Wormholes

With the Retribution 1.1 Patch on Febuary 19th 2013 CCP re-introduced the WH Collapsing effect. I can only assume that at the same time they decided to update the WH graphics to use some newer graphic engin. This unfortunatly had some undesirable effects.

If you set your "Shader Quality" settings to Low , the wormhole is not the color that it should be. With Shader Quality at Medium or above the color of the wormhole is the color of the background for the wormhole leads to. So if the wormhole leads to a C6, the wormhole has the color of the C6 Nebula, If the Wormhole leads to H-Sec Gallente faction, the wormhole as the color of the Gallente Nebula, so on and so forth. However with Shader Quality Settings to Low the wormhole has the color of the system you are currently in, not the system you are going to. As such, by playing on low settings you are denying yourself some extremely useful intel.

It was not always this way, Prior to Retribution 1.1, the womholes has the proper color.

I proceeded to do a Petition. This was the responce from a GM :

(Edited the Petition response out as it appears to be agains the EULA to reveal the contents of private communications between CCP and players, In short the petition awnser was to file a bug report)

I took his advice and filled a bug report. The bug report was then classified as "filtered" and I never herd from it again.

I contacted Chitsa Jason (CSM8) yesterday, asked him if CCP had any intention of fixing this bug and he adviced me to submit an other bug report and send the bug report number to him as well a copy of my description. Instead of creating a brand new bug report I simply decided to re-open the old bug report and add to its description. I received an awnser from CCP today via E-Mail

(Edited the E-Mail awser out, as it is apparently againts teh EULA to reveal the contents of private communications between CCP and Players, In resume the answer was : Intended Feature, not a Bug)

So there we have it. "The problem you have described is an intended game feature or function, and not a bug." In other words, because of wanting better graphics, CCP has effectively place every EVE player that play on a computer that is not capable to easily run on the setting Medium ore higher at a Disadvantage. One could also say that CCP has quietly raised the minimum requirements for WH dwellers without letting anyone know.

Either make it so the colors of the WHs don't give out information about what where that wormhole leads to regardless your preferred shader quality setting or make it so that those that play on "low" setting can get the same information again. At the moment you are placing some players at a disadvantage because of hardware or dual boxing.

Yah but you can still get the same information from "show info" right?. WRONG the text description is less accurate then the visual indication. in a PvP situation, those visual cues can mean the difference between a whelp or a successful fight.

While it is true that I am fairly a new player I know of no other area in EVE where players are placed at a tactical disadvantage because they play on "low" shader quality. Its unfair.

If you play on low settings you cannot see turrets on ships placing you at a disadvantage.

That is actually a check-box and the check-box clearly indicates that you are denying yourself some useful intel (via the tool-tip description)

Laptop with an integrated graphics card. Bought last year.

This right here. You could dumpster dive for an EVE ready computer

I play on a laptop with a medium to high end graphics card (bought about a year and a half ago), and I can play eve at almost max settings. The problem is that I get some annoying lag when dualboxing even on medium settings, especially around a POS or a combat site cluttered with scenery.

Because I am usually dualboxing (or need to be ready to dualbox at a moment's notice), I keep my shader settings on low so that the lag goes away. This particular bug has annoyed me ever since it came out (for seemingly no reason too). I certainly know not everyone can afford to play on a computer with a graphics card that can take medium shader settings.

/signed

I think the client automatically turns down settings past the first or second multibox.

I also used to play on an old laptop, and generally understood that turning down my graphics would mean I'd lose some information like what the opposing ships were fitted with.

One would think, however, that CCP hadn't changed the code so much that wormholes couldn't keep their colors, even on low settings.

it doesnt.

Any chance CCP will PLEX-auction computers that can multibox wormholes in their settings they force us?