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GUYS, Theres an AWESOME feature YOU probably DON'T know about.

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Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
#81 - 2013-01-21 12:26:09 UTC
Heimdallofasgard wrote:

  • It would be nice if the route started at the centre of the outgate in your own system

  • It immediately makes you want to reach out and right click on one of the points so you can edit your route without going to the map screen.


Indeed! A cord that links from the outbound star gate to the skybox!

Interact with the local cluster of stars by pointing at them in the sky! But that could get a little irritating when you're trying to click something that's shooting at you, or a box you're trying to loot, or …

Day 0 Advice for New Players
Solhild
Doomheim
#82 - 2013-01-21 12:36:10 UTC
Mara Rinn wrote:
Heimdallofasgard wrote:

  • It would be nice if the route started at the centre of the outgate in your own system

  • It immediately makes you want to reach out and right click on one of the points so you can edit your route without going to the map screen.


Indeed! A cord that links from the outbound star gate to the skybox!

Interact with the local cluster of stars by pointing at them in the sky! But that could get a little irritating when you're trying to click something that's shooting at you, or a box you're trying to loot, or …



or from your ship to the outbound gate then continuing through the route Cool
Malcanis
Vanishing Point.
The Initiative.
#83 - 2013-01-21 13:40:14 UTC
Scatim Helicon wrote:
oh wow

what if cynosaural field and cyno generator icons appeared next to the 'background' star in the distance rather than the silly right click menu on the capacitor?


I want this so much I could cry

"Just remember later that I warned against any change to jump ranges or fatigue. You earned whats coming."

Grath Telkin, 11.10.2016
Nico elScorpio
Care Bear Hi Sec Industries
#84 - 2013-01-21 14:02:51 UTC  |  Edited by: Nico elScorpio
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Da Dom
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#85 - 2013-01-21 14:14:21 UTC
Point it at a system in the Jove Empire and tell me how long it takes you to slowboat your way there

Because Far-que... That's why.
Inzax
#86 - 2013-01-21 15:43:19 UTC
...gets out sextant...

God I thought I was done with this thing.
Lucas Raholan
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
#87 - 2013-01-21 15:53:59 UTC
Awesome....now all we need is to be able to overlay stats like this.

Looks really good CCP well done, if I could afford to go to fanfest I would buy you all a drink

Shitposts so bad CONCORD gave me a 50 billion ISK bounty
Esrevid Nekkeg
Justified and Ancient
#88 - 2013-01-21 15:59:20 UTC
CCP FoxFour wrote:
Awesome! Drawing auto-pilot route in the stars is really cool.

Also, HELL YES to having access to the auto-pilot settings outside the map. :D
Wow man, just wow! Terrific! Way to go! Oh yes.....Big smile

Here I used to have a sig of our old Camper in space. Now it is disregarded as being the wrong format. Looking out the window I see one thing: Nothing wrong with the format of our Camper! Silly CCP......
CCP RubberBAND
CCP Engineering Corp
#89 - 2013-01-21 16:34:47 UTC
Nevyn Auscent wrote:
And this HASN'T been Dev blogged...... I'm in awe.


The first draft of the Dev Blog was actually finished today by CCP Optimal. It might take a few days for it to get to you guys, but we are on it.

This is part of the new Info Panels which can be tried on Singularity. The route in space is courtesy of CCP Mannapi though Game of Drones implemented his work. While it's predominantly a visual representation of the route now, who knows what possibilities it could provide in the future?

Feel free to poke me on: Twitter
CCP Arrow
C C P
C C P Alliance
#90 - 2013-01-21 16:34:57 UTC
Great to see you guys like this Big smile

Try this out: Be at the outgate in your current system and center the camera on it. Then move the camera so that the system which you will be jumping to next is right outside the gate on the screen. Now jump. Watch how your jump line goes to the system with the first plot line going from it.

CCP Arrow   |   Director of User Experience   |   EVE Online   |   @CCP_Arrow
Natsett Amuinn
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#91 - 2013-01-21 16:50:29 UTC
Could someone explain the point of this?

It looks "pretty" but I'm having a hard time understanding the point of spending time to code that as appposed to any number of things that would actually be usefull in EVE.

Or is this where we are in EVE's life?
Getting excited over stuff that has zero useful fucntionality in the game.
Sentient Blade
Crisis Atmosphere
Coalition of the Unfortunate
#92 - 2013-01-21 16:54:42 UTC
Natsett Amuinn wrote:
Could someone explain the point of this?

It looks "pretty" but I'm having a hard time understanding the point of spending time to code that as appposed to any number of things that would actually be usefull in EVE.

Or is this where we are in EVE's life?
Getting excited over stuff that has zero useful fucntionality in the game.


You're complaining about a bit of visual polish on a 3D game which could be functionally represented by a spreadsheet?

You're trolling.
Natsett Amuinn
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#93 - 2013-01-21 17:43:36 UTC  |  Edited by: Natsett Amuinn
Sentient Blade wrote:
Natsett Amuinn wrote:
Could someone explain the point of this?

It looks "pretty" but I'm having a hard time understanding the point of spending time to code that as appposed to any number of things that would actually be usefull in EVE.

Or is this where we are in EVE's life?
Getting excited over stuff that has zero useful fucntionality in the game.


You're complaining about a bit of visual polish on a 3D game which could be functionally represented by a spreadsheet?

You're trolling.

Not all.

I'm complaining that this PARTICULAR visual polish has no functional use. It's not same as improving missile effects, turret effects, the way nebula are viewed.

I'm complaning that I'd rather see functional things getting coded as apposed to useless little visual features that have zero impact on the game as a whole.


If disagreeing with you make sme a troll, then whats calling someone a troll that disgrees with you, make you?
Sentient Blade
Crisis Atmosphere
Coalition of the Unfortunate
#94 - 2013-01-21 18:00:30 UTC
Natsett Amuinn wrote:
I'm complaining that this PARTICULAR visual polish has no functional use. It's not same as improving missile effects, turret effects, the way nebula are viewed.


It's funny you mention the nebula, because the background is one of those things which too is visual fluff and has little if any functional use from an in-game standpoint.

It's all about creating depth of feel, making the stars on the horizon actually appear to have meaning and context. You can actually see where you're going, rather than the dots in the sky just being some random part of a bitmap skybox.

Ship trails are another thing along the same lines, functionally they have very very little purpose, but they improve the feel of the game. The same could be said of all the visuals in game, we are after all simply dealing with spherical bounding boxes, right?

It's just a matter of depth and context.

It's also the kinda thing that a dev would probably knock-up over a lunch break.
Bagrat Skalski
Koinuun Kotei
#95 - 2013-01-21 18:03:24 UTC
Quote:
Could someone explain the point of this?


You could draw some things on the sky. Connect the dots style.

Custom ship skins, character creator style "repaint". Bring it!
Montevius Williams
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#96 - 2013-01-21 18:13:40 UTC
From a gameplay persepctive, this is useless.

From a scifi immersion persecption, this is priceless.

"The American Government indoctrination system known as public education has been relentlessly churning out socialists for over 20 years". - TravisWB
Montevius Williams
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#97 - 2013-01-21 18:16:07 UTC
Natsett Amuinn wrote:
Sentient Blade wrote:
Natsett Amuinn wrote:
Could someone explain the point of this?

It looks "pretty" but I'm having a hard time understanding the point of spending time to code that as appposed to any number of things that would actually be usefull in EVE.

Or is this where we are in EVE's life?
Getting excited over stuff that has zero useful fucntionality in the game.


You're complaining about a bit of visual polish on a 3D game which could be functionally represented by a spreadsheet?

You're trolling.

Not all.

I'm complaining that this PARTICULAR visual polish has no functional use. It's not same as improving missile effects, turret effects, the way nebula are viewed.

I'm complaning that I'd rather see functional things getting coded as apposed to useless little visual features that have zero impact on the game as a whole.


If disagreeing with you make sme a troll, then whats calling someone a troll that disgrees with you, make you?


This adds immersion to the game. Immersion is a huge part of a MMORPG. HUGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"The American Government indoctrination system known as public education has been relentlessly churning out socialists for over 20 years". - TravisWB
Lors Dornick
Kallisti Industries
#98 - 2013-01-21 18:19:31 UTC
Bagrat Skalski wrote:
Quote:
Could someone explain the point of this?


You could draw some things on the sky. Connect the dots style.


Hmm, I wonder what the TTP will be on this feature ...

CCP Greyscale: As to starbases, we agree it's pretty terrible, but we don't want to delay the entire release just for this one factor.
Aprudena Gist
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#99 - 2013-01-21 18:20:45 UTC
why do they continue to waste development time on stupid useless **** like this
Ila Gant
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#100 - 2013-01-21 18:35:38 UTC
Montevius Williams wrote:

This adds immersion to the game. Immersion is a huge part of a MMORPG. HUGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Like over 9000!

This is a cool little feature extending from the anchored context menu under the current location. This is a nice continuation to the visual and usability overhaul the game has needed for quite a while. Far from useless, it will reduce confusion for new players, while giving a bit of shiny to long-time players.

Further, it works better with a player's spatial relations, something the current map just doesn't do.

Now if we can just banish the five deep roll-over info pop-ups in the star map with something a bit more deliberate... (I'm talking about browsing station services in a particular star system, for example.)