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Steve Thomas
Minmatar
Sebiestor Tribe
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Posted - 2011.04.20 01:32:00 -
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ok for thoes new to testing
in Golf terms Tranquility is Reynolds Plantation where members can play 117 holes of golf without playing the same green twice becuas it literaly has that may individial cources
Sisi and Duality are more like Don Mueang International Airport. The only airport in the world that I know of where improving the taxiways was was blocked because doing so would require the removal of a green and fairway from the 18 hole golfcource that is inbetween the runways.
Yes I said theres an 18 hole Golf cource between the runways. Game are required to be paused to accomidate landing aircraft and membership is extreamly exclusive.
you have to be a member of the TRAF.
And probably being a bit insain about Golf helps. the point being however that the development servers are EXTREAMLY limmited in how they work compared to live, and you may have a delay loging in at any system apart from the test systems and you will run into delays flying from system to system because the server will need to load and unload systems to accomidate your flying to the test sight, so expect travle times to be twice normal at least.
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If your too paranoid to play EvE. . .
...then your not paranoid enough to play EvE
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Steve Thomas
Minmatar
Sebiestor Tribe
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Posted - 2011.04.20 04:32:00 -
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 Originally by: stoicfaux
Edited by: stoicfaux on 20/04/2011 02:11:01
Duality has its own database, yes? So we can biomass a character to test out a newbie?
Errr, but isn't there a multi-hour delay on biomassing?
Argh.
in order,
Yes, your TQ(the live server)_characters will be safe, wel as safe as they usualy are in EvE
they have occasionaly sped up biomassing on tests where they wanted to test newbi features, but not every time.
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If your too paranoid to play EvE. . .
...then your not paranoid enough to play EvE
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Steve Thomas
Minmatar
Sebiestor Tribe
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Posted - 2011.04.20 17:45:00 -
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ok so far
Carbon is not compatable with the latest ATI drivers, needed to roll back to last years to keep characeter creation from crashing out.
virtual all movement is a pain to use)
Tutorial needs a lot of basic edits (for example how many pages are in each section, but you know about thoes already)
Random movemtents and odd "teliportations" in a lot of the animations but I think you know about thoes
there seems to be a lot of hiden objects (invisible walls or is it some of the lighing efects) that the camera is coliding into
Pathfinding is so bad I found it faster to undock and redock and try again.
thats not counting the reality that often you get stuck for no aparent reason
I Realy REALY want my character to have a flashlight. or night vision gogles. or something
several pages tend to pop under whatever is currently on the UI
occasionaly the UI seems to want to "restack" winows for no aparent reason
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If your too paranoid to play EvE. . .
...then your not paranoid enough to play EvE
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Steve Thomas
Minmatar
Sebiestor Tribe
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Posted - 2011.04.20 18:16:00 -
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oooh kay did a fm character on the second time, All I have to say is
Time to Vagina 0.0 seconds.
time for camera to become permalocked on said bodypart, ~13 seconds.
please, turn this off, go back, work through the bug reports, and try again.
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If your too paranoid to play EvE. . .
...then your not paranoid enough to play EvE
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Steve Thomas
Minmatar
Sebiestor Tribe
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Posted - 2011.04.21 03:50:00 -
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Edited by: Steve Thomas on 21/04/2011 03:52:28
and avatar controls and some of the indicators being missing, this is more of a tuneup issue however
2. Mission 1:
Rate the first Mission and the associated tutorials
(1-5 scale)
2
ok a couple of things,
A)"Token of Submission." ok please take the people who would wrather be developing your Vampire SM game and move them to that department. or are you hoping for a AO rating from the US? ;P
b) the tutorial you mentioned being burried in F12 should have been part of the tutorial train.
leftover egg is. . . creepy, how did we get on board the newbi ship (and for that reason why the heck are we boring a ship in space in the first place, its probably the lest comon thing that happens in EvE online and probably still will be with this tutorial)
c) landing inside structure, get catpulted out of structure, then getting stuck in structure trying to warp back to the npc station. bad design guys, how the hell is some new player suposed to know with no real feedback why there ship is bucking like that and not warping
3. Mission 2:
Rate the tutorials after returning from Mission 1 and the Objectives and tutorials of Mission 2.
(1-5 scale)
1 or 4
your told to undock with a weapon. . . that has no crystal.
Im assuming the delay in getting the crystal shown in the follow up tutorial at the warp gate was not intended, if not, then this is fail.
4. Mission 3:
Rate Mission 3 and the associated tutorials
(1-5 scale)
2 its kind of meh, its another fetch quest. oh and the "station" was doing some kind of weird broken structure shapechange thing most of the time I was flying too it.
5. CaptainĘs Quarters General Feedback
-- a. Rate the overall 'feel' of the CQ
-- b. Rate the Layout of the CQ
(1-5 scale)
overall not bad for "Starter houseing" however anyone whos 9.999 rated with various corps will be annoyed after a while. most of my complaints are that (1) frankly the frame rate was not acceptable and (2) trying to change the settings off max could charitably be described as a crashathon
6. General feedback
- In your own words, please provide general feedback for the new CQ/Tutorial experience. Also feel free to give us any comments, concerns, suggestions, and problems you encountered
my big concern is that currently im suspecting that people with current lowend rigs will not realy like this unless you do a lot to tune back things, lets face it, you pushed this out with half of the lighting turned off walls and texturs deliberaly not finished all of wich helps with loading and framerate now but once you start tuning the lighting back on replace the missing objects and geomitry and add back in all of the currently missing texturing skins layers and what all to everything, I have to wonder just how craptastic its going to be.
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If your too paranoid to play EvE. . .
...then your not paranoid enough to play EvE
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Steve Thomas
Minmatar
Sebiestor Tribe
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Posted - 2011.04.21 07:18:00 -
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Edited by: Steve Thomas on 21/04/2011 07:18:20
Duality is not there primary Test server,
this was more of a preview using a speciay reinforced test server. its entirely posible it will come back in "VIPonly" (CCP Developers and QA only) mode.
as long as they dont pull a boner like they did with PI and shove it out to live in the next 6 weeks it should be ok sometime this fall.
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If your too paranoid to play EvE. . .
...then your not paranoid enough to play EvE
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Steve Thomas
Minmatar
Sebiestor Tribe
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Posted - 2011.04.25 19:48:00 -
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I was going topost about the problem I ran into, my 430 Gforce has a serious perfomance hit (running at less than 20 FPS in the CQ compared to the 9800 at around 40-50 FPS) but I sorted it out. It was just a driver issue
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If your too paranoid to play EvE. . .
...then your not paranoid enough to play EvE
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