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UFOs in mah EVE?
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Barbelo Valentinian
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2011-10-06 17:58:16 UTC
Anyone else noticed these little flitting sparks of light that swoop around and change direction? Never saw them before Incarna. UFOs? Signs of the End of Times?
Aesiron
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#2 - 2011-10-06 18:01:58 UTC
Barbelo Valentinian wrote:
Anyone else noticed these little flitting sparks of light that swoop around and change direction? Never saw them before Incarna. UFOs? Signs of the End of Times?


Nope, but what has this got to do with Ships and Modules?
Otto Weston
Pod Goo Extraction Agency
#3 - 2011-10-06 18:04:46 UTC
I've seen them b4 incarna... always thought them to be space dust etc. debris
Everything's Air Droppable at least once.
Kilrayn
Caldari Provisions
#4 - 2011-10-06 19:05:01 UTC
Barbelo Valentinian wrote:
Anyone else noticed these little flitting sparks of light that swoop around and change direction? Never saw them before Incarna. UFOs? Signs of the End of Times?

Your drugs, you can share please?

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drinking12many
Nine Inch Ninja Corp
#5 - 2011-10-06 19:20:30 UTC
nah ive seen em to, I always thought it was kinds of strange. I thought they were other ships in warp until I was in a system with 0 in local... unless its like npcs warping... got me
Wylee Coyote
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#6 - 2011-10-06 19:21:16 UTC  |  Edited by: Wylee Coyote
Bormegil
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#7 - 2011-10-06 19:37:41 UTC
I have seen them.

I always figured that they were someone's ill-advised attempt to add "shooting stars" into outer space for a more immersing "atmosphere".

Pun entirely intended.
Barbelo Valentinian
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2011-10-06 19:42:04 UTC
Yeah, these are very like the "shooting stars" which have been around since forever, but it's as if they're like "closer" shooting stars that change direction.

Maybe that's just what they are, but I never noticed them before Incarna, only the "shooting stars" in the distance that occasionally whizz by in mission instances, etc.
Kilrayn
Caldari Provisions
#9 - 2011-10-06 20:14:43 UTC
Perhaps you're seeing the beacon (it does glow) as you move your camera around. I'll notice it occasionally when mission running.

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Joatmo
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#10 - 2011-10-07 02:35:37 UTC
Took me a while to figure this one out.. It's just those little space dust specs you see all over, just really close to the camera view. To explain them changing direction, it's actually just your ship changing direction and your camera following
Angry Onions
League of Angered Gentlemen
#11 - 2011-10-07 03:19:58 UTC
I've noticed specs of stuff around my ship every great now and then.... Never paid much attention to them. Figured it was space dust, now you say tiny green men are trying to abduct me?
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Barbelo Valentinian
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#12 - 2011-10-07 10:46:53 UTC
Joatmo wrote:
Took me a while to figure this one out.. It's just those little space dust specs you see all over, just really close to the camera view. To explain them changing direction, it's actually just your ship changing direction and your camera following


Yeah I think it's this, but I've figured out the change of direction thing - it's actually just lag, you know the kind of jerking around things do sometimes when it's laggy, but in this case the way it's happening on a "distant" object that happens to be "close up", it's making it look like a UFO sharply changing direction.

Mystery solved! Can we have a dev confirmation please? Lol
Satav
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#13 - 2011-10-07 20:53:25 UTC
*whistles the X-Files tune*
Obsidian Dagger
Nitrus Nine
#14 - 2011-10-08 10:12:01 UTC
I used to think they were other ships passing in warp, but they always seem too close to the camera for that. My current theory is just 'Spacey stuff'.
They are part of the engine, but feck knows why, they just look silly drifting past. Unless they ARE supposed to be other ships in warp or something, just not actual ones.

I've been seeing them since 2008ish.
Gizan
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#15 - 2011-10-08 15:18:05 UTC
been in game since the "shiny" update.(late 07 early 08)