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[PROPOSAL] Re-use Alliance Tournament Animations as CQ Content for Player Education
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Seismic Stan
Freebooted Junkworks
#1 - 2012-07-23 01:50:16 UTC  |  Edited by: Seismic Stan
Throughout the Alliance Tournament, basic game mechanics have been explained with animated pictograms. These did a fantastic job of demistifying things like optimal ranges and falloff, electronic warfare, orbiting and so on.

Further to discussions that took place in the New Player roundtable at Fanfest, these animations would be perfect for use on the Captain's Quarters screen as a library resource for players.

With the addition of relevant audio explanations you kill two birds with one stone - you greatly enhance the New Player Experience and simultaneously give Captains Quarters some unique content.

Personally, I'd like to hear some character being added to the audio accompanying the animations. Why go with the anodyne Aura voice when you could have a officious Caldari bombardier explaining missile mechanics or an unhinged Minmatar autocannon specialist describing the benefits (and dangers) of close-range combat? There's a lot of opportunity to weave a bit of colour into the experience to flesh out the universe for rookies.

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Tarunik Raqalth'Qui
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2012-07-23 02:40:02 UTC
Seismic Stan wrote:
Throughout the Alliance Tournament, basic game mechanics have been explained with animated pictograms. These did a fantastic job of demistifying things like optimal ranges and falloff, electronic warfare, orbiting and so on.

Further to discussions that took place in the New Player roundtable at Fanfest, these animations would be perfect for use on the Captain's Quarters screen as a library resource for players.

With the addition of relevant audio explanations you kill two birds with one stone - you greatly enhance the New Player Experience and simultaneously give Captains Quarters some unique content.

Personally, I'd like to hear some character being added to the audio accompanying the animations. Why go with the anodyne Aura voice when you could have a officious Caldari bombardier explaining missile mechanics or an unhinged Minmatar autocannon specialist explaining the benefits (and dangers) of close-range combat. There's a lot of opportunity to weave a bit of colour into the experience to flesh out the universe for rookies.

There's some real opportunity here for sure. Some of the animations are/were quite good, although I wouldn't let MBIII narrate!
None ofthe Above
#3 - 2012-07-23 15:15:12 UTC
Seismic Stan wrote:
Throughout the Alliance Tournament, basic game mechanics have been explained with animated pictograms. These did a fantastic job of demistifying things like optimal ranges and falloff, electronic warfare, orbiting and so on.

Further to discussions that took place in the New Player roundtable at Fanfest, these animations would be perfect for use on the Captain's Quarters screen as a library resource for players.

With the addition of relevant audio explanations you kill two birds with one stone - you greatly enhance the New Player Experience and simultaneously give Captains Quarters some unique content.

Personally, I'd like to hear some character being added to the audio accompanying the animations. Why go with the anodyne Aura voice when you could have a officious Caldari bombardier explaining missile mechanics or an unhinged Minmatar autocannon specialist explaining the benefits (and dangers) of close-range combat. There's a lot of opportunity to weave a bit of colour into the experience to flesh out the universe for rookies.


Very cool suggestion. Only problem being that the screen streams from local disk so we'd all have to (re)download that content.

Getting the CQ to be able to stream from network (youtube or other sources) might be worth looking at.

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Cid Tazer
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2012-07-23 17:44:25 UTC
Vertias probably wouldn't be so keen to trying to stream things from the majority of the current Eve cluster due to bandwidth concerns. There would probably need to be a new streaming server created which while not too bad to do, would be a capital investment which could have been used for something else.
Seismic Stan
Freebooted Junkworks
#5 - 2012-07-23 18:08:08 UTC  |  Edited by: Seismic Stan
There's no need to complicate it with streaming and bandwidth issues if that will cause a problem. The initial videos could be downloaded as part of a bigger patch and subsequent ones could be an additional optional download for interested parties.

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Sensible People
Sigma Grindset
#6 - 2012-07-23 19:05:04 UTC
I like the idea, it might make me turn CQ back on.

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BALKAN EXPRESS
Shadow Cartel
#7 - 2012-07-24 08:39:25 UTC
it is a quite nice idea. Well imo the resources are well worth if they allow for EVE to keep the new players.

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Davon Mandra'thin
Das Collective
#8 - 2012-07-24 16:13:38 UTC  |  Edited by: Davon Mandra'thin
Supported.

And I would like to suggest that the screen in the captains quarters could really use some customization options aswell, if something like this were to see implementation. Like controls over which kind of things pop up on screen.
Oberine Noriepa
#9 - 2012-07-30 11:30:36 UTC
This is a good idea.

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Hogyoku
Goonswarm Federation
#10 - 2012-07-30 15:02:08 UTC
Great idea, I support this!
Ugleb
Jotunn Risi
#11 - 2012-08-01 19:28:17 UTC
The view screen was the most functionally useful feature of the CQ. By all means add useful things like this to its limited playlist!

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Jack Carrigan
Order of the Shadow
#12 - 2012-08-04 05:05:31 UTC
This is one of the better ideas I've seen for fleshing out the CQ a little. And to integrate something that can be quite useful would be awesome.

Market feeds could be added with a reasonable delay so that it isn't constantly locking up as well.

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