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Sparkinator
Gallente Center for Advanced Studies
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Posted - 2008.05.07 20:09:00 -
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Edited by: Sparkinator on 07/05/2008 20:11:31 Too me it just seems a bit silly having these hulking big battleships with tiny guns, it seems as if they don't scale very much at all, on frigs and small ships it's evident but the bigger you get...I just start to wonder hwy I'm piloting a ship that can house a small town and it's guns are barley visible.
Anyone else think they should make the guns bigger? If I'm using large Hybrid turrets they should look more like weapons meant to be mounted on a ship of war, not my car.
Edit: Oh yea, I always thought it would be cool to be able to paint ships or something, but dunno if that would be more lag or not, but hey it WOULD be cool! --------------------------- Your neighborhood sociopath. |
Demonic Sentiment
Caldari Dissonance Corp
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Posted - 2008.05.07 20:45:00 -
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the large turrets are larger then the small ones but... i guess they could make em a bit bigger
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Vego Slentis
Copperhead Arsenal The Fourth District
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Posted - 2008.05.07 20:57:00 -
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While I wouldnt object to redoing (again) the graphics, and increasing the size of large ship weps, I guess I just dont see it as a priority.
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Sparkinator
Gallente Center for Advanced Studies
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Posted - 2008.05.07 23:35:00 -
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Originally by: Vego Slentis While I wouldnt object to redoing (again) the graphics, and increasing the size of large ship weps, I guess I just dont see it as a priority.
It could easily be done and included in a future patch, nothing game breaking or intensive. --------------------------- Your neighborhood sociopath. |
Abrazzar
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Posted - 2008.05.08 00:06:00 -
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Yeah, Turrets always strike me as being a little on the small side.
Small turrets are the only one ok in size, though they could use a pod or tower. Guns on a stick look a tad bit awkward.
Medium turrets could use some enlargement. I found that the large turrets look good on cruisers.
Large Turrets are kinda really small. They're used on battleships, which have the main purpose of bringing firepower to the field. I think they should look like that, with really big turrets, at least 50-100% larger than they are now. The way the turrets are sized on that ship in the 'Last Exile' anime are looking great.
Of course this is just my aesthetic feeling, the graphic designers at CCP might disagree. -------- Ideas for: Mining Clouds
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ITTigerClawIK
Amarr PIE Inc. Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
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Posted - 2008.05.08 00:08:00 -
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Ships on the whole need rescaling, a frigate should not be half the size of a cruiser it should be a hell of alot smaller and BS's shoudl be bigger
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Grandma Tsunade
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Posted - 2008.05.08 01:21:00 -
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Edited by: Grandma Tsunade on 08/05/2008 01:22:31
Originally by: ITTigerClawIK Ships on the whole need rescaling, a frigate should not be half the size of a cruiser it should be a hell of alot smaller and BS's shoudl be bigger
I always thought that, too. They need to represent their abilities. I fly a Dominix, and it has big-ass engines on the back and flies at 144 M/S, and it's turrets are barely visible. It's a war machine! it should have huge freakin' guns and be a hell of a lot bigger for it's speed.
Edit: Bah chose wrong guy, this is just one I made to mess with a ******** corp mate, I'm the OP >.<
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Pliauga
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Posted - 2008.05.08 05:07:00 -
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That big shiny mount on the dominix could really mount something bigger.
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Reven Cordelle
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Posted - 2008.05.08 08:32:00 -
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Agreed, When i hear my Arties raging on someone, I can't even see them. These things are 1800mm Cannons of DEATH. They sound like death, but they look like pea shooters. Make em longer, beefier and generally BIGGER.
Also, the size of turrets on some smaller frigates sometimes looks a bit daft. I think turrets in general could do with a redesign. The rifter hull looks awesome unfitted, put turrets on it, and those two down the back look dumb.
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Pliauga
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Posted - 2008.05.08 09:00:00 -
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You know what, I think weapons do look almost the right size on dreads, especially on this concept (no idea who made that image, but I love it).
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Tarel Necor
Minmatar Brutor tribe
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Posted - 2008.05.08 10:09:00 -
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I propose visible missile launchers on ships
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Ellaine TashMurkon
CBC Interstellar
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Posted - 2008.05.08 10:25:00 -
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Edited by: Ellaine TashMurkon on 08/05/2008 10:26:51 Edited by: Ellaine TashMurkon on 08/05/2008 10:26:30 I guess that the trick is with the visible ship size. Ship with proportionally large guns looks small. A flying town with relatively small guns has a chance to look big. Visual ship size is a problem as there is little reference. When I was a newbie, I didnt know that those large things on gates are 800 meter long battleships. They moved in a silly dance in all directions and looked rather like toys.
In SF movies, large ships look large because they are constantly compared with smaller units. When you see a swarm of fighters, small like flies, or some cruiser equivelent, 10 times shorter, you clearly see that an imperial star destroyer or battlestar class ship are huge. That, and camera zoom-ins and outs on windows, hangars and the bridge. Ah, and add the slow, stable movement.
If you see an imperial star destroyer on its own, you have no idea if its 10 kilometer long or maybe 100 meter or maybe its a toy fighter with 4-year old pilot inside.
For an Eve graphical designer its even more challenging. He cannot force you to watch super cool zooms and smaller ships in front of Your screen all the time. No, players will rather make comepletely un-cinnematic camera views. He cannot even make that thing move like a majestic giant slug because people actually fly those, fight in them, and would die of boredom if every move took 10 minutes. To make things worse, battleships move up and down and bump each other in funny positions, and some of them are fitted nano.
So, eve designers do not have many tools to show that their ships are big and scarry. They must do this with small windows, fancy details (and here they fail) and, well, proportionally little guns :)
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Maceross
Kate.Moss YTMND.
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Posted - 2008.05.08 10:59:00 -
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Well back on topic, i agree that turrets could do with resizing as they do look really silly right now on most ship sizes especially BS (dreads do look right though). Also yes visible missile launchers would be ace!
I thought that they where doing an special effects / turrets / enviroments graphical updates where still in the works? I hope im not wrong here as these things all jarr against how beautiful the rest of the game is now.
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