Player Features and Ideas Discussion

It is about that time again when I feel the need to make a post I have been making occasionally since 2003.

Recently the devs have gone and made a bunch of new turret models for ships, which are awesome. I especially like the 150mm Autocannon which totally looks like a retro Dalek gun.

And still they did not take the time to create missile launcher models.

I have been playing on sisi for the first time in forever with the new ships on there and, remembering seeing the concept art for the Naga on the Dev Blog, notice the original player art from the competition shows the Naga with missile launcher models on it rather than turrets. For a moment we can all dream that we will have this in EVE eventually...

I even recall seeing something from the Fanfest vids on Youtube where the question was asked about it in relation to the new turrets being shown that day and the general gist of it was that they were in development, though they would not see the expansion after the FF when the other turrets were going to be introduced.

Any idea on when this will finally be implemented in EVE? I fit a Naga on sisi with torp launchers and more than on any other ship in EVE it looks kind of ridiculous since the hardpoint locations on the Naga are so pronounced on the model and they are physically empty.

Please CCP, spend a little time on this. So many expansions have gone by and I fully expect the Winter 2011 expansion to pass without this too. And so many chances with so many changes where it would have made an idea platform to develop something while the art team had their pens inked and ready for new shiny content. On top of all the other graphical improvements I have seen come over the 8+ years of play which show what I think to be unmatched talent, the way missiles are handled in EVE just looks amateur.

I think you misread it here. I did not say they are amateurs I said it looks amateur. There is a subtle difference. Does my post look like a rant? Because I doubt it does.

I am being honest and constructive here and the best honesty is to show where there are fundamental failings. On top of all the graphical work CCP are doing, the fact is that having missile sprites just emerge from any point on the ship originating on the centre point of the ship model does look like amateur coding in comparison. There are much worse ways people could put it but it does not change that simple fact that a game with so many good effects has this one weapon system where nothing has been done to improve it at all.

If you do not agree with me that the missile system has a problem because I call the way it looks being amateur then fair enough. If you do agree it needs looking at then maybe post something more relevant in support instead of just trolling.

the problem is with displaying all the missiles individual flight paths from their launchers to the targets, much more processor intensive than a single blip of light that appears above your ship and moves off towards the target. Yeah they could make some better looking static models of the launchers, but nothing like they have done for turrets