EVE General Discussion

The mechanics for a grander scale are already in place. I use them when doing fraps or taking screenshots. The issue is that they cannot be set in a permanent mode. Current location I am at, I cannot open the photobucket to grab the links of screenies I have taken, but I know what you mean.

What I am refering to, try as follows. There are advanced camera controls in the option menu, want to turn them on I believe. Then what you can do in combat or whatever is change the level of zoom and reduction of size of things based on distance, or the level of reduction you get of the background objects.

Advanced camera controls overview

Right button hold: We all know that this is your pitch and pivot of camera

Right held then left button, allows zoom by moving mouse.

Ctrl+right button: I cannot remember top of head actually. I use these controls so often...

THE BIG ONE

Ctrl+right held then press hold left button.

I hope that is right, again I just do these controls from habit since I have been using them so long. Sliding mouse left and right affects "depth" is the best way to describe it. Slight adjustments to this makes battles feel bigger first off since surrounding ships feel more to your size and closer. If you are a frigate, battleships are huge and capitals are... well head to luminaire and try it out. I do it quite frequently for my screenshots since it makes ships and battles feel so much grander. Speed feels faster. Later if this thread is still front page, I will grab some of them and link for example.

Disadvantage: Camera resets affect this.

CCP: Can we get it so this is in the esc menu as a fixed slider so it doesn't keep undoing while maintaniing the current on the fly ability to set? It really does make eve awesome, it changes the whole feel of the game immensely! In fact, I might later put a new thread in the Features and Idea to suggest this.

For those that cannot wait, head to "photobucket.com" and search user "kwkiller". There I have an eve online album where I put the best of my screenies for sharing. Just reached 200. The best to show perspective is look of a recent one with a damnation flying amongst a hellcat fleet. Green nebula background really shows it off! Another good one is a rokh firing taken during a mass test. They show off the best this effect.

Humans may not be able to understand the size of things like stars, but the Myrmidon? The myrmidon is bigger than you in a very similar ratio to the size you are larger than a house spider.

One issue there is with is large scale is detail It would be nice to get that first person right against the model type of scale, but the texture mess would be ugly in the end.

You could just right click and show info on your ship then click the picutre of the ship... that will tell you exactly how big it is. I.e. the drake is 526 meters.

Or watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPeb547pis0

Everything in eve needs rescalign basically, planets and stars are too small, stations too, pretty much everything is too small. If you can put two battleships into a carrier then carriers should be FAR bigger than they currently are too. Loads of scales are way out in game.

Totally agree!

Agree

One way you could tell the size of our ship is if you actualy see crew members running around behind those lit up portholes most ships have. I always thought they are portholes, they might be something else.... Nothing fancy just a few pixels of vague humanoid forms blocking out the light coming out of the port holes for a few milliseconds

A Machariel is nearly the same length and width as a Thanatos, but a Thanatos has 10x the mass.

Yes, we are all aware ship scaling is messed up, no it won't be a priority since it changes nothing in gameplay.

It should be a priority as EVE IS REAL!