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Hy!

The repair tool is failing and the patch is too.I have intel chipset maybe that is a problem please help.

firt of all, nice jobs guys. i really like the new nebulae and the v3 ship retexturing&stuff!

but sometimes the nebulae seem kind off blocky. especially when you look at the parts, which are not the shiny motives.
maybe the colour leveling is a little bit too gravelly? i worshiped the new nebulae @ 1920x1080 with every graphic detail at maximum.

example (i know, a littel too dark to really see what i mean...but maybe you get the idea?)

fly save,
naga




edit: just looked at the old nebulae on tq, there the colour leveling is much smoother. having the same thing on the new one would be the best thing ever.. ^^

also: new skins on starships = winage

Thanks for the feedback everyone, the skybox texture seams should be resolved during our next publish of the Nebulae.

The 'blockyness' is texture compression artefacts that we're currently working on.

First and quick impressiom: Awesome!!

Also, very good performance: about 60 fps (interval 1 set...) regularly.

Last, but not least...

cq seems to have better performance also... about 20 fps with a 4 years old 8800gtx
and better lights and camera controls behavior
Now i look soooooo cute!!

Seems you are doing adjustements in the right direction...
...or i am too excited with this expansion???


Well done boys!!!! keep on with the very very good work

Good to hear

I flew from Rens to PNQY-Y and did not notice any particular hit to my performance.

I REALLY like the way the nebulas are implemented. Watching the red nebula in Heimatar go from huge and surrounding me to a red blotch in the distance, to be replaced by the green-blue nebula that I would see at varying distances in Sinq Laison, Essence, and Placid. I really got a sense of where I was in space- that I had moved, astrogeographically speaking. When I hit Placid, I looked and saw Cloud Ring. Immediately realized what it was. Jumped a few systems to Cloud Ring, and was on the inside of the ring. Wonderful.

One of the things that used to annoy me about EVE was the sameness of space. What difference does it make if I'm in Heimatar or The Forge? What the systems looked like didn't really matter. Now it feels different to be in either of those regions. When I played WoW, I liked to explore, see the scenery, get to places I wasn't supposed to. I LIKE to explore, and when I got to Fountain and saw a new nebula in the distance, it made me want to fly over and see what it was. I've never really felt like that in EVE before.


I did think that Gallente space was darker than I expected. The cool colors are probably responsible for that, but the result was that my Anathema looked black. Cool, but it was a little darker than I figured hisec was going to be. Lowsec and 0.0 felt perfect.

• Do the new nebulae show any adverse performance issues with your PC?

Yes, camera stutters when rotating it. This happens in the hangar view too. When I do not rotate the camera, everything goes smoothly.
CQ is still too heavy for my poor graphic card: while playing in space I have everything on max and it goes very fast, while in CQ I have low frame rate ever with all graphic options at minimum.

The new nebulae system is wonderfull. It really adds more immersion to the game and a more realistic feel of the lighting.
However ships' hulls are too dark-gray and give me a plastic material feeling instead of metal material feeling. The new megathron navy issue texture is more smoother but I'd like to see back the green base color instead of that grey tone (pherhaps is the new lights effect)

Last note about performance: the mouse pointer is laggish and stutters like the camera.

Side note: everytime I jump through a gate che camera zoom resets to the default, really annoying

• How do you feel about the difference in high security, low security and null sec space?

not tested yet

CCP, the nebula are very very pretty, but we have some serious issues with them:

1. We really need more backdrops - per constellation at least. Movement through space just doesn't feel real enough without them. It seriously just doesn't feel real enough at all.

If CCP wants to get an example of what I mean, start in the system of Paala and do a direct route to Jita. Paala and Jita are ten-light years apart, and this trip crosses about 14 systems, but the backdrop does not change once. This is frankly absurd.

2. Backdrop positioning is all weird. Paala also gives us example of the positioning weirdness that's going on here. The LXQ2-T gate in Paala is in the direction of the big blue nebula I presume is central Caldari space, while the Uemon gate (which leads towards central Caldari space) is in the direction of a sandy-orange nebula which I can't identify yet. Since backdrop orientation is always the same, I can't really tell which direction my ship is facing in relation to the universe.

3. We need to be able to see the nebula on the map. The positioning of these nebulae mean nothing to us if we can't place them on the map. I know that big hour-glass explody star nebula means I'm in the drone regions, but what about that weird hazy orange one over there? All of these things mean almost nothing to me. I need to be able to see the relative size and position of these nebulae on the map for them to be meaningful.

I really hope you fix some of these issues so that we can get a better sense of where we stand in relation to the rest of space.

I would ask if a dev is reading would it be possible to get more high resolution backgrounds in game maybe as a selectable option via graphics config ? one thing that does ruin the immersion at the moment playing at 3360 by 1050 is the gas clouds (for want of a better term) are very very low res and look awful. Hopefully this improves with the new nebulae