Just read the article about the Fanfest and noticed this
REFLECTING SPACE – ANOTHER GRAPHICAL UPDATE
How useless of an update. 90% of eve is played in tactical mode when the camera is so far away you can’t really see any ship models, so why spend valuable development resources on reflection.
Eve is like a very very very old wrinkly person in a serious need of a plastic surgery and there are so many areas that could benefit from a graphical update such as
new graphics/VFX for lasers and weapons (you’ve done it for mining lasers, so why not for weapons). right now all weapons VFX (with the exception of doomsday) look like the default debug ray tracing line you get out of the box from any game engine. I know CCP can do better than that.
a redesigned ship control UI. The ugly circle thingy has been in eve since day 1. How hard is it to give it a refreshing look?
That’s great!! The ships are finally going to look like they are part of the environment. Once it’s implemented I’m going to fly to a blue star and admire the artists’ work for a while.
Yea but it’s that 10% that makes it worth it.
Quality, not quantity.
I like the idea of ship reflecting spacial effects but am wondering if that will up the specs? My desktop is really high-end so it should easily handle it, but the laptop I take to work for playing EVE during my lunchbreak is an older i3 with UHD graphics. If it’s a feature that can be toggled off on the UHD like the explosions and asteroid environments, that’s fine. The asteroid environments are toggled off on the laptop.
Not that I don’t have the money for it, I just noticed my local computer store is offering laptops with Windows 11 and I don’t want to use that because some of my work-based development tools won’t work under Windows 11.
Surely the first graphic thing CCP should sort out is the horrid over-brightness of some areas. When I visit corp HQ in Oipo the background in some areas is so bright that it makes reading the Overview really quite hard.
This has been brought up many times every year. Our CSM reps tell CCP, but then we never hear back. @Brisc_Rubal@Mike_Azariah
My working theory is that high-end graphics cards don’t have this problem and it is only people who have lower-end stuff that see the washed-out ridiculous whiteout-in-space.
What does that mean?
Does it mean that CCP may try to update the UI and everybody’s going to hate it?
Does it mean that CCP is impotent in bringing us a newer UI?
Does that mean the UI we got now is the best we’re ever going to get?
Or are you not in liberty to let slip even a sliver of info?
Every time CCP touches a UI item or anything related it gets “streamlined”, looks out of place, makes very little sense and loses utility. Just because some clown wants pretty colours doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.
