EVE General Discussion

I am currently WAY away from the asteroid... it actually shows 5km away on my screen but I am still bouncing off of it...

Asteroid collision boxes need reworked!


Infiltrated outposts, the roid directly between me and the warp gate.. has a HUGE box that extends far from it's model.

EDIT NOW FIXED in 1.1 THANKS CCP! =)

Careful Tom, the forum police will accuse you of botting because any normal person would see the asteroid and go around them you know.

It is your huge charisma, which extends far beyond your ship's hull, that lets you bounce off.

I see you have that whole theory that the asteroid jumped in front of you, and in fact you did nothing wrong

Try it in a carrier. There's one Haven filled with asteroids and usually your carrier gets stuck right in the middle. Not fun when your local suddenly spikes with 15 neuts. Your only option then is to jump to a cyno. Hopefully your alliance had a beacon or you had an alt with a cyno ready...

Not that I rat in carriers. People who rat in carriers are horrible bad people.

Methinks CCP uses collision spheres, not boxes. Wrapping the collision code to mesh with any object will be tough, splitting the spheres into smaller ones will increase objects in space..

Shocking idea how about matching the size of the collsion "sphere" to the size of the model?

It requires a lot more computations to detect a collision of two complex objects than to taking only their estimated radii.

The improved accuracy does not add very much to the game. It might even be possible to get two ships entangled into one another. Imagine the tail of a Scorpion getting hooked in-between the panels of a Tempest...

Besides, you do know where F&ID is, right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXYeNiXHWmc

Truly epic.

Tessellation will fix all your problems.

Absolutely, the collision models in EVE are probably my only complaint with the game, and personal experiences with a few of them have come very close to being the end of EVE for me. A recent one caused me to lose a bit of interest in EVE - I haven't been commenting on the forums as much, have gone days without even playing and even lapsed on my skill queue last week. Fortunately, I haven't lost all my interest, and I was actually here tonight to raise the problem of the collision boxes on LCOs in general (not just asteroids) and found this thread. There is more than one way to fix this problem, though, and these two are not necessarily mutually exclusive. 1 - obviously, fix the collision boxes. 2 - fix pathfinding. When I'm orbiting a ship in combat, and I start bouncing off an LCO with all manner of alternative orbital paths that could have avoided, it's a little frustrating. But, I'll just switch to manual until I breach optimal, and then return to orbit. It's when the SECOND orbit starts flying me into the exact same damn structure that I start to laugh at the sheer lunacy of the pathfinding AI in this game.