Logian Myshkin
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Posted - 2008.09.08 10:36:00 -
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Improvements
The biggest improvement I have to suggest seemed so convoluted that IÆd have to implement some shitty diagrams, so I have. It involves creating a moving background within Eve while warping, without re-inventing every system in Eve. At the moment you have a sphere of perception surrounding your ship, which depending on the universe you are in has a texture pasted onto it. Presumably there is also the sphere, tangible at the moment, that contains everything in the solar system. Making this set of everything the sphere that contains your universe backdrop would be the easiest to suggest, but also the hardest to implement, verging on impossible as well as an impossible waste of server and your computer processing. What I have in mind is using your sphere of perception, along with a percentage of your co-ordinates within a system and distorting/enlarging the system backdrop as you move through space. Cue diagrams.
This first diagram shows a ship in the middle of space, for the purpose of my inability to create spheres weÆre in flatland for this. The green is the first 50% of the solar system, the purple is the rest. Now when the ship moves 25% forward, maybe warping to a station, he gets deeper into the purple, thus the image in front of your ship seems to enlarge as an image that once filled 50% of a sphere now fills 75%, and stars that where once NW or NE are to your west and east flanks.
I think also that it would be great if everything under the attribute for items was categorized much like ships are. Also it would be a good idea to implement rules on the use of negatives and words such as bonus and penalty. I think seeing as the description of the item for the most part has whether or not itÆs a penalty or a bonus itÆs not strictly urgent, but it would be nice to get rid of bonus and penalty and stick with negatives and positive, or get rid of negatives. Imagine a ôPower grid penalty of -3%ö whilst trying to compare 40 items at once.
Finally some minor improvements, every time I come out of warp my ship jerks a little in speed causing my own jet stream to appear in front of me. No not lag, always. Also when I activate an accelerator gate after aligning my speed drops to 0km instantly then into warp, feels a bit weird. The speed that is viewed should be the motion of my ship not the speed IÆm aiming for. How can a ship drop to 0 instantly?
Summary and Minor changes.
- New warp gates, warp effects.
- Inter-stellar warp changes to avoid viewing internal structure meshes.
- Changes to solar system backdrops to incorporate position in solar system.
- Jet stream fixes.
- Better structure to the item attribute tab.
- Ability to view multiple overview tabs.
- Using multiple filters when using the World Map.
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