For the person or group that directs the dev team to ask for test feedback on a change, and then outright ignores the feedback that comes back from the dev team and the test players... that's not a way to keep an enthusiastic player base.

There seems to be a disdain for human beings and all things associated with the human condition somewhere in the decision chain. Nausea is a problem.

Yeah, its not bad, though I notice they DIDN'T HAVE A PROBLEM CREATING AN ON/OFF TOGGLE FOR THIS ONE.

And as always when there is a crisis between the players and CCP (almost every posts in this thread are against the new animations, i have rarely seen such an unanimity), the CSM is nowhere to be seen.

Because conference room game design and the idea sounds good. Perhaps a hint of someone wishing they had become a film director when they grew up.

Form over function, form over function.

I commented to point out that requesting an additional option toggle is not as helpful as explaining why the feature bothers you, because the graphics software team (my team) is currently working on simplifying the graphics settings options.

A different team than mine is responsible for the docking animation, and despite that they haven't posted here, they are reading all of the feedback.

I'd like to thank CCP for taking me back to patch days of old that were always nightmarish and resulted in all kinds of broken things. With the event NPCs, I now get to go tediously reconfigure my overview for each tab preset! While not as tedious as reconfiguring all the game settings--a common side effect of patches in the old days--it still makes me feel a bit nostalgic.

On the bright side, that cinematic docking sequence every time we change ships works perfectly.

I'd give this more than two enthusiastic thumbs up, but I only have two thumbs.

Different menu, different team, different circumstance.

The wallet toggle is off in its own little thing. Darwin commented that his team was trying to reduce the complexity of the graphical menus, which the wallet toggle is not among.

Quite the opposite: I feel that it's very valuable for the developers of new features, like the docking animation, to hear what you have to say, which is why I encouraged continuing to post.

When people ask for a toggle to turn a feature off, usually they are really saying they'd like the feature removed entirely but think that an option toggle is a more reasonable request. Our focus, though, is usually on trying to make something new like the docking animation a positive for more people.

That's why I asked for posters who might say "Add a switch!" or "Take it out!" to instead explain what they don't like about it. Maybe it could be different in some way that wouldn't make you feel that way but doesn't take us back to a black screen or a loading bar for these session changes, and it helps if you offer us thoughts that can help us get there.

Of course, taking it out, or even adding a switch, are always last-resort options, but they're just something we prefer not to do if we think we can find a better spot for the feature that more players will appreciate.

Importantly: Team TriLambda, Eve's art and graphics software team, (mostly) maintains the graphics settings menu but camera (including docking animation) and general UI development is handled by Team Psycho Sisters. That's why I didn't address specific feedback in my earlier comment.


Two people saying a thing have a louder voice than one. Just because someone else has said a thing doesn't mean someone else may not want to offer the same feedback a different way. I don't want to encourage anyone who feels strongly to keep their feedback to themselves.

Too early to rejoice.
Now it is only a promise. Let's see how these promises will be fulfilled.