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Fog of War and IFF to EVE
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Ymmi Stenson
Future Overlords
#1 - 2012-05-24 07:11:55 UTC
I would like to see some changes done in EVE.

First of them is the removal of local. And I mean as intel tool. You could allow local chat as some sort of area chat, wich would only work in same grid, not whole system. So you could tell your opponent to GTFO, but you couldn´t do that to hostile in other belt. Also it wouldn´t show members untill they speak.

I want little fog of war. You guys know how IFF works in military world? That´s what we need as intel tool for eve. I want to see all ships and pods shown as signals in radar screen. IFF tells you wich ones are friendly and wich ones are neutral. IFF system would tell you wich ones are friends and wich ones could be hostiles or neutrals. It would show your friends names at close range, but the signal strenght would be weaker at distance, and then it would show only blue sign and if you go really far, all signals would be gray. Of course at close range it would show neutrals as gray, reds red and so on. Cloaked ships would not be shown since they are stealth, cloaked.

Actual GUI could be some sort of radar sphere. Visualition of D-scan. Instead of getting list of all the stuff in system, you would get zoomable sphere where you are in center, and signals are around you. Signals would be shown similar way than you show stuff in star map. If there is lots of signals, it´s really strong colour and large, if it´s just single signal, it´s a dot. That way you could see if there is massive fleet warping around or just single tiny frig.

Share your toughts.
Rond Dorlezahn
State War Academy
Caldari State
#2 - 2012-05-24 07:21:07 UTC
+1 to visual D-Scan, but it'd take a lot of testing and tweaking.
Ymmi Stenson
Future Overlords
#3 - 2012-05-24 07:22:30 UTC
Visual D-scan could be overlay to your vision like tactical vision is.
Emrys Ap'Morgravaine
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#4 - 2012-05-24 07:26:25 UTC
Ever play a game called I-War? it had exactly what you're talking about .

Plus a wondrous thing that's unheard of in eve called "physics"...

Oh, and cockpit views.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FKjszHQI9w

Em.
MotherMoon
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2012-05-24 07:36:58 UTC
Not just that, how about a real solar system map? Like a modern, or even old Sci fi game would have?

The fog of war could be applied to the solar system map, let it come out as it's own window, and it could be made the main intel tool

http://dl.eve-files.com/media/1206/scimi.jpg
Emrys Ap'Morgravaine
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#6 - 2012-05-24 07:42:42 UTC
Idea: Let's all to go iceland, duct tape every CCP Dev to their chairs and force them to play the sci-fi titles we grew up with?

X-Wing vs Tie
I-War // I-War 2
Freespace // Freespace 2
Descent? (lets face it, there's plenty of miners who'd love to be able to fly INTO huge asteroids and set up mining colonies right?)
X Series
Homeworld (maybe?)

What have I missed?
alittlebirdy
All Hail The Liopleurodon
#7 - 2012-05-24 07:48:57 UTC
Ya cause that will not be broken for 5 years right LOL
Ymmi Stenson
Future Overlords
#8 - 2012-05-24 09:29:13 UTC
MotherMoon wrote:
Not just that, how about a real solar system map? Like a modern, or even old Sci fi game would have?

The fog of war could be applied to the solar system map, let it come out as it's own window, and it could be made the main intel tool

Well new solar system map is something we must have soon. Current is just flashback from 2003.
Richard Desturned
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#9 - 2012-05-24 09:52:45 UTC
you should feel bad about posting this

npc alts have no opinions worth consideration
Nova Fox
Novafox Shipyards
#10 - 2012-05-24 09:54:10 UTC  |  Edited by: Nova Fox
Emrys Ap'Morgravaine wrote:
Ever play a game called I-War? it had exactly what you're talking about .

Plus a wondrous thing that's unheard of in eve called "physics"...

Oh, and cockpit views.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FKjszHQI9w

Em.


Go play another game that isnt eve.

Because we dont have cockpits for capsuleers at all, oh no sir, We this thing called a BRIDGE.

FoG of War I can see being done as part of the new and improved remove local.

Physics do exist in the game. They're not realistic then agian there isnt a single sci-fi that gets it 'exactly' right. For good reasons, Real life isnt fun at times.

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