EVE New Citizens Q&A

Yes the graphics engine and the object skins are regularly updated.

Check out some of the older youtube vids to see hoe far they've come.

Funny that. New game engines look so amazing when you first see them, you think "how can they improve on that!".

A few years later, the same game, and you think "I used to play that!"

Remember RidgeRacer anyone???

And don't forget the tease made in this 2011 vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J42F4WkeFQ4

at around 3:30.

Corp logos is top of my fanfest announcement predictions.

CCP do update now and then.

The guys in the graphics department wants more and better (cheered on by Marketing) while the guys in Finance holds back to stop people from not being able to play the game (also cheered by Marketing, but less open).

Latest obvious one was the move to Shader Model 3, by most regarded as ancient but it did cause a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth. (I was silently wailing since I had to find a working SM3 AGP card for my backup).

A slightly more EvE comment would be:
"Eve has graphics? Why, it's hidden behind all spreadsheets!" ;)

Impressive. What is the name of the graphic engine for EVE?

I belive trinity is still the bit that handles the spacebound stuff, and carbon is responsible for the character stuff.
I could however be very wrong :p

Yea they blended trinity into the carbon engine so that art assets could persist between the 2, that's how you can see your ship model spinning in the hanger and maybe one day see what's outside.

Some major visual updates I can remember

Trinity 1 - ships, stargates and stations remodeled
Trinity 2 - everything else remodeled
Updates to warp tunnel effects
Updated web, scram, mining laser effects
New scorpion model - I'm sure I'm not the only one to change a characters skill plan for this.
Way better gun models
New background nebula
New missile launcher models - so caldari would stop pouting
V3 texture packs

Compare that to wow which is the same age with way more subscribers to fund it and have updated very little.

On a side note the lack of a need to spend large amounts of system resources rendering terrain really has let ccp turn eve into quite a beautiful game with little load on a pc.

Now just give us tessellation and take my money damnit

Do I mention the dreaded "C" word?

(That's "clouds" btw, before i get banhammered)

Amen Sister!

I don't really know why you call out this crap MMO game for masses on this forum, but when you do that, please stay objective on this matter in terms of being strict to the facts. In other words, you are quite wrong about those "very little changes", because actually, World of Warcraft has changed enormously over those years, also in terms of graphics. I've been playing WoW since it's early US betas and I have some screenshots saved - believe me, the diffirence is freaking huge :) And in terms of content changes - well, you can't really compare EVE to WoW, because that second game had it's content, well, like at least tripled (and the base content was and still is one of the biggest in MMO genre), not only in terms of gameplay area, but also in terms of ingame ways to do stuff. Don't take me as a fanboy please, I'm just trying to say that bringing argument to the conversation about the matter you have no idea about is just plain bad :)
Best regards
Macalt