EVE General Discussion

Thats not really a graphical update.
Its just changing the models .
We are talking about race wide effects and proper distinction between armor tank and shield tank besides from different colors .
Not to mention much more detailed models instead of relying on textures for the heavy duty works.

You'll expect a game which takes in a game worth of hard earned cash each month would be progressing MUCH faster

The problem with that argument is each new version of one of those engines is met with the release of a new game. They don't go back and redo an old game with their new engine. Mirror's Edge and Bad Company 1 are still using Frostbite 1. Crysis 2 is still using CryEngine 2. And so on and so on.

They make updates to the games and the engines, but none of them have gone back and redone those games with their new engines because it's a lot of work even for non-MMOs. in many ways, you're essentially remaking the game from scratch because the engine is the backbone of the entire game.

For MMOs, upgrading engines is a task that takes years. After Blizzard updated their engine for Cataclysm, they said they probably would never do it again because of the amount of time and money that it costs. WoW is their cashcow (pro rhymes). You can call Blizzard lazy if you want, but with the amount of money they make off that game, can you imagine how much trouble it must have been for them to upgrade their engine for them to outright say "we're never doing that again"?

Not everything can be art and for the time it was created HW 2 is just that.

But eve is mmo so shiny space whales is all we can wish for shinier they get less soul they have,i cant feel mass of eve ships i cant admire them on the other hand 2003 hw2 is awe inspiring all with DX9b and decade old graphic..silly isn it.

I like EvE space ambient suns look good background too,stars need work on they are from Pentium 3 era,i like hel even if it isn't updated.

This year has been a year of progress for EVE.
Especially true since the release of Retribution.
Crimewatch, new missile effects , new ships ,rebalancing , new clothing ,etc.

However , there is still a LOOOOoong way to go.
And when we look at a game from 2003 .

Homeworld 2

We are just catching up to the graphical effects of a game for 9 years ago and in certain areas, such as the destruction mechanics , in-game production and aesthetics ,we are still lagging behind.
Not in terms of quality , but in terms of variation and depth.

We need WAY more community ship model events and much faster pace in updates.

Not on the mechanics ,and not on catering to the carebear whiners .
They're working.
The game aesthetically is good, but we just need to fill in the pot holes.
Lets start polishing the graphics before working on the endless list of "things that would be nice to have "

Irony: Derrick Smart is a goon and was set to join Goonwaffe but wisely decided Eve sucks.

' the way it moves is very unrealistic and arcade motion'

saying that like it is bad thing..how about a frig bumping 19km ship lol rly eve have NOTHING in space movement that can be considered better.

I'll make it simple.

Good gameplay > best graphics.

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Gameplay over graphics any day. I guess it's easier to judge a games graphics over it's gameplay when you grew up with games that look like this, as opposed to this.

(I'm not sure that the old game that I linked was any good because I don't recall ever playing it. In fact, I don't even know what it's called. What I do know is many of those games back then were great. these days so much effort is put in to graphics that the actual gameplay & story is over-looked. The Witcher was actually good, which is rather rare these days.)

Far Cry: CryEngine
Crysis/Crysis Warhead: CryEngine 2
Far Cry 2: Dunia
Crysis 2: CryEngine 3
Far Cry 3: Dunia Engine 2

EVE already has good gameplay :P
What hurt does it do if we start working on the graphics ?