This is for the civil war, but I'm not too happy with it.
It will be good for now.

Hi vjeko, sorry for my slow reply. I've had problems accessing the forums since this morning for some odd reason. I've been getting an error 500 message when I try.

Anyways, i've just this moment gone through and updated the images in the first post, so check it out to see your handiwork. If you ever feel an information post is outdated, just let me know about it. As an alternative to checking this thread for the random event images though, just check out the Random event images direct on Sharepoint.

I personally like your images and think you're doing a good job. Only you can decide when an image is ready though. If you're not happy with an image, then keep trying. I've already uploaded your latest images to Sharepoint, but if you decide to revise them then I will upload the new copies as soon as I see them.

the flag with an emblem other than the Federation.

I believe that this civil war picture is better:

That is nice. I guess you could put a little of that fire just on the lower edge of each flag.

And if you add the body of a dead man " in transparency " so that we distinguish this as a grave?

Ok, I tried to do it:

Good idea, but you forgot the head and put the body in the opposite direction

About this picture, why not use it for the:

Academy Enlistments Record
50% increase in personnel gain for a short time.

Ok, fixed the body, but I didn't forget the head. I made it like there was four windows on the torpedo, and the body is visible trough them.

it's better. Very good.

Yeah, we might as well use the image for Academy Enlistments. We don't otherwise have a use for it, although the Warp core looks a little out of place for it. The body in the torpedo for the Popular Advisor one is a nice touch too. I've added them both to Sharepoint and the list.

Thanks to starfleet for the idea.

These are just concepts, I will make another tomorrow and you will have to choose. I don't have the time now, but tomorrow.

Hmm cool idea, although the microphone isn't the most scifi looking. But it's instantly recognisable.

I do have one comment though - what's the green streak near the top-left of the anti-empire speech one? It looks like a green comet or something.

I vote pro empire.
Seriously now that is nice. I look forward to seeing the alternative.

The green streak is a "streak of hope in the bad event"; nah, just kidding, It's my fault, didn't noticed it. The alternate will be with a different microphone. More retro-looking so that anyone can recognise it. You will decide which one will be put ingame.

Maybe is better to use crowd of aliens swearing federation or simply putting x over feds logo... i know you will have to do image for each empire

You know, looking at the pro-empire image, it also has a coloured streak in it, but that one is blue so it's harder to see. Matress notices all.

Crowds might be a good idea as Zeleni says. You could just have a banner with all five of the empire logos on it to make it non-race specific. Or if you wanted to make it scifi looking, make the banner a holographic TV, like a news report or something.

vjeko1701 Images look good. it is good to see a set of fresh ideas look at these. I got to a point of drawing a blank on seem of these. plus there are a few that need reworked to make the more "multi-empire friendly". Sorry guys I haven't been around all to much of late. I bitten way too much off to chew these days between work, college, and my band... I've been trying to figure out a way to clone myself but only madmen want to do it, and there is no telling what they would hehe.. I'll try to find some time to drop in and critique my predecessor here, and if I can squeeze time I can try putting out some more of rework the images that sj2290 put out to either clean them up or make them more "multi-empire friendly" If you all are interested drop by http://www.reverbnation.com/bartleyalexandre to check out my bands project. or if you want to do my homework PM me hehe :-P

Why not Val. It should be noted that are generic images intended for all the empires; I think that the presence of vessels isn't necessary for the anomalies, stations and others.

Can you remove the vessel and keep only the station and enlarge the image of this station?



The same thing for this picture, remove the vessel and keep only the anomaly and enlarge the image of this anomaly?



The same thing for this picture, remove the vessel and keep only the nebula?



The same thing for this picture, remove the vessel and keep only the wormhole and enlarge the image of this wormhole?



and also the following images: Dyson Sphere (Sphere Only), Cytherians Encounters (Cytherian face to rework and enlarge and face only), Subspace Reaction (Anomaly only), Geographical Expedition (without vessel), Covert Scans (remove the vessel, add other blueprints)


Rework the ribbon to look like a little more than the movie.

For the Fuel leak, keep the fuel level, remove the vessel and replace it by the back of a warp nacelle losing some plasma


Repalce this Starbase by a non trek starbase

I don't know about that. The pics should be race-geenric but the element of familiar vessels in these picture give the feeling of Star Trek, the feeling of a great show this game is based upon.

There may be another solution, it would make 5 times the same image for each empire but by putting each respective ships and the bases of every empire.

Example



for this event, make 4 other same picture but put 1 starbase of each empire inside the 4 others pictures.
The result will be 5 times the same event for each empire with different starbases.

Creating five images pentruples(?) the amount of work that our artists need to do. Plus it also pentruples(?) the memory demands of the game images, in download size, hard drive requirements, and load requirements. My images folder is already 96.7mb and I know for a fact that it's going to grow. On top of this, I simply don't know if Mike intends to allow multiple images to be used. The artists could create the images only for the game not to be able to load them. We'll need to discuss it with him first, and he isn't here at the moment.

It would be easier to just leave the images as they are, and maybe remove the ships as you suggest, but I agree with Val; people *expect* the ships to be there in at least some of the images.

You're right Matress, I saw in your random events texts some sentences such:

Subspace Bubble (A random ship is destroyed)
Subspace Bubble - Contact has been lost with the IKV _____. The ship was on a scouting mission for the Empire, and her reports will be missed. It is unknown what has become of her. May her warriors find glorious battle wherever they may be!
Our Imperial Navy is all that lies between our families and our enemies. The loss of a ship - any ship - must be explained before our enemies discover our secrets. It seems however, that this time our enemy is nature itself. A distress call was sent out by the RNS _____, but the message was garbled. The Tal Shiar has managed to piece it together, and have concluded a Subspace Bubble is the cause of the loss. May her Centurions know they died serving Romulus.

I had forgotten that this type of sentences are related to these images. Sorry!!! bad Starfleet

Ok, sorry for the time it took me but I was busy. This is the alternate to the Anti/Pro empire speech. I tried it with an retro looking microphone but It was unsuccessful, so I put the mic from the previous version.

And I have one question, why isn't the Alien shipyard or Plague picture posted of the first page. I know they were created.

I hope that these hands look GC enough:

I think they are all great. Good work.

Starfleet suggested that this event is about Replicator shipment and so I present two alternatives to the first image, you decide which one of the three you will use.