Originally by: Mara Rinn

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Originally by: Zeko Rena

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Wow i never relised it but boy EVE-Online must really have alot of casual gamers playing it, to be honest, if you cant run EVE-Premium you pretty much have a box that should be on a scrap yard.

Im guessing the only reason alot of people here have such crap machines is because there casual gamers and spending money on there machine to keep it at least slighty upto date is like throwing money down the toilet?

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Wow, and I thought Mac uses like myself were snobs.

The main reason a lot of people here have such "crap" machines is that they'd prefer to spend $2000 buying two computers, not one. Then they only want to upgrade when there is a compelling reason to do so, and prettier graphics in a game that plays exactly the same way is not a compelling reason to upgrade.

Then there's the technological snobs such as yourself who figure that since you have access to the best and latest in technology, everyone else should haemorrhage at the wallet the same way you do and get the best and latest technology too.

As for upgrading a "few components" - any computer older than 2 years will require a complete makeover in order to receive a new video card. The processors are different, the video card slots are different, the memory is different.

There's nothing stopping CCP from adding support for "outdated" hardware by simply allowing the user to turn textures off completely. Textures off, normal maps on, vector shaded single-colour polygons will still look as wonderfully awesome as the fully textured ships do now - that is, they'll be little points of light in the middle of a swarm of blinking red squares.

My laptop runs EVE and WoW just fine. If EVE stops running on my laptop, I stop running EVE - it's really simple. I'm not going to spend another $2000 to buy a desktop machine that makes EVE run awesomely well, when I do most of my gaming while cooking, ironing, or chatting to my partner while watching TV. Gaming on desktop computers is for troglodytes who refuse to interact with the rest of the world outside their basement flat.

There are so many features available to turn off in EVE, to support older hardware with the new "Premium" content is just a matter of turning off more stuff.

Normal maps, high resolution textures, specular highlights, these all require extra work by the processor and can all be turned off without degrading the game play. In fact, turning off the processor-intensive stuff would end up making fleet combat more interesting since you could actually try doing stuff before you die.

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