I've moved the things the crew shouts into an external file, and would like to ask you all for suggestions on additional things they could shout. Below is the current file. I think each category is fairly self-explanatory. Suggestions for additional situations where crew should shout something are also good. :D
{
"suspOffline": [
"Suspendium offline!",
"I've lost lift!",
"Lift chamber offline!"
],
"needCoal": [
"I need some coal here!",
"Almost out of coal!",
"Coal! Quick!",
"Where's the coal?",
"I need some coal!",
"Get me some coal!",
"Hurry up with the coal!"
],
"needAmmo": [
"I need some ammo here!",
"Someone get me some ammo!",
"Out of ammo!",
"Where's the ammo?",
"Ammo, quick!"
],
"hit": [
"I'm hit!",
"Argh!",
"Aaagh!"
],
"injured": [
"Help!",
"Medic!",
"Man down!"
],
"aboutToExplode": [
"She's going to blow!",
"That thing's gonna fly apart!",
"Stand back!",
"It's going to explode!"
],
"falling": [
"Aaaah!",
"We're falling!",
"Brace for impact!",
],
"damageReport": [
"Repairs needed!",
"Damage report!",
"This could use some fixing.",
"Get some tools here!"
],
"hullBreach": [
"Armour's gone!",
"Hull breach!",
"We've lost armour!",
"We've got a hole.",
"Hull breach!",
"Hull breached!"
],
"fire": [
"Fire!",
"Quick, water!",
"Fire! Fire!"
],
"aimedFire": [
"Aim carefully!",
"Take your time and aim, lads.",
"Waste no shots, crew.",
"All gunners: aimed fire."
],
"rapidFire": [
"Fire at will!",
"Gun them down!",
"Shoot them out of the sky, lads!",
"All gunners: rapid fire!"
],
"directHit": [
"Take that!",
"Bullseye!",
"Direct hit!",
"Yeah!",
"Got you!"
],
"victory": [
"Victory!",
"Yeah!",
"That showed 'em!",
"We did it!",
"For the empire!"
],
"defeat": [
"Damn!",
"That's it, lads.",
"We're done for!",
"We surrender!",
"No!"
],
"outOfResource": [
"We've run out of [resource]!",
"We're out of [resource]!",
"That was the last of the [resource]!"
],
"veryLowResource": [
"We're nearly out of [resource].",
"Almost out of [resource].",
"Report: [resource] running very low."
],
"lowResource": [
"We're running low on [resource].",
"Starting to run out of [resource] here.",
"Report: supplies of [resource] are getting low."
],
"repaired": [
"Back online.",
"Got that fixed.",
"Patched up.",
"Repairs underway.",
"Got it working!"
]
}
The code looks like it has a ton of sad emoticons due to your indentation style.
Anyway...
I think that they should also shout when they crash into other ship or lose sections - both when a section is badly damaged or completely blow off the ship.
"Oh s-" (Would that even work? How long before an explosion do crewmembers say stuff?)
Victory:
"Huzzah!"
"We got them!"
"We wiped them out!"
Defeat:
"How could this happen?"
"There's nothing left!"
"Oh..."
DamageReport:
"We'll be splinters if you don't get me some tools!"
"Someone fix this before we fall apart!"
Hit:
"Ack!"
"Fu-"
HullBreach:
"The walls shouldn't be blue like that!"
"I almost walked off the ship, and this isn't a deck!"
"I can see clouds, that's not good!"
"We're hit!"
Falling:
"Aaaaaahhhhh!"
"Ohhh noooooo!"
"We're going down!"
Repaired:
"Yes! Fixed!"
"We're ok here."
"This should work now!"
I think there should be categories for general taunts, that the crew would shout at the beginning of the battle, during victory, when your side is winning, etc. But not on ships that are taking heavy damage.
Victory/winning:
"These goons couldn't shoot the ground if they were lying face-down!"
"Look! They've mistaken us for the sky!"
"My dog shoots piss better than you shoot bullets!"
"They drop like flies!"
"Who taught those pigs to fly?"
Beginning of battle/winning:
"These ugly asshats are blocking my view of sky! Let's punch holes through them!"
"This fight will be ours before it's begun."
"We'll kick them so hard, they'll have to change their coat of arms to a sore ass!"
"Let's win this!"
Winning:
"At the rate we're beating them, the war would be done if I left to take a shit."
"Who knew fighting these chumps would be boring?"
"The sky is getting more blue by the minute."
"They do realize they're supposed to shoot us, right?"
"We're wi- better not jinx it."
"I think we're beating them!"
Beginning of battle:
"I can hear them coming..."
"I see them!"
"Here they come..."
"I'm pretty nervous right now, how about you?"
When an enemy ship is destroyed (can share dialogue with "direct hit"):
"Got them!"
"One down!"
"Huzzah!"
"The sky is getting more blue by the minute."
"There we go!"
Loosing:
"This is bad."
"They're turning us into swiss cheese!"
"We're not gonna make it, oh, no!"
"We should get out of here!"
"Who thought this was a good idea?"
"Who's in command?"
"We're getting riddled!"
"No, no, no!"
"Things are going south pretty fast."
One crewmember carrying another to the sickbay:
"Are you ok?"
"Hey! Can you hear me?"
"You don't look so good."
"You're going to be fine! I'm taking you to the sickbay!"
"Move aside! He's been injured!"
"Move aside!"
Crewmember carrying water:
"Move aside! There's a fire!"
"Move aside!"
"Move, move, move!"
When a crew quarters module is destroyed!
"Damn! That was my hammock!"
"Where are we going to sleep now?"
"I hope I don't have to sleep next to the engine now."
We should come up with as many taunts as possible so they don't get redundant. Also, they could appear less often than other forms of crew chatter. (I'm thinking about another game, Gratuitous Space Battles. On the battle screen there's a box full of radio chatter, and the crew has some pretty fun things to say. "The galley's been vaporized! Looks like we're eating take out food tonight." But after a battle if feels like you've seen everything they have to say, because there isn't enough, so stuff gets repeated allot.)
When a crewmember says a taunt, maybe other crewmembers next to him could reply with "Ha!" if the ship isn't taking too much damage? (Kinda ruins your laughing mood when the ship you're in is blowing up around you, I assume.)
Also, some of the HullBreach shouts might work well as "Loosing a section of the ship" shouts too.
I think it would be good to include any variations you can think of for existing shouts, to make them as varied as possible.
RapidFire: (maybe some of the taunts can go here?)
"Let's get them!"
"They won't realize what hit them!"
"Let's piss on em'"
Beginning of battle:
"Look at them all..."
"Battle stations! Battle stations!" (I think this should appear more frequently than the others.)
"Man your battle stations!" (I also think this should appear more frequently than the others.)
"Fire the guns!" (I also think this should appear more frequently than the others.)
"This is no drill!"
"Let's piss on em'"
"Get the guns ready!"
"Repair crews standby!"
"Prepare for battle!"
"Get ready for a fight!"
"They won't realize what hit them."
"Let's get them!"
"Hold on, we're going in!"
"We're coming in!"
Fire:
"Help! Fire!"
"Ack! Fire!"
"I can't see through this smoke!"
"I can't breathe!"
When an enemy ship looses lift: (This can share shouts with "When an enemy ship is destroyed")
"Down she goes!"
"And down, down, down, she goes!"
Colliding with another ship: (This can share shouts with "falling")
"Is our pilot trying to kill us?!"
"What are we doing?!"
"Someone tell the bridge they're killing us!"
"Why aren't we steering clear?"
When you command a ship to move into an enemy ship:
"Ramming speed!"
"Brace for impact!"
"Here it comes!"
Loosing a section of the ship: (This can share shouts with "HullBreach")
I have one for a crew member bringing someone to the sick bay:
"Stay with me!"
"Don't die on me!"
"Almost there" (maybe when 75% of the journey is complete?
Aerial Emperor
I've moved the things the crew shouts into an external file, and would like to ask you all for suggestions on additional things they could shout. Below is the current file. I think each category is fairly self-explanatory. Suggestions for additional situations where crew should shout something are also good. :D
Captain
The code looks like it has a ton of sad emoticons due to your indentation style.
Anyway...
I think that they should also shout when they crash into other ship or lose sections - both when a section is badly damaged or completely blow off the ship.
Commodore
SuspOffline:
"Oh shit!" :P
NeedCoal:
"This coal is gonna be gone soon!"
NeedAmmo:
"I'm running dry here!"
"My bullets are gone!"
Injured:
"I'm bleeding!"
AboutToExplode:
"Oh s-" (Would that even work? How long before an explosion do crewmembers say stuff?)
Victory:
"Huzzah!"
"We got them!"
"We wiped them out!"
Defeat:
"How could this happen?"
"There's nothing left!"
"Oh..."
DamageReport:
"We'll be splinters if you don't get me some tools!"
"Someone fix this before we fall apart!"
Hit:
"Ack!"
"Fu-"
HullBreach:
"The walls shouldn't be blue like that!"
"I almost walked off the ship, and this isn't a deck!"
"I can see clouds, that's not good!"
"We're hit!"
Falling:
"Aaaaaahhhhh!"
"Ohhh noooooo!"
"We're going down!"
Repaired:
"Yes! Fixed!"
"We're ok here."
"This should work now!"
I think there should be categories for general taunts, that the crew would shout at the beginning of the battle, during victory, when your side is winning, etc. But not on ships that are taking heavy damage.
Victory/winning:
"These goons couldn't shoot the ground if they were lying face-down!"
"Look! They've mistaken us for the sky!"
"My dog shoots piss better than you shoot bullets!"
"They drop like flies!"
"Who taught those pigs to fly?"
Beginning of battle/winning:
"These ugly asshats are blocking my view of sky! Let's punch holes through them!"
"This fight will be ours before it's begun."
"We'll kick them so hard, they'll have to change their coat of arms to a sore ass!"
"Let's win this!"
Winning:
"At the rate we're beating them, the war would be done if I left to take a shit."
"Who knew fighting these chumps would be boring?"
"The sky is getting more blue by the minute."
"They do realize they're supposed to shoot us, right?"
"We're wi- better not jinx it."
"I think we're beating them!"
Beginning of battle:
"I can hear them coming..."
"I see them!"
"Here they come..."
"I'm pretty nervous right now, how about you?"
When an enemy ship is destroyed (can share dialogue with "direct hit"):
"Got them!"
"One down!"
"Huzzah!"
"The sky is getting more blue by the minute."
"There we go!"
Loosing:
"This is bad."
"They're turning us into swiss cheese!"
"We're not gonna make it, oh, no!"
"We should get out of here!"
"Who thought this was a good idea?"
"Who's in command?"
"We're getting riddled!"
"No, no, no!"
"Things are going south pretty fast."
One crewmember carrying another to the sickbay:
"Are you ok?"
"Hey! Can you hear me?"
"You don't look so good."
"You're going to be fine! I'm taking you to the sickbay!"
"Move aside! He's been injured!"
"Move aside!"
Crewmember carrying water:
"Move aside! There's a fire!"
"Move aside!"
"Move, move, move!"
When a crew quarters module is destroyed!
"Damn! That was my hammock!"
"Where are we going to sleep now?"
"I hope I don't have to sleep next to the engine now."
Aerial Emperor
Excellent suggestions, thank you. :D
Commodore
We should come up with as many taunts as possible so they don't get redundant. Also, they could appear less often than other forms of crew chatter. (I'm thinking about another game, Gratuitous Space Battles. On the battle screen there's a box full of radio chatter, and the crew has some pretty fun things to say. "The galley's been vaporized! Looks like we're eating take out food tonight." But after a battle if feels like you've seen everything they have to say, because there isn't enough, so stuff gets repeated allot.)
When a crewmember says a taunt, maybe other crewmembers next to him could reply with "Ha!" if the ship isn't taking too much damage? (Kinda ruins your laughing mood when the ship you're in is blowing up around you, I assume.)
Also, some of the HullBreach shouts might work well as "Loosing a section of the ship" shouts too.
I think it would be good to include any variations you can think of for existing shouts, to make them as varied as possible.
RapidFire: (maybe some of the taunts can go here?)
"Let's get them!"
"They won't realize what hit them!"
"Let's piss on em'"
Beginning of battle:
"Look at them all..."
"Battle stations! Battle stations!" (I think this should appear more frequently than the others.)
"Man your battle stations!" (I also think this should appear more frequently than the others.)
"Fire the guns!" (I also think this should appear more frequently than the others.)
"This is no drill!"
"Let's piss on em'"
"Get the guns ready!"
"Repair crews standby!"
"Prepare for battle!"
"Get ready for a fight!"
"They won't realize what hit them."
"Let's get them!"
"Hold on, we're going in!"
"We're coming in!"
Fire:
"Help! Fire!"
"Ack! Fire!"
"I can't see through this smoke!"
"I can't breathe!"
When an enemy ship looses lift: (This can share shouts with "When an enemy ship is destroyed")
"Down she goes!"
"And down, down, down, she goes!"
Colliding with another ship: (This can share shouts with "falling")
"Is our pilot trying to kill us?!"
"What are we doing?!"
"Someone tell the bridge they're killing us!"
"Why aren't we steering clear?"
When you command a ship to move into an enemy ship:
"Ramming speed!"
"Brace for impact!"
"Here it comes!"
Loosing a section of the ship: (This can share shouts with "HullBreach")
"Did anyone else feel that?"
Loosing:
"We should retreat!"
"The ship can't take much more of this!"
"We won't be able to bite back much longer."
Winning:
"Let's hurry up and win this! I have to pee."
Repaired:
"It's Fixed! It's Fixed!"
Captain, Engineering Corps
I have one for a crew member bringing someone to the sick bay: "Stay with me!" "Don't die on me!" "Almost there" (maybe when 75% of the journey is complete?
Commodore
Propeller/engine is offline, proposed by Magelord Exelbirth on Steam:
"We're sitting ducks!"
"We have to get out of here!"
"Why aren't we moving!"
"That was our propellors that just blew up!"
"I can't hear our propellors, can you?"
"The propellors stopped, why did our propellors stop?"
"Our propellors just blew up!"
"Shit, we can't move!"
Loosing:
"Everyone stay calm!"
"Just keep shooting at them!"
After a signifigant number of fires:
"A ship shouldn't smell like this."
"I can barely see through all this smoke!"
DamageReport:
"We need a repair crew here!"
"I need a repair crew, now!"
"Where the hell are the repair teams?"
HullBreach:
"There's a hole here, watch out!"
Beginning of battle: (Gunners only)
"I've got them in my sights."
OutOfResource
"Are you sure that's the last of the [resource]?"
"Is their any [resource] left?"
"There's no [resource] left!"
"Has anyone seen [resource] on this ship?"
"Where is the [resource]?"
"What happened to all the [resource]?"
Loosing a section of the ship:
"I hope nobody was in there."
When all bridges and cockpits are destroyed:
"Who's in command?"
"What's going on?"
"All the bridge officers are dead!"
"What do we do?"
"Keep shooting!"
"The captain's dead!"
"Who's in command now?"
"Why did we stop getting orders?"
"There's no one in command anymore!"
Maybe there should be some shouts for grounding a ship?
Captain
*propellers *the ship ("a ship" is correct, but it gives a more generalised meaning and I feel that it doesn't work that well in this situation)
Commodore
Yep, whoops.
Though, you made me think - "I hope nobody was in there." could work well when other ships on your side explode.