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Rubicon new character selection screen :S

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Petra Hakaari
Stalking Wolfpack
#1 - 2013-10-15 10:32:52 UTC
Yeah, it was indeed time for a change, but, changing one crappy screen with the avatar for another one?

When you could just place de entire toon in animated 3D?

Say like the 3 of them sitting on captain quarters, race chosen from the last chosen toon on the previous session, when you hover or clic the mouse on one of them he/she might stand up, come closer to the cam, fancy pimp pose, and the relevant data show up on one side, letters slading in a cool way or something, then you clic/hover another one, the previous goes to sit down again, the one you selected gets up, approaches the camera, their data show up, etc.




But no, you exchanged one crappy avatar static image for another one...

Because tities .
Montami
Dreddit
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#2 - 2013-10-15 11:06:04 UTC
I like this.
Another!
Rhatar Khurin
Doomheim
#3 - 2013-10-15 11:06:20 UTC
Whilst i know what you mean it isn't a particulary great leap forwards.

Who really spends more than about a second on the char selection screen?
BenDover
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#4 - 2013-10-15 11:08:53 UTC
Something like this?

People would moan about the graphic demand. To which I would say: "CCP could always allow players to chose between static character screen or fancy 3D animated one". More moaning would ensue.

Just let it be.
l0rd carlos
the king asked me to guard the mountain
#5 - 2013-10-15 11:30:02 UTC
No, thank you OP.

I rather want something that loads fast.

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Yummy Chocolate
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2013-10-15 11:30:47 UTC
*nom*

Frostys Virpio > CCP: Continously Crying Playerbase

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Petra Hakaari
Stalking Wolfpack
#7 - 2013-10-15 11:36:39 UTC  |  Edited by: Petra Hakaari
Rhatar Khurin wrote:
Whilst i know what you mean it isn't a particulary great leap forwards.


Well, don't you have the feeling that since the balance started the expansions are contentless?

Some missile model here, some changes on exploration there, new model here, animation there but where has been those Apocrypha expansions? or Dominion?

I'm not saying that having this game selection animation would be amazing and ad so much content, obviously not, but as I said, it's been a couple of years of lame expansions, tbh these are not expansions, are tweaking patches that include some UI revamp and some cool feature, but not expansions per se.


Rhatar Khurin wrote:
Who really spends more than about a second on the char selection screen?


No body but all games that have a fancy toon have this cool screen selection thingy, and since CCP is changing it, at least make it be at the same level nowdays game's industry.


BenDover wrote:
Something like this?


Yeah, something like that, they've got the material already, the 3D toons, the CQ's, also on the table there is this holographic image of the ship currently in use, they would only need to program where each of the 3 toons should stay on idle, but the animations and places and everything to be used is ingame already.

I'm seeing it in my brain dude xD the last selected toon sitting on the couch LIKE A BOSS, and the other ones one on each corner doing whatever... you clic on the main toon, he gets up, badass look on his face... you clic on the other ones, the main sits down, the one you clic approaches... and all this while on one side of the screen the relevant information hovers around sliding form the side...


BenDover wrote:
People would moan about the graphic demand. To which I would say: "CCP could always allow players to chose between static character screen or fancy 3D animated one". More moaning would ensue.


Well, ppl complain because ppl love to complain, thats what humans do, they are reluctant to change:
"hey, this tracking thing sucks" but its the best to decloak ships, not to talk to use it to D-scan.
"dood, dafuq, this jump animation makes me dizzy" but it gives immersion to the game, and everyone, ones more than others, like the cool graphics thingy, if you don't, go back to play Quake II...


As you said, ppl should be able to disable it, and use Rubicon's character selection, but for real, when i first heard they where going to change the screen selection i was like wow cool, I'm looking forward to it, but when i saw this new crap i was so disappointed, CCP changed one old crap for a new one, different shape, same smell.

Because tities .
Lipbite
Express Hauler
#8 - 2013-10-15 11:40:42 UTC
Some EVE subscribers still play on calculators, no 3D for you.

(I believe that was the real reason of 5% subscriptions loss after Incarna which made captain quarters loading mandatory)
Petra Hakaari
Stalking Wolfpack
#9 - 2013-10-15 11:48:41 UTC
l0rd carlos wrote:
No, thank you OP.

I rather want something that loads fast.



If that's the case i'd recommend you a couple of these in RAID 0 http://www.alternate.de/Corsair/Corsair+ForceGS_2,5_SSD_128_GB/html/product/1046599/?

Because tities .
Random Woman
Very Professional Corporation
#10 - 2013-10-15 12:01:54 UTC
I want profiles in the launcher, that load chars at once, omitting everything else. I know the implications about security here and dont care. Well i wont get my wish (nor a working launcher), and I belive OP has to live with a medicore half assed new character selection screen. Welcome to CCP where all softwaredevelopment guidelines are centered around half assed.
Rhatar Khurin
Doomheim
#11 - 2013-10-15 12:05:59 UTC
You know what bugged me more about the new char selection screen? the asteroids in the background don't spin around.

*balls fists with rage*
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#12 - 2013-10-15 12:08:13 UTC
No thanks.

This is a great middle-ground of revamping the antedeluvian character select screen and kind-of-reintroducing the log-on screens we lost with the new launcher.

Loading it down with pointless bling would rather defeat the purpose and just make it annoying in exactly the same way as release-day WIS was annoying.
Debora Tsung
Perkone
Caldari State
#13 - 2013-10-15 12:15:47 UTC  |  Edited by: Debora Tsung
Petra Hakaari wrote:

When you could just place de entire toon in animated 3D?


The moment that happened the forums would melt and a storm of whines would drown iceland in the sea of tears.

Stupidity should be a bannable offense.

Fighting back is more fun than not.

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Velicitia
XS Tech
#14 - 2013-10-15 12:34:36 UTC  |  Edited by: Velicitia
Petra Hakaari wrote:
Rhatar Khurin wrote:
Whilst i know what you mean it isn't a particulary great leap forwards.


Well, don't you have the feeling that since the balance started the expansions are contentless?

Some missile model here, some changes on exploration there, new model here, animation there but where has been those Apocrypha expansions? or Dominion?

I'm not saying that having this game selection animation would be amazing and ad so much content, obviously not, but as I said, it's been a couple of years of lame expansions, tbh these are not expansions, are tweaking patches that include some UI revamp and some cool feature, but not expansions per se.


CCP realized "Jesus Features" were bad after Incarna went horribly wrong. They've pretty much given up on "something huge" in one expansion, and are instead using each expansion as a stepping stone to the "big thing".

The other thing is, CCP has been doing a metric ****ton of backend work the last several expansions (code, ship balancing, tiericide, etc) -- EVE is not one of those games where the new expansion coming out will mean the old stuff is just "old" and will never be touched again by the players or the devs. Yeah, it's not new stuff, but it's the stuff that we were told had to wait for 18 months between Dominion and Incarna (which was a terrible expansion, and a real let down as far as WiS was concerned).

Crucible was the first (and, per CCP, a bit rushed) step in fixing their past mistakes.
Inferno/Retrubution were to fix crimewatch and other horribly broken things (CCP still missed the mark in some regards, but it happens).
Odyssey changed scanning (for the better?) and hacking and stuff ... and some less bad mining ... with the long-term plan of "capsuleer built important stuff" (per Seagull).

Rubicon is apparently expanding the little bits we got in Odyssey, and adding in the first of the structures that appear to center around the "smallholdings" thing CCP had planned last year ... and possibly expanding on some of that vision Seagull shared with everyone at fanfest.


Petra Hakaari wrote:
Rhatar Khurin wrote:
Who really spends more than about a second on the char selection screen?


No body but all games that have a fancy toon have this cool screen selection thingy, and since CCP is changing it, at least make it be at the same level nowdays game's industry.


And "all games" also have multiple servers to play on. Some are even PVE-only!Roll

edit to self-censor so I don't stuff deleted Blink

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Norian Lonark
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#15 - 2013-10-15 12:45:07 UTC
The way I click a character to login has never really bothered me that much, fine the way it is now, fine with the new screen. Now if I could switch characters without having to quit and login again that would be good.

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Arduemont
Rotten Legion
#16 - 2013-10-15 12:47:39 UTC
Debora Tsung wrote:
Petra Hakaari wrote:

When you could just place de entire toon in animated 3D?


The moment that happened the forums would melt and a storm of whines would drown iceland in the sea of tears.


It would be marvelous. Make it so.

"In the age of information, ignorance is a choice." www.stateofwar.co.nf
Amhra Rho
Accujac Elimination
#17 - 2013-10-15 12:49:33 UTC
This screen looks incomplete to me. Maybe we'll like it better - or at least, we'll be able to judge it better - once it's nearer to completion.

There's real reasons why your Eve character doesn't do /dance.
Arduemont
Rotten Legion
#18 - 2013-10-15 12:58:41 UTC
l0rd carlos wrote:
No, thank you OP.

I rather want something that loads fast.


A calculator loads fast. Maybe you should use that.

"In the age of information, ignorance is a choice." www.stateofwar.co.nf
l0rd carlos
the king asked me to guard the mountain
#19 - 2013-10-15 13:32:09 UTC
Petra Hakaari wrote:
l0rd carlos wrote:
No, thank you OP.

I rather want something that loads fast.



If that's the case i'd recommend you a couple of these in RAID 0 http://www.alternate.de/Corsair/Corsair+ForceGS_2,5_SSD_128_GB/html/product/1046599/?

I allready have 5x 1.5 TB as a raid 5 + a system disk. There is no physical space left in my computercase.

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Skeln Thargensen
Doomheim
#20 - 2013-10-15 13:36:30 UTC
SSD isn't going to help server-side loads.

and fast character switching would definitely be desirable.

forums.  serious business.
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