Have you tried this? Go try it and we’ll talk. I don’t mean go fly straight up to a roid and drill it. I mean, get aligned and get a reasonable speed going. Then let’s see you fill your hold. Unlike you, I’ve actually tried this, many times, and it sucks. Sucks a huge intergalactic one.
By the way, anybody who “sits” in an asteroid field is asking for it. Let me say again that speed is the answer to everybody’s ganking problems. You can’t get up to speed when you’re grinding down the side of an invisible hit box. Why can’t you just acknowledge how stupid it is to allow such a thing to exist in a free-flyer game?
You sort of tossed off the “they’ll probably fix the hitbox” issue which is the only thing I’m concerned about. They just had a major release and didn’t fix it. I’m new and don’t know but I’ll bet that the hitboxes on those monster asteroids have been the same since they were introduced into the game. Anyone?
I don’t want to know how to work around the hitbox problem. I want to let the developers know that invisible, over-sized hitboxes are an IDIOTIC idea for a fly-freely-in-space game.
That’s all I’m sayin’.
I’m doubly pissed because I’ll bet it could be fixed quite quickly. I understand that collision checking is cpu intensive but I’d bet that simply doubling the vertices in the now apparently SQUARE hitboxes would allow them to be shrunk down and shaped enough to where everybody would be happier with them. In fact adding four additional vertices to a box (that’s 50%!) and having somebody size them to all the huge asteroids would probably get the job done to everybody’s satisfaction. Easy? I don’t know but my gut tells me they don’t care and it will never be addressed.
I’m glad you still enjoy the game. I hope it brings you countless hours of satisfaction and joy. For me though, until they fix the most obvious screw up in their programming, I’ll be doing something else. Anything else. I’m going to clean the bathroom today. It needs it because up until a couple days ago I was neglecting everything else in my world to play eve online.