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CCP Goliath
C C P
C C P Alliance
#21 - 2013-01-30 10:10:14 UTC
Grideris wrote:
CCP Eterne wrote:
One of the big problems with running Rogue Drone events is the inability to create characters with appropriate avatars.


Didn't they upload slightly customised avatars for particular faction leaders? Might be possible to author your own image and put it on the image server if this is the case (and set it so you can't view full body).

EDIT: An example is Jacus Roden. If you look at him in game, you can view his portrait, but you can't actually see his full body (CONCORD stops you). This is different from normal agents, which you can do a full preview of.


This is just a hack though, not something we would want to use going forward, but rather something we want to replace with a more robust, adaptable system.

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CCP Goliath
C C P
C C P Alliance
#22 - 2013-01-30 10:10:33 UTC
Kel hound wrote:
CCP Eterne wrote:
One of the big problems with running Rogue Drone events is the inability to create characters with appropriate avatars.


Wasn't it possible to create faceless avatars sometime back in the incursion expansion?
Couldn't you just do the same for the actors?


That was a defect :)

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Turelus
Utassi Security
#23 - 2013-01-30 14:11:39 UTC
CCP Eterne wrote:
One of the big problems with running Rogue Drone events is the inability to create characters with appropriate avatars.

Surely CCP can just go and choose the picture they want to have in there though?

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Unit XS365BT
Unit Commune
#24 - 2013-02-02 16:39:45 UTC
Turelus wrote:
CCP Eterne wrote:
One of the big problems with running Rogue Drone events is the inability to create characters with appropriate avatars.

Surely CCP can just go and choose the picture they want to have in there though?


pictures yes.. unfortunately avatars.. no.

the distinction is simple.. when you click 'full body view' you load the avatar viewer...

one thought though is Dronietta. While she may be an abberation, (much like this character concept) she did resemble what could be called the first diplomatic contact between dronekind and capsuleers, to expedite this, she chose a digital avatar that was decidedly human in look.

Perhaps, as has been suggested earlier, when making contact with, for either ease of communication or for diplomatic reasons, the drones involved would perform a simillar act, choosing for themselves a human appearrance.

still... it would be far more epic in scope if the drone NPC's actually looked infested...

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Eliniale
Co-operative Resource Extraction
#25 - 2013-02-05 11:50:43 UTC
Unit XS365BT wrote:
Turelus wrote:
CCP Eterne wrote:
One of the big problems with running Rogue Drone events is the inability to create characters with appropriate avatars.

Surely CCP can just go and choose the picture they want to have in there though?


pictures yes.. unfortunately avatars.. no.

the distinction is simple.. when you click 'full body view' you load the avatar viewer...

one thought though is Dronietta. While she may be an abberation, (much like this character concept) she did resemble what could be called the first diplomatic contact between dronekind and capsuleers, to expedite this, she chose a digital avatar that was decidedly human in look.

Perhaps, as has been suggested earlier, when making contact with, for either ease of communication or for diplomatic reasons, the drones involved would perform a simillar act, choosing for themselves a human appearrance.

still... it would be far more epic in scope if the drone NPC's actually looked infested...


Infested terran Think this but with mechanic drone stuff.

Regardless of the portrait issue (which clearly can be worked around), I want rogue drones becoming a much more active LE players.

System ideas: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=191928&find=unread
Tydeus Mideia
State War Academy
Caldari State
#26 - 2013-02-07 13:42:45 UTC
Eliniale wrote:

Infested terran Think this but with mechanic drone stuff.


Somthing like Locutus?

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Eliniale
Co-operative Resource Extraction
#27 - 2013-02-07 14:50:41 UTC
While I did consider Borg, yet I was thinking more along the lines of organic looking mechanical parts, as the drones themselves tend to be organic looking. I'm thinking here of the claws and pincers they boast, as well as those drones that seem to 'swim' through space.

System ideas: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=191928&find=unread
Tydeus Mideia
State War Academy
Caldari State
#28 - 2013-02-07 17:05:18 UTC
Eliniale wrote:
While I did consider Borg, yet I was thinking more along the lines of organic looking mechanical parts, as the drones themselves tend to be organic looking. I'm thinking here of the claws and pincers they boast, as well as those drones that seem to 'swim' through space.


Aha! Like in the Matrix?

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Eliniale
Co-operative Resource Extraction
#29 - 2013-02-07 17:35:48 UTC  |  Edited by: Eliniale
Tydeus Mideia wrote:
Eliniale wrote:
While I did consider Borg, yet I was thinking more along the lines of organic looking mechanical parts, as the drones themselves tend to be organic looking. I'm thinking here of the claws and pincers they boast, as well as those drones that seem to 'swim' through space.


Aha! Like in the Matrix?


That is certainly the organic-machine aesthetic i was going for.

The look I have in mind is a hybrid between the the three, pieces of the orginal person should still be visible (While recognizable, they should be limited)

something like this: Cyborg but even more covered up by machinery

Edit: which incidentally reminds me: CCP please fix the ingame avatar that is omvistus.

System ideas: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=191928&find=unread
Unit XS365BT
Unit Commune
#30 - 2013-02-07 21:46:34 UTC
Ummmm... Bad Eli.. That's a sanshabot.

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Eliniale
Co-operative Resource Extraction
#31 - 2013-02-07 21:48:34 UTC
Unit XS365BT wrote:
Ummmm... Bad Eli.. That's a sanshabot.


As i stated more covered up with machinery

System ideas: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=191928&find=unread
Liuni Kalthis
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#32 - 2013-02-15 06:45:12 UTC
Heh this thread is making me want to research more and more about the rogue drones, especially with being Gallente. It would be interesting to have them come into play with Dust, Sansha, CONCORD, and the Empires all trying to balance on a pin head.
Kel hound
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#33 - 2013-02-15 11:41:44 UTC
CCP Goliath wrote:
Kel hound wrote:
CCP Eterne wrote:
One of the big problems with running Rogue Drone events is the inability to create characters with appropriate avatars.


Wasn't it possible to create faceless avatars sometime back in the incursion expansion?
Couldn't you just do the same for the actors?


That was a defect :)



That's a funny way to spell feature ;)
Eliniale
Co-operative Resource Extraction
#34 - 2013-02-15 15:18:23 UTC
Kel hound wrote:
CCP Goliath wrote:
Kel hound wrote:
CCP Eterne wrote:
One of the big problems with running Rogue Drone events is the inability to create characters with appropriate avatars.


Wasn't it possible to create faceless avatars sometime back in the incursion expansion?
Couldn't you just do the same for the actors?


That was a defect :)



That's a funny way to spell feature ;)


Does CCP actually have a definition for either kind? :)

System ideas: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=191928&find=unread
Liuni Kalthis
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#35 - 2013-02-15 16:19:36 UTC
Eliniale wrote:
Kel hound wrote:
CCP Goliath wrote:
Kel hound wrote:
CCP Eterne wrote:
One of the big problems with running Rogue Drone events is the inability to create characters with appropriate avatars.


Wasn't it possible to create faceless avatars sometime back in the incursion expansion?
Couldn't you just do the same for the actors?


That was a defect :)



That's a funny way to spell feature ;)


Does CCP actually have a definition for either kind? :)



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Henry Montclaire
Guild of Independent Pilots
DammFam
#36 - 2013-02-16 20:37:48 UTC
Sooo . . . I was reading some things about the Talocan, and apparently CCP once had some sort of story arc tying together the Sleepers, the Rogue Drones, the Talocan, and the Jove. Has this been resolved? Put on the back burner? Forgotten?
Eliniale
Co-operative Resource Extraction
#37 - 2013-02-17 17:36:05 UTC
Henry Montclaire wrote:
Sooo . . . I was reading some things about the Talocan, and apparently CCP once had some sort of story arc tying together the Sleepers, the Rogue Drones, the Talocan, and the Jove. Has this been resolved? Put on the back burner? Forgotten?


This was somewhat synced with AJ, but as AJ is indeed on the backburner, it's unlikely we'll learn more anytime soon

System ideas: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=191928&find=unread
Omnathious Deninard
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#38 - 2013-02-18 14:55:39 UTC
Eliniale wrote:
Unit XS365BT wrote:
Ummmm... Bad Eli.. That's a sanshabot.


As i stated more covered up with machinery

Maybe something like this http://ertaislament.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/phyrexian-hulk.jpg

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Buhhdust Princess
Mind Games.
#39 - 2013-02-18 15:14:14 UTC
Im seeing a huge live event string where all the factions team up to kill rogue drone people imo.

Also loyalties to drones would be sick
Eliniale
Co-operative Resource Extraction
#40 - 2013-02-19 11:13:57 UTC
Omnathious Deninard wrote:
Eliniale wrote:
Unit XS365BT wrote:
Ummmm... Bad Eli.. That's a sanshabot.


As i stated more covered up with machinery

Maybe something like this http://ertaislament.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/phyrexian-hulk.jpg


For 'pure' drones yes, but The stuff i was thinking about were assimilated vessels. Where the original crewmembers or capsuleer pilot were covered up by drone bits to serves as part of the ship as a 'creative thinking module'

System ideas: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=191928&find=unread
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