Great idea, but how would they fit in the station?

I believe that creating more moments that give a feeling of scale like this would have a much greater effect than any graphics update.

Great idea, but how would they fit in the station?

I've wished for a sense of scale too. One possible way to do it is have people walking around when in hangar view, just doing ship maintenance, loading and unloading cargo. Granted it is a bit difficult with all sorts of ship sizes, so they could just be walking around under the ship or driving a forklift and such things. No need for these elements to "touch" the ship.

It would also help stations feel more alive, right now you're just kind of there in a big fancy box, only in the Amarrian station is there any sense of life, and that is from the shuttle buses moving around.

Exactly what I forgot to add to this post. If we would be able to approach closer to the ship and just be able to walk around under the ship combined with zooming out alot more then this would give us the proper sense of scale. That would be fantastic!

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Fly a noctis up to an orca and look at the disparity.

I like the sense of scale frigates give currently. It would be very nice though to see my Fenrir scaled properly against it (I should have to pan my view to see the whole thing from the station interior), rather than just looking "twice as large" as a frigate.

Hopefully with the new tessellation technology Halldor showed off at Fanfest, they'll be able to bring the bigger ships much closer to the platform to really wow players with their true size.

For perspectie: An America mile is roughly 1600 meters. That means 400 meters is 1/4 of a mile. The Myrmidon is 601 meters tall. That means if you stacked 3 of them on top of one another, they would create a tower over a mile high. For some more perspective, compare the height of the Myrmidon to the World Trade Center, which stood at 417 meters, not counting the antenna spire.

It's hard to get a true sense of scale because, well, the human mind just cannot concieve of things so big.

I think ability to see multiple ships in your hangar would provide a good sense of scale.

You could just right click and show info on your ship then click the picutre of the ship... that will tell you exactly how big it is. I.e. the drake is 526 meters.

Or watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPeb547pis0

Everything in eve needs rescalign basically, planets and stars are too small, stations too, pretty much everything is too small. If you can put two battleships into a carrier then carriers should be FAR bigger than they currently are too. Loads of scales are way out in game.

Everything in eve needs rescalign basically, planets and stars are too small, stations too, pretty much everything is too small. If you can put two battleships into a carrier then carriers should be FAR bigger than they currently are too. Loads of scales are way out in game.

I agree, it would be great to get that sense of scale. (As an aside, good video series that illustrates the size differences here)

Yes, we are all aware ship scaling is messed up, no it won't be a priority since it changes nothing in gameplay.

This video was posted in the OP.

Talk of vids reminded me of the best perspective video I have seen. Also why we really couldn't have eve ships in dust.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ti7mLcIQ1k

not mine.

I have a different thought about ship sizes and that's that they're simply too large.

A frigate being 747 sized..

The materials for a building a ship of this size would indeed be perfectly fine. When we go into something like a Battleship, I think that It wouldn't be possible. The material level would be unimaginable to build one.

It wouldn't be possible to create such scale in CQ, It simply wouldn't work.

When you think the size of a BS and materials required, think onto the sheer size and material level of a station. It would take centuries to build and numerous planets worth of material to build.