Missions & Complexes

I'm a new player, started right after retribution came out. Overall I think it's a fantastic game. It really shows that it's been worked on for years. There are so many features it looks like a dozen game put into one. Everything feels like its been thoroughly thought out and carefully balanced.

But that only makes it all the more infuriating to have my framerate killed by these clouds which, according to the forums, have been a problem for ages.

I must admit I have a very old computer, but it runs everything else in the game just fine. I shouldn't have to buy a high end graphic card only because this small chunk of poorly written code.

Devs, you need to stop doing your QA on top of the line machines and realize this is a major issue. Get yourself a 8600GT, a deadspace that looks like the level designer was testing how many random ***** could be crammed in (including way too many clouds ofc), zoom all the way in and try to fly a speed tanking frigate among the debris with the frame (<- singular) per second you get. That's what you deserve for still not having an option to turn the clouds off.

Well, they could easily give us the easy solution for these graphical problems.
Give us option to disable drawing these objects (clouds, wh effects etc.)

I've actually had my computer shut down through overheating of the gpu when zoomed in at a cloud heavy location a few times.

Yes, it's not a top end build...quad core AMD cpu, 8gb ram and single hd 7770 but it runs rest of the game pretty well.

After the latest crash, I decided to actually go for it and do a new build (been saving some cash for a build and this actually pushed me to order the bits...waiting for em to be delivered).

The thing is, in difficult economic times, not everyone actually has cash to spend on upgrades... especially if the rest of the game runs fine.

It would be nice to have an option to turn clouds off if at all possible.

I don't understand why anyone would lobby against this.

If the code is efficient and organized, they could probably add the on/off option in a matter of hours, but for some reason I expect it to be a huge mess. If they want to keep on working on this game for the next decade, they should start by cleaning up. That would make any other modifications or new features around that code easier. I can't imagine stuff like say floating debris moving and colliding with each other while still struggling with the clouds.

Anyway it's up to them to decide if its worth it. I'm just saying that it annoys me to no end. And no, I'm not going to buy a new card because apparently everyone has this problem and buying a machine capable of running the rest of the game at 200+ fps so you don't notice the 80% fps drop in deadspace is just plain silly.

Started to play Eve before a few months, all in all this is a wonderfull game with thousands of options, but one option i do miss very hard !

Give us the option to deactivate those damn clouds, the game is far too wonderfull to reduce the graphic options because they are just everywhere.
And think about it! A object which is created to increase the good looking of the game, forces us to decrease the graphic options, what kind of a joke is this ?

Say yes to the "No Clouds" button

Good to see CCP STILL hasn't returned to this thread. Still as bad as ever, and yes, it is EVERY DAMN CLOUD. Filing a petition listing specific ones, lol.

That made me chuckle.

I found this electric cloud in Gravi site and it hurt my Retriever. I want it GONE

I see what you did there! LOL!

When CCP doesn't respond, I like to think they are off fighting evil. In another dimension!!

That comment from back in November may give people some hope, it looks like there will be something appearing about this at fanfest.

For the record im still against the on/off button