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Where are the windows on the SOE ships?
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Photon Ceray
Palmyra Universal Enterprise
#1 - 2013-11-02 03:05:21 UTC
Really, how do people inside see the outside or just gaze at the stars? even the cockpit has no windows!

The ships are gorgeous but without windows they just look wrong!

All the ships in eve have windows, every race, every ship small or big or pirate, they all have an appropriate amount of windows.

Seriously, how can you make a spaceship without any windows? imagine a car without windows, just full metal all around!

Just slap some blue/white windows on the SOE ships, doesn't have to be too many, just a bit to make a cockpit and make look lively.
Bienator II
madmen of the skies
#2 - 2013-11-02 05:04:57 UTC
they run on linux

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Kora Ethereal
Ethereal Beings
#3 - 2013-11-02 06:00:11 UTC
Bienator II wrote:
they run on linux


I can sleep now, having laughed very hard today.
Reiisha
#4 - 2013-11-02 09:01:35 UTC
There are windows, just not many of them. Maybe the ship isn't made for stargazing?

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DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2013-11-02 20:10:45 UTC
No need for windows due to the electronics plugged into your clone. Not to mention looking out through a window while in your pod would be like driving your car at night in the rain without any windshield wipers on it.


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Photon Ceray
Palmyra Universal Enterprise
#6 - 2013-11-02 20:58:16 UTC
there are no windows on the ships, just a couple of lights!

I am not writing this for RP, the ships just look wrong and immersion breaking without windows.

heck even cargo air planes of today have a few windows here and there.
Sirinda
Ekchuah's Shrine Comporium
#7 - 2013-11-02 21:02:45 UTC
Bienator II wrote:
they run on linux


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Krops Vont
#8 - 2013-11-02 21:29:34 UTC
Remember they cloak most of the time so they cant have someone looking inside the window to see them in the shower ;)
That or it works like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHs08QEjFrw

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Lysanne Reqetta
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2013-11-02 21:56:32 UTC
Windows are a structural weakness.

Blatant alt posting? In my EVE? It's more likely than you think.

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CMD Ishikawa
New Eden Public Security Section 9
#10 - 2013-11-03 01:30:55 UTC
Come on guys, thousands of years in the future, some advanced smartwalls that can become transparent if someone wants it.

Let's have some imagination.
Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
#11 - 2013-11-03 02:56:42 UTC
Lysanne Reqetta wrote:
Windows are a structural weakness.


At least we know they won't detect us so easily while in stealth mode.

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Serge SC
The Valhalla Project
#12 - 2013-11-03 03:26:28 UTC
Reiisha wrote:
There are windows, just not many of them. Maybe the ship isn't made for stargazing?

John Rourke would not get one in that case. (Extra points if you remember the quote)

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Bienator II
madmen of the skies
#13 - 2013-11-03 05:31:12 UTC
webcams, lots of them

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Sarodh
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#14 - 2013-11-03 10:01:04 UTC
Lysanne Reqetta wrote:
Windows are a structural weakness.

I clicked on this thread expecting to see this quote.

Wasn't disappointed.
Photon Ceray
Palmyra Universal Enterprise
#15 - 2013-11-03 10:40:55 UTC
Wth did I just run into a herd of RPers?
Nevyn Auscent
Broke Sauce
#16 - 2013-11-03 11:35:08 UTC
All those Camera drones which are how we actually see into space. + ship sensors. It's not like Capsuleers can actually get out & walk around and these ships appear designed pretty much for capsuleers.
Jason Itiner
Harmless People
#17 - 2013-11-03 18:44:15 UTC
Lysanne Reqetta wrote:
Windows are a structural weakness.


YES, thank you!

Anyway, many ships lack windows, notably the Amarr ones. Very easily explained, for the above reason, the designers decided to go with plenoptic cameras on the hull and on tiny cam drones, which stream the data back to autostereoscopic displays (most likely lenticular arrays) on the inside of the ship, simulating windows. Smile
Photon Ceray
Palmyra Universal Enterprise
#18 - 2013-11-04 02:49:59 UTC
what's up with all the RP here?

In any case, all the ships in eve have windows, sisters ships should be no different.
Bebeth Jasmone
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#19 - 2013-11-04 09:38:03 UTC
I like that you don't have to much spacular on in that material shader but how about toss some env mapping
on thouse soe ships ? Big smile
Egil Musana
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#20 - 2013-11-04 13:00:40 UTC
Lysanne Reqetta wrote:
Windows are a structural weakness.


Hilarious!

But it is actually true...

Considering the warp system in-game is based upon manipulating space into a bubble around the ship, An alcubierre drive which we are actually try to do in real life, you have to deal with space debris at relativistic speeds.

Windows would basically shatter when an unlucky piece of debris the size of a bottle cap smashes in, and a ship going at speeds past c... will be screwed over. I assume the shields do a majority of mitigating smaller objects but when those go down, your armor is there, which probably shouldn't have windows.
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