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SomeoneStrange
Adamas Anima
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Posted - 2011.06.22 20:10:00 -
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I love the new turrets from the latest Incarna patch. Makes blowing ships up much more fun to watch. Unfortunately, the new laser animation for Strip Miners looks somewhat pathetic. I used to feel like I was raping asteroids with my mighty HULK, with its roaring yellow lasers visibly tearing particulate off the rocks around me. Now all I have are some pale, blue beams, with sounds effects copied from the old Miner I's and Miner II's.
Who thought this was a good idea?
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Jabu Smith
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Posted - 2011.06.22 20:35:00 -
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I have to add they do look great but do seem to lack the power of what you are trying doing. I mean these beams are great for the regular mining lasers. but for strip miners they should appear a lot more Hoowah!!
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Valentina Valentia
Caldari State War Academy
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Posted - 2011.06.25 23:16:00 -
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Strips and Harvesters 1, and 2.
Turret Hardware: Excellent - ***** Turret Animation: Poor - * - while they move and retract on the ship at warp, THEY fail to swap and often end up shooting through the hull or at incorrect angles from the turrets. [to show this, go mine and move your ship so that it should change the lasers from top to bottom and you will see the issue]. Miner Laser Effct: Meh - *** could be better.
OLD, Good points - larger beam, return flames, orange color was more dramatic, sound was definitly better.
NE Good Points - cleaner look at the point of origin, and that is about it... the color is meh..
Solution - New point of origin effect, clean and blue, transition to OLD asteroid hit effect and add in return streams as in Old, and OLD sounds... This would be a ***** Excellent/WIN!, well once you get the tracking working right also.
Thanks, a 9H per day miner who isn't a bot, and has 32M SPs and 2 years+ in exhumers (and posted with my alt here).
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Tyme Xandr
Gallente DarkSide Industries
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Posted - 2011.06.26 02:00:00 -
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Mining lasers pull ore from the roids, Artillery shells would blow them up. So I think they are in line with what they do.
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Khaan Shimaya
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Posted - 2011.06.26 02:08:00 -
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look closer, strip miners are two lasers and a tractor beam, makes sense, no?
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Xandralkus
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Posted - 2011.06.26 02:23:00 -
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Two lasers and a tractor beam makes sense, but...
The new strip miners completely lack the visceral effect of shooting a giant plasma beam into an asteroid, and pulling the plasmafied, glowing remains of the asteroid back to the ship.
I like that I can wear my bluetooth wireless headphones and watch TV, and turn around whenever I hear the sound at the end of the cycle - but I want the old sound effect back. Make the mining beams beep or something when the cycle ends.
Invert the colors. Make the incoming stream bright yellow/orange, and the twin plasma beams blue. And up the rotation speed so it looks like they're agressively ripping the asteroid apart.
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Amaroq Dricaldari
Amarr Vengeance Industrial Militia
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Posted - 2011.06.26 06:54:00 -
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CCP wants something to nerf?
IN that case...
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Rainz D'Wicked
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Posted - 2011.06.26 07:44:00 -
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I have to agree, I remember seeing strip mining lasers at work before I knew what they were and saying WOW! now almost as soon as I trained up to use mining barges I feel like I'm firing a slightly more powerful tractor beam at the asteroids...
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Gordon Hellbender
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Posted - 2011.06.26 08:19:00 -
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Yeah, the new strip miners are quite underwhelming >_>
I liked the old "giant ray of destruction" much better.
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Seloena
Gallente
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Posted - 2011.06.26 09:54:00 -
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New beams (blue beam and 2 orange beams rotating on the sides of blue) could be very very cool if they were just little bigger. Thats all.
No one like it as much as the old one because when zooming out they are to thin and almost invisible. In past we could zoom out when fleet mining and watch beautiful web of crossing beams - now this effect is rather poor. Im sure that making them just bigger would be enough - probably because of the 2 side beams it could be even better then the old one. ____________________________________________ Character creation using 2 screens |
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kerradeph
Gallente Penumbra Military Industrial Complex
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Posted - 2011.06.26 16:49:00 -
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what is they made it so it's 2 of the old strip miner effect with the blue tractor beam mixed in. would look amazingly bad ass... or terrible.
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Whezker
Gallente Next Stage Initiative Trans-Stellar Industries
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Posted - 2011.06.28 11:58:00 -
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+1 The miners need more DRAMA [i]-Safe the Carebears/i] |
Taureana
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Posted - 2011.06.28 14:00:00 -
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Originally by: Jabu Smith I have to add they do look great but do seem to lack the power of what you are trying doing. I mean these beams are great for the regular mining lasers. but for strip miners they should appear a lot more Hoowah!!
I have to agree with Jabu... they look great, but seem rather lacking
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Kaldo Kahmori
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Posted - 2011.06.28 16:03:00 -
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Hello, I think eve has lost something. The new strip miner to see something out of ****. It always nice to come true in a belt where it already could be heard from far. I miss the old strip miner with their loud sound and her good animation. There comes no more joy to play. The strip miners have won eve and now this ****. if those changes come and go even further into the negative, many turn back the eve. is appealing way. very sad eve team . With best regards.
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Singoth
Dark Shadow Industries
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Posted - 2011.06.28 16:45:00 -
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I indeed support this motion!
I love the new turrets, but I think they'd be better if they resembled the old ones a bit more. Current turrets, but then with blue lasers and an orange, seemingly more 'powerful' tractor beam would do, along with the old sounds. Would make it about 20% cooler :D ------------------------------
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Kaldo Kahmori
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Posted - 2011.06.28 16:49:00 -
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Hello,
yes very nice idea . But the old me would have to extend the fun of playing comes back . greeting
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Xandralkus
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Posted - 2011.06.29 07:23:00 -
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Bring back the bright orange, asteroid-ripping tractor beam of doom! The only reason it glowed so bright was because the crap it pulled out of the asteroids was still glowing.
The dual, rotating cutting beams need to be cool and epic too. Right now they just look like "Meh, be patient, we'll bore through the rock eventually." They need to be bright, flashy, aggressive, and vicious-looking.
It's not like it would be too OP to give mining barges and exhumers cool-looking beams!
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Tyme Xandr
Gallente DarkSide Industries
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Posted - 2011.06.30 21:27:00 -
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Originally by: Xandralkus They need to be bright, flashy, aggressive, and vicious-looking.
Because the career of mining envelopes all of those adjectives ....
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Pashino
Minmatar Venice Academy
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Posted - 2011.07.04 14:48:00 -
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I agree the old animations and sound were much better. Now, at any distance over 2 km, all you see from any mining ship is a thin blue line, probably not even that from some colorblind ppl. Those big old orange beams coming from strip miners were great motivation to up-and-coming miners, the "Someday, I'm gonna mine like that!" feeling is now gone. And how about getting different color shades when using mining crystals? That's been asked for for ages.
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Jango697
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Posted - 2011.07.20 01:56:00 -
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I just rejoined EVE today after a year-long hiatus, and I have to say that I was an absolute sadface when I found my old Hulk didn't have the sex appeal it used to.
No more loud, bright, and outright obnoxious strip miners? Blashpemy!
I spent over an hour looking through the menu, trying to find an option to turn on the audio for the strip miners, thinking that it had become an optional sound sometime after I'd left. Alas, that was not the case.
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SGT FUNYOUN
Gallente
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Posted - 2011.07.20 04:43:00 -
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Yes. I say keep the three beams look, but make it into a triangular configuration; with two MASSIVE ORANGE COLORED flaming lasers blasting the H*** out of the roids and a nice GIGANTIC BLUE tractor beam vacumming it back up.
Make the sound an option where you can cut it off completely, have it be intermittent like it is now, or on constantly like it used to be.
Perhaps make the Strip Miner's laser emission head have 5 - 15 lasers (10 for a T1, 15 for a T2, and only 5 very closely concentrated into one at the point of contact on the roid for a deep core) that spin around the tractor beam and actually look like they are drilling through the rock... kind of like in that movie Core. That was an AWESOME looking drilling system on that movie.
I want that on my Hulk's Strip Miner turrets. Yargh. I be SGT Funyoun. King of the Pirates!!! |
Commander IceQ
Caldari Spit and Ductape Maintenance Trade Wind Commodities
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Posted - 2011.07.20 06:41:00 -
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I like the current look, but agree that it does put you to sleep. More than usual.
They should intensify the beam brightness a bit, and the rotation on the mining laser should be increased to give it more of the drill feeling. (the example sgt funyoun gave is brilliant! ^^ )
Also having the "drill" colour change with crystals would be awesome. ^^
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SGT FUNYOUN
Gallente
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Posted - 2011.08.12 03:08:00 -
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So you agree with my "core" idea huh?
We need to get this to the GM's stat.
How do we make this thread sticky? Yargh. I be SGT Funyoun. King of the Pirates!!! |
Barbara Nichole
Cryogenic Consultancy Black Sun Alliance
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Posted - 2011.08.12 04:28:00 -
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they only look great if you break out your magnifying glass... I liked the old. I was hoping taht ccp wasn't done them them and that they would be beefier..but so far...
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