Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I agree. I have not personally experienced any motion sickness, but I find the warp shaking effect very jarring and physically disorienting (not in-game disorienting). Different people will be affected in different ways, and so I think it is important to always have backup solutions. I might not be able to play if not for the ability to turn the warp shake effect off.

Absolutely wrong, CCP is very willing to work with people who have actual disabilities. What they don't like are people who can deal with it and don't want to because they are selfish sissies who want the rest of the world to bend over backward for their own comfort. That's what HTFU is all about.

I'm getting some serious motion sickness off the new stargate and jump bridge animations due to the forced camera rotation and warp tunnel effects. It's already to the point where I hate to move systems due to dealing with the animation without closing my eyes or something stupid. There needs to be a way for people to turn off the animation as I also think it is very distracting when moving around.

I want an option to turn it off too. I don't get motion sickness, but I get nostalgia and I become severely agitated when options are taken away from me. Like the jukebox.

Well I've got to go back to the padded room now. My meds are wearing off...

I also support this. I understand there is no more old system, but i would really like an option to turn it off, or fade it away, anything.

I'm not prone to motion sickness myself, the worst I ever feel is a sharply sinking/dropping feeling in my bladder when falling long distances in some first-person games, but I support this. At the very least I'd like to see the lockout on camera controls removed. Not being able to pan the camera up until the last minute is annoying, and potentially dangerous, and if you could pan the camera in the "jump tube" some people might be able to diminish if not eliminate their issues with it.

I agree with you OP.

It's stupid and completely unnecessary. Same thing with wormholes. When you select and jump through it, the game zooms in on the wormhole for a while, and when you're through it zooms out again. Completely arbitrary and unnecessary. It looks ugly as well, so I just don't see any justification for this.

Stupid...

The Tracking Camera appears with Odyssey. Before there was none. I believe there are many things like this in EVE Online which are totally unnecessary and disturb, not help, a fluid gameplay. Only my opinion.

There are many ways to solve such problems with less unsteady and dramatical effects.

E.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8F2FyiNbXk .

Aspecially if you travel long routes and you do not want to use the autopilot you stare a long time on the screen. I tell what I saw:

Traveling from the station to the gate (jump on top). The ship quivers while entering and leaving warp travel. Than jumping. The camera anligned to the gate in a very aggressive and fast swing and in the same second you move fast through this tunnel flash light effect. On the other side you see this distortion effect. After it the camera alignes to the gate. You choose your jump gate to jump and the camera alignes again. And this whole sequence for many systems. I cannot believe that there are people who do not get headache from this after a while.

Actually the Tracking Camera was in before Odyssey...it came with Retribution.

There are obvious frame rate spikes with the new jumping effect (and also undocking). My PC is no slouch but turn on the frame rate monitor with ctrl+F and see if the game is significantly dropping frames during the animation. Low frame rates in games can make anyone get headaches or slight motion sickness. This is heightened by the fast animation through a tunnel. When a person gets motion sickness while driving a car, there are symptoms such as if there are rows of trees on either side of the row, it will start to look like a slide show. I'm pretty sure this has a relation to low frame rates in games visibly simulate motion sickness, and can cause it by this affect. Another note is the ear is in tune with what the eye sees. The sound effects for traveling through the jump gates is smooth while the visuals are not. It must be mentioned that no one has said anything about undocking. The first couple seconds of undocking I notice frames dropping as well. I'm not a game designer so I don't know what is causing this or how to improve it but this is surely one of the reasons why people are getting headaches/nausea.

I for one love the automatic camera and jump animation. It definitely seems like getting to the next system is quicker. I find myself going a few jumps and before I realize it I'm at the destination. Also having the automatic camera makes it easy for me to look at things in space that are on my overview by clicking them, instead of waving around the mouse trying to find stuff. However I understand why some people are getting motion sickness. On my older machine I tried running 2 clients across 2 1080p monitors which was rendering similar to 4 full-screen clients at the same time. It didn't pan out the way I wanted because going through warp the frame rate was not smooth and caused me to feel sick. This is similar to what the new jump animation does.

I'm happy with the changes and additions but it must be noted the frame rate drop during undocking and jumping sequences.

My specs are i7-2600 @ 3.4GHz 8 GB DDR3 RAM 180GB SSD NVidia GTX 650 Ti BOOST SuperClocked

The frame rate stutters several times through jump tunnels and also noticeable after undocking. Main reason why some people don't notice the frame rate drop is because of the high speed of the animation in the tunnel. Once you notice it's very obvious.