 3d hud)

[Voop_Bacon]

TDhey could have it like UT2K4. My name was Voop_Bacon and on the liscence plate on the hellbender it would say "Vp_Bcn". It would do this with whoever was the driver. Could implement with jeeps if they added liscence plates

[The Punisher]

In the future, liscence plates will be replaced with lasers or something. I remember you could add custom armpatches on Rainbow Six raven shield. It got old pretty fast and no one ever took the time to get down and look at it. It eventually just became a waste of time.

[Buttoneer]

You know what this idea means?

Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag. Every time someone jumps to the server and needs to download the combined logo's of all the squads.

Nice eye candy, but no thanks.

[Stemnin]

How about a spray paint can a la Half Life.

[s.p.a.w.n]

Own logos could be implemented without lag for all.
Simply set up a dedicated download server for all logos, where people can bind a logo to their account.
no burden for the game server in this case.

to erase lag while playing on the client i would suggest this mechanism for logo distribution:
if a new player connects to a running game, the new player get logos from all connected players at once.
the rest of the players download the logo from the new player(s) after a map change (or at end of round).

if DICE is able to introduce in game advertising, they should be able to set up this.

[[TW] Alixsar]

if DICE is able to introduce in game advertising, they should be able to set up this.

They could figure something out, but they probably won't bother.