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Victoria Ramsay
Doomheim
#1 - 2015-02-05 04:43:54 UTC
Seems like a fairly obvious thing, but I'm not sure easy to implement this would be. Not sure how others feel about this but I often find that the scale of EVE (comparative sizes of ships, stations etc.) and the really cinematic view of some of the ships in eve get lose.

Part of the reason for that is because you spend the whole time zoomed out looking at brackets. I think a first person viewpoint would be extremely cool to have as an option, for example something you can turn on or off with a hotkey.

To be clear, I'm not suggesting for example that this perspective has a rendered cockpit or anything - but rather just a camera view fixed at the front of the ship looking forwards that cannot be zoomed in or out, nor rotated around (but perhaps with strafing viewpoint left or right by using right click + drag - which is already in place for the current camera system).
Lyra Gerie
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2015-02-05 05:59:06 UTC
This could be interesting if it is positioned right in front of the ships supposed cockpit but ultimately unnecessary. Despite that I know that camera controls are pretty easy to code. Maybe a beta feature on SiSi just to see how it goes over? I don't know this isn't really a needed or highly wanted feature among people so it's hard to say if even the day or two getting it to work on every ship would be worth the time considering what other things they could be working on.
Sha'Kor
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#3 - 2015-02-05 11:32:46 UTC
That's why CCP is working on Valkyrie
baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#4 - 2015-02-05 11:51:12 UTC
Why?
Jaysen Larrisen
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#5 - 2015-02-05 11:56:31 UTC  |  Edited by: Jaysen Larrisen
Just a thought but a chase view might be more use full given our ships relative size and it would be more handy for WASD flying.

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Alvatore DiMarco
Capricious Endeavours Ltd
#6 - 2015-02-05 15:52:46 UTC
I don't use it myself so I might be remembering it wrongly but have you tried Ctrl-F9 for "cinematic view" purposes?
Victoria Ramsay
Doomheim
#7 - 2015-02-05 20:21:05 UTC
Sha'Kor wrote:
That's why CCP is working on Valkyrie


Cool! A game made for their non-PC fanbase \o/
Lugh Crow-Slave
#8 - 2015-02-05 20:28:16 UTC
Eve is in first person.... except in CQ

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M1k3y Koontz
House of Musashi
Stay Feral
#9 - 2015-02-05 21:22:00 UTC
baltec1 wrote:
Why?

Why not?

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Nariya Kentaya
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#10 - 2015-02-05 22:37:55 UTC
M1k3y Koontz wrote:
baltec1 wrote:
Why?

Why not?

because then people will start bitching for things to be balanced around that view, because they dont want to zoom out and have actual situational awareness in combat, then the next thing you they start bitching for every twitchy FPS mechanic they can think of, and considering CCP is CCP, theyll cave in and destroy the game because those mechanics dont work on 1-second server ticks
Victoria Ramsay
Doomheim
#11 - 2015-02-06 03:23:39 UTC  |  Edited by: Victoria Ramsay
Nariya Kentaya wrote:
M1k3y Koontz wrote:
baltec1 wrote:
Why?

Why not?

because then people will start bitching for things to be balanced around that view, because they dont want to zoom out and have actual situational awareness in combat, then the next thing you they start bitching for every twitchy FPS mechanic they can think of, and considering CCP is CCP, theyll cave in and destroy the game because those mechanics dont work on 1-second server ticks


....are you for reals yo? People just make up reasons to bring ideas down. You totally just made this up.