EVE General Discussion

I know it's been said before, but I'm going to put my two cents' worth in anyways.

Some kind of visual indicator of damage would be really nice - flickering shields, melted or scarred armour, and holes or craters (or something!) to indicate structure damage. The current shield hardener effect is pretty underwhelming too - it basically looks the way I think your shields should look by default.

The sun also doesn't hold up at all when you're near it. After all the planets got redone in Tyrannis or thereabouts, they're simply gorgeous, making that sun look so much worse by comparison. Similarly, asteroid belts and ice fields are still a far cry from the more realistic look EVE's been taking on lately.

And missiles, obviously. I fly mostly Caldari, and it makes me weep that everybody else gets pretty turret effects and I get to watch a single glowing sphere go flying right past that dramiel.

EDIT: this one's more of a UI kind of thing, I think, but I saw somebody else post it and think it's awesome enough to merit more support. It'd be nice if my little whirling target lock showed useful information, like whether a target is within optimal/falloff, how fast they're moving, and roughly how much damage they've taken. I'm sure the overview's great, but I'd totally love to be able to pewpew with the overview minimized and just fly by eye.

That's actually in there right now, it's pretty faint though, it used to be more pronounced.

There is a lot of great ideas in here. The art department recently did a massive brainstorm on things to improve EVE visually and of course, many of their ideas are the same ones as listed here. Getting your point of view on it is hugely important though, because while coming up with ideas may be easy, prioritization can be challenging. I've taken the posts listed into a massive list that will be cleaned up, but from what I gather the main things you list are ( in non-priority order):

• Missiles ( bays, paths, explosions etc )
• Explosions + ship death
• More camera options
• Sensor booster, shield hardeners and such effects
• Seeing the effects of shields / damage on armor and structure
• More life in general, such as NPCs, billboards and other things
• Go nuts with state of the art graphics but allow people to turn things off
• Jump and cyno effects
• Projectile effects

There are more, and they are in the list, me not listing them doesn't mean that we are omitting them.

Thanks!

missiles they need a lot of love. myself i always think it should be some what like a submarine missile launch more of a tube and the graphics could show the door swinging open something like this

OH GOD I'm looking forward to all this :D

I don't know if it's going to count or not, but I'll still help on the prioritization thing :

1 : Missiles
2 : Effects that affect your ship (Sensor booster, shield hardeners/boosters)
3 : Explosions + ship death
3 : Effects that affect others ships (Effect of shield damage/armor damage, needs more fire for structure damage :D)
4 : Projectile effects (Shoot 800mms shells or 1400mms, you'll see that the effect is quite underwelming :( )
5 : Jump and cyno effects (The Cyno effect is cool already, it just needs to be pointing to a unique destination, even if it's not pointing toward the real destination system. The jump effect is currently okay, but looks a bit old, true. And I'll add this little thing, change the "gate fire" effect. This one looks really old, and I'm pretty sure it could look like pure awesomness. If you want to know what kind of effects you could use, use the V3'd acceleration gate's electric sparks. They look awesome)
6 : More life such as NPCs and all. Actually, if you implement visual damage on ships, it will already add life to NPC ships, which is great. Some structures could use a revamped explosion (A truely badass one, I now know I can trust you guys to design awesome stuff :) ).
7 : Other stuff.

I am pretty sure Amarr use their slaves as they should, letting them die with the ship in Honour. But those weakminded goody twoshoes gallente probably have escape pods all over the place (reason of "fatness" of a certain ship?)

All kidding aside, your own wiki states the average manning and survival rates on ships from shuttle to titan.

I also would love see ships modules "displayed" "on" the hull, in the future, perhaps, someday (dreams).

turrets coming out when something is targetted and stay in if not?

Something I've been thinking about shipsplosions and wrecks- there could be three damage-based sets of wrecks and explosions.

Set 1: Ship is killed by a small hit (only just enough to take out its last HP): Large "bubble" explosion, current wreck
Set 2: Ship is killed by a large hit (medium-range overkill): Ship is gutted by explosions, windows and parts of hull blow out, burnt-out but externally mostly intact wreck
Set 3: Ship is one-shotted or a very large hit (or DD): Multiple large explosions, ship is knocked sideways, broken-up chunks wreck.

Logistics drones have no thruster effects.

Well the animation could play after the pod is ejecting.