EVE General Discussion

Well, there's been feedback: they are looking on it, there's summer holidays ahead and it will take time.

The more I think about it, I am more convinced that tehre is no way in which CCP can avoid this stuff from happening. They use a certain development approach that allows them to produce 2 udpates per year, but also haves its own drawbacks, one of them is diffcult synchronization.

If you got team A doing the "remove bar" thing, team B doing the "replace transition effect" thing, team C doing the QA testing, team D doing the animation art, and team E coding it, delaying the implementation b/c the effect is nauseating is not an option.

And then, fix it once Teams C, D and E have been disasembled and reallocated to other tasks, also is slow and difficult.

If you're NOT CCP, you may have a number of middle-range controllers to keep this kind of synchronization right and ensure that team 27 is not uncoding the work of team 18, FAI. But CCP never promotes anyone and keeps a light management structure aka once a guy who can decide that team D spoiled it with the camera pan sees that it needs fixing, everything is so advanced that there is no way but release, pray for the best.... and fix later if possible.

Oh yea, putting the function inside of an if statement, adding 1 variable, and putting an entry in the config page is sooooo hard.

Would have taken you less time than writing this reply.

It truly is pathetic.

eve - the only game where people quit over a simple animation

simple ... take your sunglasses off. What a huge understatement to come up with!

+1 for the: "Let us deactivate the jump animation" crowd

It was nice the first three times, now its just annoying.

For the record:

I'm still not at all happy with the camera movement
I still don't find the whole tunnel thing to be visually appealing
I still don't like the "quick zoom into position" at the destination

So no, I haven't adapted at all and still would like a switch to turn it off.

I think the new animation is perfectly fine.
Actually, bring the old sounds back. That would be grand

I remember when the trinity expansion came out that players were then whining about the prettier graphics.

No issues with that, but i too would like to DC the dizzying vortex. I have 2 issues with what is occuring that are both impeding game function with me.

1. I use my tactcal overlay religously, each time i exit the gate i am zoomed at zero and the constant scrolling back is a real PITA.
2. Sometimes my laptop gets stuck in vortex mode to which i've become accustomed to minimizing game and bringing it back up.
3. The WHOOSH of going through the gate is so loud it drowns out VIOP programs and i've yet to be able to turn that down. Can we soften the whoosh or best yet DC the gate effect.

CCP someone said they hated loading bars, instead they gave us loading tunnels which we now hate. Good job at forward thinking about how the players feel jumping 100 gates a day.

20 Jumps the other day-- AFK'd until I got to the lowsec gate, then I had no choice but to watch the warp to ship animation, but at least it was only like 5-6 jumps. I don't move between systems much these days. Still paying and playing though.

Here's a very valid question however, why are we forced into a first person view at all? It's so contrary to everything in the game. Even player death is a third person view and according to the lore or whatever, we view our ships from the third person due to tiny cameras that orbit the vessel. So according to the story warping shouldn't be any different. Just saying.

CCP I love your game, but the animation sucks!! I know the 2012/2013 players who you intended to reach love it, but we the paying and established account holders clearly beg to differ.