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Besina Echerie

Vermona Collective

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#61 - 2012-12-19 08:44:45 UTC | Edited by: Besina Echerie

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If I understand correctly you just bump at the asteroids. Bumping area around them is too big (they even don't have shields) but it's a totally different problem not connected to tracking.

Graphically, i'm scraping into # there. I feel like I should be hitting point "T". I'm clicking well outside the asteroid itself.


Besina Echerie Vermona Collective Likes received: 83	#62 - 2012-12-19 08:55:00 UTC \| Edited by: Besina Echerie 1 Another graphical thingy.. ________________ ______________X_ ________________ ______####______ _____##me#______ ______####______ ________________ ________________ I see this on my screen. I click X. I will bounce off the asteroid hard as I crash into it. It just doesn't seem as intuitive as it seems it aught to.

Rammix

TheMurk

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#63 - 2012-12-20 04:55:11 UTC

Besina Echerie wrote:

Another graphical thingy..

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I see this on my screen. I click X. I will bounce off the asteroid hard as I crash into it. It just doesn't seem as intuitive as it seems it aught to.

It's NOT about tracking camera. As I said it's just a BUMP. It seems you're too new to EVE and just don't know what a bump is.
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Besina Echerie

Vermona Collective

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#64 - 2012-12-20 06:20:28 UTC

I know what a bump is. I'm zoomed in pretty close to my ship. I'm less than half the height of my atron away from the surface texture of the asteroid when my ship bounces off of it. I was trying to fly at a point that's one whole asteroid diameter, and the asteroid dwarfs my Atron, away from the thing. I was also noticing this when I was flying around through strip miner beams made by parked stationary miners. No "bump" there, but I still end up passing the beam in a different place than I would expect, and I was trying to correct for the camera distance and had the camera pretty close in actually.

Rammix

TheMurk

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#65 - 2012-12-20 07:55:27 UTC | Edited by: Rammix

Besina Echerie wrote:

Tracking doesn't play any role in aligning and approaching. When tracking is on, your ship is shifted from the center of the screen and you can't normally look "through" your ship. If you don't want to turn tracking off try to stretch an imagenary line from your ship (i.e. its ACTUAL position) to the point you're aiming to. Centre of the screen is not used for setting trajectory for your ship. It's just logical: you fly a ship and not a camera.

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Eugene Kerner

TunDraGon

Goonswarm Federation

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#66 - 2012-12-20 08:50:27 UTC | Edited by: Eugene Kerner

Rammix wrote:

Tracking camera is awful. And totally unusable when you stop just looking and try using it in combat.

1: It forcedly places my ship out of the center of the screen, not allowing to adjust it so that (my) ship would be centered and enemy vessel would be a bit higher to the left. Just try if you don't believe. "Tracking" checkbox in d-scan window solves nothing in this case, because your own ship is still not centered.

2 (I hate this most): It resets camera zoom to some fixed unchangeable range. For example, I fly interceptor and wish to see objects in 30km radius from my ship but with camera tracking it's just impossible - every switch between targets resets camera zoom to much closer distance than I need. Or activate tracking camera and try to observe the sphere with 70+ km radius actively switching targets.

Edit: I just saw this is a old thread so I had to delete my insult to the OP
It works fine for the most part. One of the best parts of the expansion.

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Shan'Talasha Mea'Questa

The Perfect Harvesting Experience

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#67 - 2012-12-20 20:58:37 UTC

CCP Orion wrote:

Rose Hips wrote:

Try targeting a drone in combat.... wow what a (unwanted) rush!!!!

the camera should no longer track drones since this morning. But you can hitch a ride with a combat drone with lookat and track your target from there, that's quite fun, tracking works from any object to any object (except the player ship alas, since it's non select-able as is)

Spider Drones in missions... especially when they are in orbit and still on their MWD-boost.

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