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It's my new ship - taken it to the end and it can be a blast. I''ve been mucking around with custom room graphics and they all work fine but I'm not happy with my own art. The starting crew, a human and an engi find that there are no sleeping quarters and have put their bedrolls in the sensor and pilot room. I've put them in but they don't really match the FTL graphic style.

Would somebody please make me a bedroll like the ones I added but that, well... that look like they belong better? More pixel-ly? Then I could add them to the sensor room and pilot room. Or, feel free to unpack the file - link here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/oc70qdu929r7h ... tarter.ftl and add them for me

Another artistic add-on I'd love somebody to help me with would be adding some flame graphics to the leading edges of the wingtips and fuselage.

If I could get these things added, I'll write a story for it and post the speedy little bugger.

....a fire ship....*eye twitch* when can I play with it?

Hi Bren

Take her out right now - follow the link and download The Firestarter. It's just the jazzy graphics I want to change. She works fine as is. I'd love your feedback too.

Arcus

Looks amazing, you really like making Mantis ships, don't you?

My only complaint to this ship is that it has no custom fire starting weapons LOL

I do love the look of mantis ships - in my opinion they're the ships that really look like they mean business in the game.
Mmmm... custom weapons. That's something I've yet to try but want to. My main concern there is play balance. Especially if I'm posting it on the web. I'll have to think about that in the future though.

Thanks for the feedback so far, fellas.

balance, screw balance, make them fun LOL

I can't help you on the graphics, but I have to say I had fun with the ship.

If you're taking suggestions, I'd suggest you remove the availability to buy the items you can't mount (teleporter, drones. I assume you can't mount them as there are no rooms for it) and drop the cloak to start. It's wholly unnecessary as the ship is pretty awesome without it.

And maybe drop the extra scanner and other stuff, to justify starting with the pre-ignitor.

Great ideas, 5thHorseman. Could you please tell me how to drop the ability to buy drones and teleporter? I wanted to do that.
I also like the idea of having to buy the cloak - again, I didn't know how to make that possible.
The reason for the extra scanner is that Flint, the pilot, loves to watch his enemies well... burn. He's a bit deranged, I know and I explain why in this ship's story.

Thanks very much

Arcus

I'm not a modder, sadly, but I know it's possible. The forum is not letting me search for any of the words I can think of as keywords, either, which is making it harder.

I recall that in the ship's .ftl file, someone was discussing how there were 2 settings, one for if the ship starts with something and one for if the thing is available in stores. I could be misremembering details, but in general that's roughly correct

Hopefully someone with experience in this will stop by to give more information. Sorry I can't help more!