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Thargoid wrote:

I like the concept of the rank badges, but it looks a little odd to just have the pips free-floating above the badge like that.

In RL I have sometimes to do with heraldics. There the status of a person has to do with the number of tooth in a crown that is on top of the coat of arms. (In German it is still an expression for an important person: "Er hat viel Zacken auf der Krone") So it would be consistent with heraldics to put the rank on top of the badge.

Ahruman wrote:

KZ9999 wrote:

Ahruman Will you need the pirate symbol still? The only time it's seen is in use to show the ranks. With new unique ranks symbols, is there a need for it.

It’s used for a few unique ranks, notably Winston’s. It’s also used for the ranks - Banned - and Thargoid, but I’m not sure whether those are used at all…

Ok. How about I do two types of pirate badges: 1) for use of actual pirates 2) for those who are banned. I'll have a go at making a Thargoid one as well, maybe something with green plasma glow octagons.

After I uploaded the last batch I realised that I stuffed up. The ones I put up were version c designs, and I've actually reached version d. These images have been directly scaled to match the currently used rank badges so you'll get and idea of how they look.

Harmless and Mostly Harmless.


Poor, Average and Above Average.


Competent, Dangerous, Deadly and Elite.


For those above us mortal (and synthetics)...
Supreme Commanders, Clock-tower killers (bloody wings) and Assasins (the black wings of death.)


As for myself I hope to be this someday...
blue wings for a blue-sky-thinker.

Looking good! Now I want a real one ...

I agree, looking good. How about Imperial Purple wings for the top Poohbah, or whatever the highest rank is.

They look very good. However, I think that it would be better if Competent, Dangerous, and Deadly went middle, bottom, and top feather, in that order.

But whom am I to tell you what to do? These are good and I'd like to see them as the new rank symbols.

Harmless needs to be touched up, though. It's hard to make out the design.

Latest update on the rank, mainly bit of fine tuning on the designs by adding a blurred black boarder around the shapes with a alpha channel of 75%. I feel that it improves the images greatly.

Harmless and Mostly Harmless


Poor, Average, Above Average


Competent, Dangerous, Deadly and Elite.


For the Supreme commanders, snipers, assassins, blue-sky-thinkers, thargoids, pirates, and trapped pirates (banned)


If anyone had suggestion for both the thargoid and banned badges, stick it in the thread.

While these images may look a little blurry at 96x32 resolutions, the master they are generated from is actually 1536x512 pixels in size. They would work well in the game. When you score a rank, the next time you dock in a GCW station you get a congratulations message screen from the Guild with a badge in the background.

When the last few badges are finalised I'll make up a pack with the following contents:

• * The badges in a small size PNG like above.
  * Large size (256x768) png versions
  * The master SVG vector files that the badges are generated from.

I've also uploaded a new version of the Current Logo vector design zip pack. Having a look a the problem that ClymAngus i've added two new versions a sub-layer. One uses a 50% grey border tirm to to the current version. The other has a blurred white sub-layer at 75% alpha. Allowing for the fact that SVG alpha blur isn't supported by every program yet, I've also packed large size PNG's as an alternative. Just hit my sig' link and download from there

Nemoricus wrote:

Harmless needs to be touched up, though. It's hard to make out the design.

Seconded.. having said that though, they look awesome!

Just a quick add on posting

As requested the revamp of the Harmless badge.


Improved versions of the Supreme, Assassin, Sniper and Thargoid badges.


Because I'm quite proud of these two, here they are in at double the size.

If anyone is interested, the gold on the Thargoid badge is my concept of their written language. It's from a insect Ideogram language idea I developed for a story I never wrote a few years back.

The only one I'm still not completely happy with is the banned badge, so any ideas to soup-it-up will appreciated.

Brilliant designs! for the banned badge you could put the pirate sword through the skull's head and x's for eyes

And what about Oolite 2 Art Directors?

second Griff's 'banned' idea.

These designs are so purdy. Sigh. Y'all are so creative and talented.

Can we have them on the F5 screen please?

Are there uber-rankings in Oolite, or are the improved Supreme / Assassin / Sniper icons for high-ranking Ooliteers forum rankings only? I want the uber-purdy 'Supreme' one day.

So I would suggest the following:

Harmless / Mostly Harmless / Poor = white

Average / Above Average / Competent = bronze

Dangerous = 3 feathers silver

Deadly = the old 'supreme' edit: 3 feathers gold

Elite = the improved 'supreme' (in game only, of course)

The new Harmless looks good.

The old supreme shouldn't be used in-game if these are going to be used as there would be a style clash. I also think that this set of badges would work very well.

Logo updated to all maps. Looking to impliment the new one when work allows me.

I’d use these for the forum right now, except it would be unfair to the hypothetical competition. :-)