EVE General Discussion

I didn't say I'll rather if they worked on the graphics instead of gameplay.

I said right at the beginning.
This year has been a year of progress .
Meaning that I acknowledge the hard work of the team.

I'm just suggesting ,maybe the next update should have a heavier focus on the graphics.

such as ?
and don't say bug and loophole fixes. Those stuff are compulsory .
What I am talking about is an expansion.
a BRAND NEW experience brought on from a leap forward , not a scoot.
A REVOLUTION

its not about being better than others.
They can be used as a reference.
BUT who you are TRULY racing against is yourself.

On a Triathlon , EVE has excelled in 2 , but now we are at the final push, the 10km run (graphics)

Lets not win by 10 seconds.
LETS WIN BY A MINUTE!

I think EVE looks great!

The first one I've met that says "if you punch your eyes out, you won't see the defects"
Stockholm syndrome victim no 5

Yes EVE looks great but i admit CCP are in alot of danger of this game looking completely outdated shortly. I understand that a complete DirectX11 overhaul would take hundreds of man hours but without it I think Eve will go down the drain quickly within 3 years.

New games right now have Tesselation options which is a big deal for us eye candy junkies. EVE needs tesselation....NOW

I also think better anisotropic filtering - in game options should be available.

Clouds should be alot better. They really should be done on a particle basis thesedays.

I am running on a puny 250GTS with 1 GB ram and some 6 year old wares .
Its still running on high with everything maxed with 60 fps to spare.

beauty is in the eye of the beholder , the graphics in this game are pretty good in my opinion and compared with 4 years ago when i started playing they are even better and compared how they were 9 years ago they are brilliant ,
it takes time and effort improving them , CCP can't just shelf everything they work for and only concentrate to improve their graphics each time , the community majority will not like this

@Op. I sort pretty much agree with most of what you said. I think EvE is probably the best looking space game out there but they do need to up their game in certain areas.

My main beef with the graphics in EvE is the effects. They just need to go the extra mile and make sure that they have both visual and auditory oomph. They actually took a step backward in that department in Retribution as far as I'm concerned. The new explosions suck by HW2 standards, the particle system is technically better but the overall effect just doesn't compare.

In HW2, the life of a ship had a certain continuity. When a ship was built or undocking, it wasn't just popped out, it was launched. When a ship dies, it does so in a fashion consistent with it's mass and purpose. Fighters left a streaking fire trail leading to an explosion, bigger ships had secondary explosions and slowly rolled out of control before a devastating final explosion. The sound effect made you feel like the ship was being ripped apart from the inside or that you were fighting for your life in a spacebourne fur ball. I think CCP could learn a lot about battle immersion from HW2.

I totally agree with you about the community ship modeling contests! We definitely need more of them, even if there aren't any prizes other than the possibility of it being put in game. I've been working on a new Typhoon model off and on over the past couple of months and would probably submit it should they have another one. The creativeness of the community was one of the things that drew me to this game so long ago =)

The problem with the graphics in an MMO is that often there are other considerations linked to it. Most notably performance when massive numbers are present. Top notch graphics are all well and good but in fleet battles and in trade hub systems where there are 100's of players for most people it would cause a lot of problems. So unless you happen to own a really high end system or spend most of your time alone in a system this really wouldn't do much good in the long run.

That said, CCP is updating the graphics and they're doing it one step at a time. The V3 project is mostly adjusting the way textures work on ships so that better effects can later be applied. And before those effects can happen every single object in the game needs to have those updates, which takes a lot of time considering the huge amount of assets this game has. The new lighting system they want to use is an example of this. As long as not everything has the V3 treatment they're not using it. Once that is done they can focus on dealing with ships whose poly counts are too low and so on. Same with corp logos and decalls. The V3 textures will open up the options of changing colors and so forth and they've already said that is something they do intend to do.

Give them time, they can only do so much at once.