lofty29
Reikoku
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2007.12.06 12:37:00 -
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1. Care to do better?
2. Care to explain why your opinion is more important than every other whiner on the forum? (OH NOES MY DRONES / GRAPHICS / COMPRESSION!)
Quite frankly, if you really hate it that much, go and use the old graphics. There's nothing stopping you.
Personally, I like half of the things you linked. They feel suitable for where they are, and the race.
The quality however, well, do you want to come up with hardware roxxoring enough to render a huge scene with totally insane, fully fully scalable texturing?
Please, I would love you forever, but if you expected crysis, you are sadly mistaken.
Consider if say, each ship has 2000 polys (reasonable).
200 ships on screen = 400,000 polys.
For an MMO, that is alot. A hell of a lot infact. Lower end users would either melt their CPU, GPU or kill their computer by trying to participate in large scale fleet battles. Hell, some go up to twice that.
Now imagine texturing all those polys with details down to every single light perfectly defined (which is basically what you want). Go look at any new games. Mass effect, assassins creed, Crysis. They're outstandingly pretty, but their textures don't scale. They have to keep it within limits so that people can actually run them.
Well, goodbye 8800GTX. You'd need a GTXXX to do what you wan.t
What you are doing is arguing why CCP decided to make the game playable for people who either can't afford or don't want to upgrade to the top end hardware. Well, valve comes in handy here.
In their bi-monthly hardware surveys, it shows that about 2% of people have quadcores, 20% have an 8800 and even less have a GTX. Your hardware is top of the line, I agree, but if you're looking for a game to push it to the limit, a MMO is not going to be it.
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lofty29
Reikoku
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2007.12.06 13:06:00 -
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 Originally by: Cleric JohnPreston
I thought the poly count was the same, just this engine is using Normal maps. Could be wrong but i cant see them upping the polycount that much.
It's been upped quite a bit on stations, some ships, stargates, titans, moms.
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