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Petition: REMOVE MISSION CLOUDS or On/Off

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Lili Lu
#41 - 2012-05-12 22:32:32 UTC
Finally, a critical mass of people willing to complain about these. I've hated them for years. The only cloud in missions that I liked was the sickly green of the last recon mission.

Seriously, whoever designed these things is a sadist. Sometimes they are painful to look at. And, yes we know a sun is bright but as long as we are flying spacehips with underwater physics why can't we have those suns toned down a bit as well. Why we have to have our retinas burned out to play a computer space game is beyond reason.
Istvaan Shogaatsu
Guiding Hand Social Club
#42 - 2012-05-12 22:39:39 UTC
Foolish gnomes. You have not yet realized the true purpose of the gas cloud.

Allow Ashley Sky to enlighten you.
ugh zug
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#43 - 2012-05-12 22:41:46 UTC
/signed

Want me to shut up? Remove content from my post,1B. Remove my content from a thread I have started 2B.
Imortal valkyrie
The Logistics Of Tax Evasion
#44 - 2012-05-12 22:44:15 UTC
Epic plus 1, apart from lagging some of the damn things nearly blind you, it's like having a second sun in system.

Raevyn Enderas > wasn't it Jerky Boys where they were talking about blasting someone in the ass with a vasoline potato?
Nicolo da'Vicenza
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#45 - 2012-05-12 22:54:21 UTC
+1 death to mission clouds
Sang-in Tiers
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#46 - 2012-05-12 22:56:08 UTC
+1
Buzzmong
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#47 - 2012-05-12 22:56:46 UTC
Yes. Oh god yes.

I've noticed it when doing high-sec exploration. Some sites have this big off-white/yellow cloud that utterly hammers the FPS while being exceedingly bright.

I think these clouds offer a higher performance hit than Incarna did when it launched.
Nikodiemus
Ganja Clade
Shadow Cartel
#48 - 2012-05-12 23:52:33 UTC
FluffyDice wrote:
I'd rather be able to turn the sun off.


James Bond villains UNITE!!
Imortal valkyrie
The Logistics Of Tax Evasion
#49 - 2012-05-13 05:44:06 UTC
Nikodiemus wrote:
FluffyDice wrote:
I'd rather be able to turn the sun off.


James Bond villains UNITE!!


What about Dr evil, can't leave the poor guy out.

Raevyn Enderas > wasn't it Jerky Boys where they were talking about blasting someone in the ass with a vasoline potato?
Drunken Bum
#50 - 2012-05-13 06:35:21 UTC
Please get rid of the ridiculously bright space clouds. I dont mission much but they're in anomolies and are annoying as **** when encountered. Absolutely useless and forces you to zoom out, or turn away from them.

After the patch we're giving the market some gentle supply restriction, like tying one wrist to the bedpost loosely with soft silk rope. Just enough to make things a bit more exciting for the market, not enough to make a safeword necessary.  -Fozzie
Aurelius Valentius
Valentius Corporation
Valentius Corporation Alliance
#51 - 2012-05-13 21:12:02 UTC
*bump* - we have 50 likes and 3 pages, can we get a few more? how about a Dev commentary? lets hope.
Malak Dawnfire
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#52 - 2012-05-13 21:21:51 UTC
I agree with the toggle for clouds but also as a tip, disabling "shadows" completely, not just turning it on low seemed to give me a decent boost around those areas. Check it out.
Jiska Ensa
Estrale Frontiers
#53 - 2012-05-13 21:24:16 UTC
+1 remove them, give a toggle button, or ideally optimize them so this isn't an issue for anyone. Oruze Constructs in C3 wormholes are unplayable for me at less than max zoom, and the last thing you need in a wormhole is 1 FPS when you're frantically hitting d-scan every 5 seconds because you are ratting even though you're pretty sure you saw a buzzard earlier...

(ok so that was a little specific, but fix the damned clouds)
De Veresse
One Horse Trading
#54 - 2012-05-13 21:34:55 UTC
+1, a pox on all mission clouds.
Anya Ohaya
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#55 - 2012-05-13 23:43:59 UTC
If they make flashy reds lag out when landing in exploration sites, giving me enough time to warp away, then I'm all for them :-)
Abel Merkabah
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#56 - 2012-05-14 01:29:37 UTC
Jayrendo Karr wrote:
I would like to remove the bright clouds, the dark ones are generally okey, but the bright ones make my screen white with red blinking symbols.


This. +1

James315 for CSM 8!
Aurelius Valentius
Valentius Corporation
Valentius Corporation Alliance
#57 - 2012-05-14 03:24:33 UTC
Malak Dawnfire wrote:
I agree with the toggle for clouds but also as a tip, disabling "shadows" completely, not just turning it on low seemed to give me a decent boost around those areas. Check it out.


I have my shadows already to disabled, that was as soon as they went to the new versions - I took a huge hit on the last change out - oddly not from V3 but something that came in on a mini-patch later... like .3 update... at that point I had to turn them off, but for the first two updates to crucible they looks really good on my machine, I am at a loss what is up with EVE and the graphics at this point...

AA off, Shadows off, Post, off, HDL off, everything off... and then I dropped everything from high to medium... which makes some diffierence but not much and sometimes it is still just as bad with the FPS as on high... or with some item turned back on.

Over all though... the clouds are just horrible looking, they rip alot on the models, they mess up the effects and they don't add anything to the game, it's not like you can hide in one, or they have some game advantage (mutara nebula... Z-minus 10K...) and please CCP do not add that in, can I only image how that would work? need a Mainframe to run the client at that point.

I think simple is best sometimes in game design and roll-out...

and with EVE so much is going on with the game that does do things, and they should be polished, and the "trash" extra fluffer stuff should really either be removed or on/off at the least (imho).
Malice Redeemer
Kenshin.
Fraternity.
#58 - 2012-05-14 03:39:53 UTC
They are fine on my rig with max settings, maybe its time for upgrades people.

to op, nice 2nd post telling people how to think? You know it would take dev time to fix this for you, and alot of us just don't care.
Malak Dawnfire
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#59 - 2012-05-14 04:14:23 UTC
Malice Redeemer wrote:
They are fine on my rig with max settings, maybe its time for upgrades people.

to op, nice 2nd post telling people how to think? You know it would take dev time to fix this for you, and alot of us just don't care.


I'm not exactly sure how long a simple toggle for clouds would take CCP but I can't imagine too long and if it improves the quality of life for even one person with lower end hardware, why not give it a shot?
Nicolo da'Vicenza
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#60 - 2012-05-14 04:18:14 UTC
Malice Redeemer wrote:
They are fine on my rig with max settings, maybe its time for upgrades people.

yeah okay nerdlinger, some of us actually go outdoors once in a while where we see plenty of clouds already. We don't need to spend money to see them.