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Those are certainly not old nor refurbished wrecks, they are brand new, and I blew them up myself m'kay

These wrecks should NOT be a major FPS drain either. Both clouds and small debris should disappear on low settings and even on high they shouldn't be performing that bad.
If tonight's mass test has showed something different, we will have to fix that.

Also, the new wrecks are one of many parts of our EVE awesomesauce as you call it, it took one artist while another one used a bit of his time putting a light on the pod.

Small fixes and content updates are always a part of what we do on a 10 year old veteran like our EVE, that does certainly not preclude us on also using our time and manpower on other things simultaneously.

Obviously we don't want graphics glitches on our assets, especially our new or V3 updated content.

When you see graphics errors like this, please file a defect on them, we will get the defect and we will fix it.

I will have a look at the Gallente station with the obviously warped UV's, and the new techno pod (where I coincidentally agree with you on the somewhat over sized blinky).

About the bubbles, I will inquire about the warped poles as well.

Yes, absolutely!
It is much easier for us to close a defect as 'by design' or similar, than to fix a defect that we do not know exist.

When those caps explode is there an animation where the broken pieces slowly dirft into their position or will it be flash of light and everythings in place?

Shamelessy stealing a reddit idea: Have the Devs thought about increasing the (cap) wreck hp so they cant be shot away so easily and we enjoy them longer? And cap wrecks offer multiple succesful salvage cycles? So you grind down that wreck.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/1vt4vt/new_capital_wrecks_on_sisi/

edit: the wrecks look awesome gj devs

Ok they look awesome but...

What about that destruction model showed few years ago (i think it was Rokh model), and not so long ago as future thing (hurricane hull)?
I mean instant spawning model on death of another model in place is not something that was promised and not something good for game in 2014...

Is it still planed, if yes why waste time for those models? Eve really need something new and big in terms of astetics, artistic, graphic etc. something like those showed real time ship destructions, and collision model with AoE explosions etc.

This is true.

The dynamic ship damage was and is a thing we very much want to make happen, though not necessarily directly connected to the wrecks themselves.
Actually the 'holes' that a punched in the hulls of the new wrecks (a form of damage decal), is lifted from these ship damage experiments.

Having dynamic visual ship damage is a much more involved enterprise though, we will need to define and visually represent shield, armor and hull damage separately for that to work.

What happens when you run a stable armor tanking Rep. cycle at something like 3/4 to 1/2 armor, does holes, fires and hull breaches just abruptly appear and disappear between each cycle? that could get really old really fast.
Same goes for shield damage, while hull would usually be a very short glimpse of damage before you go belly up.

Not to say we are not still aiming towards having something like this visually represented, we would absolutely love that, but it is a separate and more complicated matter than wrecks themselves.

Do you have multiple ways on how the ship can explode? i.e. having multiple wrecks for the same type of hull. I was thinking on reaching 0% hull a random ship system goes critical and explodes(engine/reactor/ammo hold/etc.) and depending on that the hull breaks at different spots and creates different wrecks.

Shield damage effects could be similar to those from Star Trek. I mean either the shield is there or not but you could gradually decrease the intensity of the shield effect when its hit till its gone.

Armor could get scorch marks from laz0rs, and kind of impact craters from everything else. With running armour reps they would gradually disappear from the hull.

Structure damage is really inside of the ship so effects on the hull can be limited to having some actual holes in the armour through which you can see the ship inside and damage it.

Nope, as it stands now, there is one and only one unique wreck for each ship.

This is something that we are aware of, and is something we would like to build on and expand when resources are free for this.

The Naglfar doesn't look like a wreck

It just looks like some extra armor was removed to make it go faster

I have to admit that I was somewhat surprised about the Naglfar wreck, too. It's very intact still, compared to the other cap wrecks, which are completely obliterated. Considering the very weak superstructure of the Nag (it already has a hole in the middle and only tiny I-beams holding upper and lower part together, check the Mekhios Graveyard in Sarum Prime), it should at least break into two parts, in addition to the current chipping off of the weapon mounts.