Animation Lacking

What's your opinion?

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Hello all. I just wanted to make a suggestion that I believe would really add to the game. Currently, the ship models for all three races are great looking. I have noticed something that is lacking, however. None of the ships have any animation for their turrets or other systems, if applicable. An example is the TEC flak frigate; it has four turrets, but they never move when firing on fighters and bombers, and only the direction of the shot coming out of the ship changes angel. There are several ships like this in the game, and I think it would really add to the immersion of the turrets would track their targets when necessary. Other games, such and Homeworld2 and Nexus: The Jupiter Incident. If Ironclad has any opinion about this, I would love to hear it.
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
Did anyone else notice that the TEC Siege Frigates only launch rockets from their port side launchers? I do agree that more animation would be awesome. Not sure how that would impact performance, except that I'm sure it would be badly :)
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
There is a forum discussion on this idea.
See it at https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/?forumid=440&aid=174216#1439785

It seems to be generally agreed that nothing can or will be done about this issue at this time, due to several restraints, some of which would be re-doing the meshes for those ships, and adding compliancy for lower-spec machines. It's all in that discussion.

Enjoy the game!
Siege of Centauri
Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
Thanks Sibilantae. The discussion has actually been going since last March. Since its picked up again in the other thread I'm going to lock this one just so its all in one place. It can continue in there but for those coming to this one, the most recent word from Ironclad is "it's something we are looking into for an update."