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LordElfa
Gallente Revan's Fist
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Posted - 2011.01.22 22:33:00 -
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Edited by: LordElfa on 22/01/2011 22:45:09 We all know its coming but what would we all like to see available? I for one would like to see not only avatar vanity options but ship options as well. Particularly the ability to paint you ships even if the options are preselected for us.
What about changes to ship models? Nothing that would alter the functions or stats of the game but perhaps just some preselected model choices or even better yet a character design system like the avatars have that would allow us to make some configuration choices like color, gun locations, engine design and the like. This is something that Star Trek Online has managed to implement without any real issues and Cryptic, STO's maker suck as a developers while CCP has enormous talent. I have no doubt that they could pull this off and it would offer a welcome change in ship personalization that EVE not only currently lacks but looks behind the times in MMO technology for not having.
As long as new options don't increase lag, and still make it easy to identify ship classes, I see no reason for these options to not exist. Your thoughts on the matter?
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Having had time to think about by post, it made me angry that CCP took the damn time and energy to create this new avatar system for something we won't even have a use for for probably the next 7-8 months while meanwhile, our ships, our TRUE characters, have no customization ability at all which is in my opinion, complete and utter Bull****. This is a damn spaceship game and a ship configuration tool should have taken precedence to a human configuration tool. ⎝⏠⏝⏠⎠
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LordElfa
Revan's Fist
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Posted - 2011.01.23 01:15:00 -
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I agree with your take on the matter and I like your ideas you posted. I think your system would work and is indeed how many of the systems that do allow configuration work. ⎝⏠⏝⏠⎠
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LordElfa
Gallente Revan's Fist
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Posted - 2011.01.24 02:02:00 -
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These are all good ideas and Pirokobo's idea is long damn overdue. ⎝⏠⏝⏠⎠
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LordElfa
Gallente Revan's Fist
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Posted - 2011.01.24 09:26:00 -
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Apsidia, you have made my whole week. ⎝⏠⏝⏠⎠
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LordElfa
Gallente Revan's Fist
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Posted - 2011.01.24 20:36:00 -
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Originally by: Pirokobo Edited by: Pirokobo on 23/01/2011 04:03:20 Customization #1:
Alliance and/or Corp logo on hulls.
That or text. I'll be honest I just want to see an OEG Rokh with "My other alliance is a RED Alliance" on it.
OP updated to reflect this long needed option. ⎝⏠⏝⏠⎠
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LordElfa
Gallente Revan's Fist
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Posted - 2011.01.25 06:07:00 -
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That really ****es on my parade. Don't frickin trolls have anything better to do? ⎝⏠⏝⏠⎠
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LordElfa
Gallente Revan's Fist
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Posted - 2011.01.25 10:52:00 -
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On the other hand Apsidia, I'd fly that furry Thrawn.
Seriously though, don't feel bad, I fell for it as well as many others. ⎝⏠⏝⏠⎠
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LordElfa
Gallente Revan's Fist
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Posted - 2011.01.26 20:11:00 -
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Originally by: Hirana Yoshida It's a noble idea but I don't see how it could ever be less laggy than the request to be able to paint ones ships would be. 2x500 people jumping in on each other, each ship with a slightly different look .. the amount of extra data that has to go back and forth is insane.
I think CCP has said that they are looking at the corp/alliance logo as a tag on hulls (or that it would be cool or some such). Question is if even such a small thing would not degrade performance unnecessarily in large scale conflicts.
I can't help but feel that big fleet lag should not be the driving force in everything CCP does. If that's the case, just turn all the ships into sprites and be done with it. The fact is that more than 80% of EVE residents never get into those large battles that go south to lagsville. Its not fair to penalize them for the sake of something they have a 1 in 5 chance of being in maybe one time in their EVE existence.
Now don't get me wrong, I've been in one of those big battles on SiSi and it was awesome but it was also practically node death. I can't see what little lag this would bring making any noticeable impact in what was already 1 frame per 20 seconds. Still, I imagine you could always have a button to disable those effects, the same as turret anims for the sake of making large battles go smoother. ⎝⏠⏝⏠⎠
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LordElfa
Gallente Tri Corp
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Posted - 2011.01.28 21:38:00 -
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Originally by: Gee****zle MacCloud
well problem is the nodes only have a certain amount of bandwidth, and when thats exceeded then u have a problem. yes ccp have a lot of nodes available and yes market hub systems have their own dedicated node. each other node hosts several systems.
if you start asking tens of thousands of people to send and receive custom made skins for their ships, the amount of people using it in hisec will outstrip any and every available byte of bandwidth in all the nodes ccp has... meaning nodes will max out everywhere and start to melt.
corp and alliance logo's on the other hand are stored client side. alliance logos have very very specific requirements and only appear after a major expansion because they have to be included in the patch. corp logos are built around a series of pre defined components, so implementing them would be fine too as theyre already client side.
plus the art department has expressed that they dont want eve turning into a space version of second life, cause it looks effing apauling!
Those are extreme examples and not at all definitive of what would happen. Plus, giving the option to make changes to your ship hardly turns EVE into Second Life. ⎝⏠⏝⏠⎠
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LordElfa
Gallente Tri Corp
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Posted - 2011.02.05 18:23:00 -
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ships deserve at least as much customization as Avatars since they are the real star of EVE. ⎝⏠⏝⏠⎠
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