Golya
Caldari
Destructive Influence
IT Alliance
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Posted - 2010.05.12 16:06:00 -
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We all moan about lag, some more than others, you are chasing a rainbow if u think that it will ever go away, the shear numbers/weight of data the game presents to the nodes/servers makes this a pipe dream. Having played eve since it started in various guises, I can confirm that the improvements in game code and hardware have only just kept up with the popularity of the game, once 10k users online was milestone it seems laughably small now in comparison with todays numbers. The only possible way to reduce lag within the game is to reduce the eyecandy, remove the data intensive sub-routines and have a more basic, more leaner gameplay. One would say a gameplay for the purist where quality of game play overrides the quality of the visual aspects.
How many of you are willing to forgo the following:
1. Local window and the ability to chat there ? ( afterall do you walk into a pitchblack room and a window pops up to tell you who is there ? local is not realistic and losing it would make pvp far more interesting  ( I would get rid of all the other useless chat windows too ones that nobody uses anyway. leaving just Corp, Alliance and Fleet. I do have a real problem with local spamming, be it in jita with the isk spammers, scammers offering " not to be missed deals" on fake items or the people quitting eve promising to return double any isk sent to them, then into my area of interest 0.0 with the infantile smack talk and constant spamming of local chat with non stop rubbish text, IMHO if the children do not play nice with their toys then take them away. I never talk in local an most of the time I have in minimised so it would not be a loss to me.
2. Ship textures. I am not bothered if the outside of my ship is blue green or a rusty red I spend 99.9999999 of my time inside looking out and as long as I can see the brackets/overview of targets what they look like is not essential.
3.Space/planets/moons Get rid of all the extra eyecandy involved in these. Snow storms on ursa geo or a gas cloud around zaphod does not make the game any better for me compared to a lag free or reduce lag enviroment in which I can enjoy the game.
All these are not drastic and apart from upsetting those who stare at the screen at the pretty pictures and marvel at the textures of the ships and structures instead of actually doing anything in the game they would not be missed after a while.
Just my POV. flame if u must, give it consideration on its merits just do not dismiss it out of hand. Eve is still a good game and there is nothing remotely like it out there that comes close.
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