EVE General Discussion

Just biomass. I can handle newer games fine. You do not get jack of what I am telling you here.

We have too many worthless ships now, why would we need more?

I am so sick of the pony people wanting more fluff, instead of actual game expansions....

Hey now, don't bring the hello kitty skins into this. i'd give a kidney for a hello kitty navpoc.

I couldn't help but notice that you have yet to refute or back up anything. All you have given are broad generalized statements. Is this how you 'burn down' arguments? Minimum specs still only require a 128 mb card, if they even make those anymore, that supports shader model 3 (oh sorry that was an upgrade to the specs from 4 years ago). Preferred specs call for a card that is 4 freaking years old and has 720 Stream Processing Units, which is on the low end of what current cards offer. Even a semi current machine isn't going to notice a few added skins.

EDIT: No personal attacks or trolling, please - ISD Tyrozan

Part of the graphics upgrades we have all been enjoying has been to make sure that ship colors, textures and other effects are handled in a way where any ship is capable of having a variety of color schemes. The information is already in the client, the only different information that is sent is the numerical codes for each color etc.

In other words the palate is already on your machine, the only thing that changes are the numbers applied to each part of a ship... thus no increase in resources used aside from perhaps a bit more space taken up on your hard drive to store the information.

I'm sure many people will find the fluff unnecessary, and that's fine. The standard color schemes will do doubt be available for them and I respect their choice. I also respect the choice of those that would like to change things up a bit.

The important thing to remember is that these custom palates won't work your card any harder than it currently does. It was one of the benefits of all the graphics work that has been done.

I think that the most relevant point is that since all of this information is in our client already new skins for a wide variety of our ships would appear to be definitely in the works.

The only real question is how it will be implimented. So far it appears that they will be offered as individual ships (or sub types of a given hull) on the open market. Personally, if this route is chosen, I'd like to see the relevant BPO's be available only from those NPC corps who are involved. In other words, if you want to make ships with an Inner Zone paint job you need to buy the BPO from an Inner Zone station... although the ship itself could (of course) be sold anywhere.

You ignore that all standard Megathrons have the same texture and so having 100 Megathrons will still only mean to have 100 of the same model and skin. Adding new textures means you will need to foresee the event where all 100 Megathrons are having different textures.

You then want a graphics engine that is capable of displaying as many ships as possible so that one gets as many players onto the grid as possible, because it is supposed to be a massive multi-player game.

If you start doubling and tripling the numbers of textures for each ship will you need more video memory and thereby increase the hardware requirements. And for what? For some more pretty colours.

So, no thanks.

And it does not need to become any bigger of an issue either.

It is just smart by CCP to carefully add new skins and models to the game. And I prefer new models far more than some banana-yellow ship.

... and their own models and attributes and roles, thereby making a much better use of the video memory by giving everyone something to play with, not just something new to look at.