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Rail
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Posted - 2004.03.11 06:01:00 -
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Edited by: Rail on 11/03/2004 06:04:46
I'd like to propose a vote of the player community that we ask CCP to make the space stations bigger. My reasoning is this. Many stations have a rendering artifact (perhaps not on all graphics cards?) that makes them ripple as the view moves. This is caused by near and far clipping planes in the renderer being too far apart for the size of the station model.
Also, and this is the more important reason. It just looks silly for massive battleships to be inching their way out the launch tube that is completely contained inside the ship. Most stations don't look like they can hold one battle ship much less 10 or 20.
Plus I think a bigger obstacle in space could give some fleet battles an interesting complication.
Now there might be some technical reason why the stations can't be bigger, but what do the players say? I vote bigger.
Rail
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M0RIARTY
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Posted - 2004.03.11 06:50:00 -
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It just looks silly for massive battleships to be inching their way out the launch tube that is completely contained inside the ship. Most stations don't look like they can hold one battle ship much less 10 or 20.
I vote bigger.
Rail
Yes please.............
I agree with the bit about BS looks silly exiting a space station that is not big enough for it.
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Posted - 2004.03.11 06:52:00 -
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it would be pretty simple to double the scale factor on those models. They could run a quick test in Chaos. Shouldn't take more than 2 minutes.
But then they would have to adjust docking distance, which is another 2 minutes. Devs are pretty busy ya know
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Bjorn Nilfheim
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Posted - 2004.03.11 07:07:00 -
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the gallente industrial station is gigantic, about 5 times the size of most stations.
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Kirmok
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Posted - 2004.03.11 07:09:00 -
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Yeah, bigger stations would be nice. I don't know how difficult it would be for CCP though.
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Baldour Ngarr
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Posted - 2004.03.11 08:30:00 -
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Which zoom setting are you on? I've yet to see a station anywhere that isn't at least one thousand times the size of my battleship.
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Titan AE
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Posted - 2004.03.11 09:50:00 -
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Yes the stations supposedly hold in excess of 50 ships,since we have seen that many people inside at times. Some of the interiors depict the ship parked in a huge anti-chamber with a passage outside that you could fly 6 BS through side by side, judging from the scale of the BS in the room. The corridor I am thinking of is vertical and depctics numerous other antichambers very far off.
Yet when we roll up to a station, or worse undock the scale makes you think that the station would be lucky to wedgy 10 frigates in there. Some of the station docks are too small for a BS to fly though. Obviously there is a reason they are small and its graphical and engine based. So, change the system with a good exuse, put a big tree shaped thingy outside and slap a ship icon on there when someone dock, put the station itself off to the side a bit. I don't know how nice the tree dock could be made to look but at least people would have something better than warping up to tiny station and thinking it looks impossibly small, and thus sort of stupid, at least in terms of immersion in the game world.
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Mieko
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Posted - 2004.03.11 09:53:00 -
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Well it ain't a zoom problem. It's a peg and a hole problem. It don't matter how close you look, that peg just don''t fit in that hole.
I vote for bigger. I've always voted for bigger.
Mieko
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Dagant
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Posted - 2004.03.11 10:24:00 -
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Yup.. bigger would be better.. :)
Flying through planets is also a problem for me.. although I know this would be more difficult to change.. :/
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fras
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Posted - 2004.03.11 11:02:00 -
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Listen, if Doctor Who could fit all that stuff in his Tardis those stations can take a few BS alright! 
I do agree it looks a bit funny undocking from some of those minmatar stations etc.
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Scorpyn
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Posted - 2004.03.11 11:03:00 -
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Make stations bigger : Why not? They do look kinda small to me... ...but on the other hand, a lot of things look out of scale...
The graphics problem : It's probably caused by the fact that you have Vertical Sync set to Off. Set it to On and the problem will (hopefully) disappear. (This is caused by the image in the gfxcard memory being updated at the same time as the image is sent to the monitor, causing some graphics errors.) If it doesn't help, add advancedDevices=1 to prefs.ini and play around with the extra graphics settings you get in the esc-menu.
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Vigo Barboza
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Posted - 2004.03.11 11:34:00 -
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my vote
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The Monk
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Posted - 2004.03.11 12:00:00 -
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I have often thought the Stations look to small in scale... Please make them bigger.... Test it first of course so they dont lag...
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Posted - 2004.03.11 12:34:00 -
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I have never really thought about this. Probably since I am not in a BS.
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Siddy
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Posted - 2004.03.11 12:36:00 -
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maybe make BS's smaller 
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