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Rex Nex
06-10-2008, 04:53 AM
Yeah, features. Not nothin' too big.... here's some features I would like to see....


POCKET TANKS

Replay System... Although I would start off by making this really simple, this is what I want to see happen. Lets say you played a really good game? Mmk? So your at the "You Win" *Insert cheesy popcorn noise popping here* screen, and you get three choices. The First two ones are normal, and the third is Save Replay. Then, in the main menu, another colorful-text game-link is found, "Replays". There, you can view/delete replays.

Now, saved replays can be found in the pocket tanks main folder. For people who (And please tell me you all can) get into there, you can find the replays area and share replays! (Guess you just find a file hoster)


Options Menu Additions... this is pretty much all those random options we have always wanted....
Practice Mode Weapon List Order: There's a couple different available options available here... You can select "Alphabetical Order", "Default Order" (By Weapon Pack), and "Order By Type".

Alphabetical order would make the weapons be in that order, and if you press a letter key you skip down to the first weapon with that letter. Order By Weapon Pack would have a small list of the different weapon packs that you have downloaded. You click on one and the list changes to all the weapons in that pack. Order By Type would have all the weapons ordered by the type of weapon they are, such as Glue, Dirt, Proximity, and so on. Weapons that fit into multiple categories go into both of them, and since its practice mode, it doesn't matter if there's two of the same weapons.

Gradiant Colors (Single Player Only): You select two of the colors that you want the background gradiant to be. They would be preset and none of the colors are colors that will be used in any tank or terrain graphic.

Profile Information... This ones great. The game keeps track of your wins and losses, your account name, a button to redo your win/loss steak, and a button to take a screen capture to share it. The only problem? You could have hundreds of different accounts, since all you do is type it in on the tank selection screen.


Now that I think about it... this is the only thing that additions are worth submitting into. Neon Wars wont be updated for a while, maybe not at all, and SDXB is... about done. I already got a forum improvement thread out...

ekoz
06-10-2008, 12:39 PM
i like all of them alot, ecspessialy replays. then, you wouldn't have to buy an expensive screen camera. and the profile info, there's no problem. you could just:

chjange the entire system, and make it so that when you first start the game, you make a profile, including tank name, color, so on that keeps all stats, then you, at the main screen can choos Options: Profiles, then you can add or change an existing one, then, when you ever start a game, it simply asks you which profile you want to use, and it remembers the one you last used.

that way, you also save time not having to select name or color ever again.

of course, the ordered practice list is a godsend, and we all want it.

as for the backround thing, useless, but entertaining. i would like it.

Zwaken
06-10-2008, 02:37 PM
Wrong section, should be in suggestions :D

wildgoosespeeder
06-10-2008, 04:55 PM
I like all of them a lot, especially replays. Then you wouldn't have to buy an expensive screen camera.

You won't need to buy expensive equipment if you can download Debut (http://www.nchsoftware.com/capture/index.html) or HyperCam (http://www.hyperionics.com/hc/index.asp) for free! Debut on the main site is completely free and HyperCam is free, but the annoying caption "Unregistered HyperCam 2" appears. I am really using HyperCam for tests anyway. Debut is my main screen capture program.

Leon
06-10-2008, 06:55 PM
Sounds cool. It'd also be nice if they would legitimize the white, black, and "shiny" tank colors.

Rex Nex
06-10-2008, 07:58 PM
Hmm... they might soon.

I use Camstudio. I dont make movies anymore, but if you use the right things with the right options, you can get prestine quality videos.

sonysk84life
06-10-2008, 08:21 PM
if you want the full version of Hypercam 2 go here (http://www.mediafire.com/?mdltmd4ztie)

minmay
06-10-2008, 08:41 PM
Piracy, yay!!!

I wish this forum had a rainbow tag, it'd save me a lot of time.
Um, you do know you can get banned for that, right? Software piracy, I mean. You can also get a $250,000 fine, I believe.

ekoz
06-10-2008, 08:46 PM
i just got debut. i LOVE it!

sonysk84life
06-10-2008, 08:46 PM
yea but were all family here..... right?

blue_moon
06-10-2008, 09:06 PM
No. And the majority of us (me) are anti-piracy advocates. I would do anything stop piracy in this world for good.

sonysk84life
06-10-2008, 09:11 PM
oh you want me to remove the link

blue_moon
06-10-2008, 09:13 PM
No, I don't don't think everybody got to download it yet. Might as well make it available for everybody.

Doomedrusher
06-10-2008, 10:42 PM
Gradiant Colors (Single Player Only): You select two of the colors that you want the background gradiant to be. They would be preset and none of the colors are colors that will be used in any tank or terrain graphic.

That will cause so many graphical glitches… It’s not even funny. It will make floating-dirt weapons look very, very bad.

Rex Nex
06-10-2008, 11:07 PM
And I dont support it either d00mrush. But it has been suggested before, and it is a feature, right?

minmay
06-11-2008, 02:27 AM
I don't really see the point of it, though. The black-to-purple looks great with Pocket Tanks. I can't imagine it as anything else. Sure, a neon green to yellow would be funny for a couple games, but then it would just be an eyesore, and so would most everything else.
Perhaps the ability to import background images? Imagine battling in front of a nice, relaxing sunset...

Of course, adding pretty much any new FEATURES to Pocket Tanks would ruin the simplicity. I wouldn't like that.

Rex Nex
06-11-2008, 02:54 AM
I don't really see the point of it, though. The black-to-purple looks great with Pocket Tanks. I can't imagine it as anything else. Sure, a neon green to yellow would be funny for a couple games, but then it would just be an eyesore, and so would most everything else.
Perhaps the ability to import background images? Imagine battling in front of a nice, relaxing sunset...

Of course, adding pretty much any new FEATURES to Pocket Tanks would ruin the simplicity. I wouldn't like that.

Thats the one lone thing that worries me, thats pocket tanks' only limit.

sonysk84life
06-11-2008, 04:32 AM
i cant tell where tar ball is when its at the top of the screen...
i would like the back ground all white

AWP
06-11-2008, 05:50 AM
I wouldn't like white background. My eyes would kill me.

sonysk84life
06-11-2008, 06:47 AM
my desktop background is this
http://www.majhost.com/gallery/sonysk84life/pocket-tanks/flash.gif
and my eyes are fine

AWP
06-11-2008, 06:50 AM
I reeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaalyyyyyyyyyy like your desktop.

Leon
06-11-2008, 05:27 PM
What if one of your friends comes over to play games and suddenly discovers he's epileptic?

Rex Nex
06-11-2008, 05:55 PM
Then he dies.

AWP
06-11-2008, 06:46 PM
That was so cold from you, Rex :)