EVE General Discussion

Sure thing - we got all those things you've mentioned during last year of focused FiS development. Frankly, I've started to believe Miila is correct about EVE is in the end of life cycle according to CCP and company is trying to get away from this game while distracting subscribers with missile smoke and ship trails.

Meanwhile I've seen message somewhere in the thread about blog post related to captain quarters planned on 29th - where is it?

Like the fact that I can have the long gone hair of my younger days.

Mind you, my hair was about twice as long as that in my portrait.

That alone makes the CC good to me.

The latest patch has made me a damn handsome man...

Wow, great portraits ... I think my favorite there is Isis Dea. There is just some very subtle sadness in the eyes that just draws me in

Pot calling Kettle black.


Indahmawar Fazmarai has created some very good looks for the Avatar and is not afraid to experiment with the Character Creator.

Off topic posts removed. Please stay on topic and polite, thank you.

On some other note: I like the distribution of light/darkness and the overall gravity of luZk on EVE-Portraits. The creativity and skills of you, our players, never ceases to amaze me.

The CC is without a doubt great and if we could get all the stuff that are just laying in the db, unable for us at this moment, pretty please, it would be even greater.

One thing though, the shadows changes from the portrait creator to the actual portrait. Making, as an example, my eyes visible in its finished state but hidden in shadow in the creator. A smaller annoyance, but as log as you don't take a closer look you don't notice it.

And last, thanks for giving back the hair color options and expanding the skin colors. Love you Devs!

Almost all of the portraits in the Gallery on EVE Portraits have actually been submitted to me by the players themselves, although there are still quite a few that I kindly asked if they minded me putting theirs up.

As much as I love the portraits in EVE and the outstanding character creator, I do have some issues. First, one of the number one things I noticed almost immediately when I started gathering portraits, is the almost total lack of bright colours in them. Black, brown, beige and blue are quite abundant (the 4-b's), however red, yellow, orange, purple, white, pink and green are scarce (or even non-existant). I think it may be a combination of what is offered in the creation process (and the outfit colour schemes in the NeX store), as well as trending patterns which players either consciously or unconsciously follow. Purple is one of my favourite colours, and unfortunately it's hardly seen in the portraits. Nice bright yellows are also sadly absent.

The second issue I have with the character creation process, is the character figure constantly moving around back and forth when trying to adjust the facial features. I find it extremely annoying and frustrating. Also, the design spinning in the background slows down my computer significantly, leading to a very long wait while it updates (Yes, I do realize that's also my fault as I need a new faster computer). I don't know if anyone else has these issues or if it's just me, but I'm guessing I'm not alone.

Third, with the introduction of the latest patch, portraits are now captured in-game as 1024x1024 instead of the previous 512x512. Right away, I wanted to update all of the portraits in the Gallery on EVE Portraits to this bigger size, but I noticed that the sampling quality was not improved with the new patch, and the portraits are actually degraded. You can see this by looking at an example... One of my favourite portraits on the website, Raidjinn (the 2nd place winner of the 1st Round). If you look at the scarring on his face in 1024 size, the quality is just not the same as it is with the smaller 512 size, and it actually looks worse when it shouldn't. So I unhappily decided to stick with the 512x512 for the website, when I really wanted to take advantage of the new size being offered. Now, the only way to still get the smaller size is from the profiles on EVE Gate, and I hope that does not change, at least until this problem can be fixed. Thoughts anyone?

I needed to edit this post and add a note of positivity that despite these things, I still very much love the portraits players are making, and the character creator itself. CCP as well as the artists/designers working so hard on it have done an absolutely fantastic job!

Thanks very much everyone for your continued support for my efforts, it's totally appreciated. Oh, and BTW, Round 5 of the portrait contest starts July 9 and I'm now accepting entries!

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Ken. Barbie's boyfriend is Ken. Kaneš is a Hittite village in modern Turkey.

But on topic: I agree, CCP did a fabolous job with the character creator! Now I am just waiting for school uniforms (コスプレ!!!) and some of the fashion which was available in the old character creator! (≧∇≦)/

Vive le Khanid sexiness!

I really do like the character creator, however I have a real mans beard and could not recreate it, so I could not make my character look like me. I could not make him as fat as me IRL, nor could I make his arms as muscular. I also could not make him look like my old avatar, which was heartbreaking to me.

However, it is still the most realistic avatar creator I have ever seen, used, or heard about, and any Eve Avatar looks better than any other games avatar by a long shot. Anyone who argues that clearly has bitter vet syndrome.

Kudos on a job well done.