Player Features and Ideas Discussion

i'm going to +1 this.

I like to fraps (well, actually i use bandicam, because moar FPS), enjoy making videos.

This would allow for some very nice videos after the fight. Most fights I don't record, because i don't like the framedrop (Don't tell me how to optimize, my frames drop to about 70fps, but there's chokes sometimes).

Also it allows for less boring videos. some fights you are focused on the fights and you can't focus on getting "nice shots". And those are usually the greater fights you would like to share.
It would also allow for cuts and different views, following another ship during the fights, etc.

thanks to server "ticks" data in that recorder log would be updated once / second only, which shouldn't be a hard performance impact. I'd welcome it even without a separate render engine in the beginning. Hell, no "special" camera controls in first release. give me a ghost ship with stupid speed so you can follow anyone and i'll record the thing in several takes and take the shots i need...

Mostly, this would promote EvE massively. the eve videos out there would multiply by a LOT. With ACTUAL gameplay, not the cinematics, which seems to be current trend by CCP.


C'mon, just put some people on that tool. please.

I Promise (binding) to send every dev on that tool a gift package!

+1 from me - Great Idea!

JUST GET AN INTERN TO CODE IT OVER THE WEEKEND!!! I'm positive there are interns just DYING to get their bit of code into the game, plus this is something that would be completely client side based and just think of all the COOL videos we could make to promote the game, you got it half right with twtch streaming now finish the job. One weekend and we would have a recorder /player you already have all the code!!!

I bet you don't even need to make a playback program, provide the positional data of ships, modules that were activated etc in an ascii format and someone will MAKE one. Guaranteed!

I seriously can't believe that this hasn't happened yet.

+ 1

I mean in all fairness with the expansion of modern computing power in to the live streaming stages, thanks to Twitch TV and Own3d TV, there's no better time to consider creating this awesome tool. You could create some basic videos to teach people how to pvp, mine, good habits in space, and squadron tactics in big fleet fights. Shadowplay, while amazing, cannot do this to the same degree of detail. I'll never give up, but CCP are really dragging this one out! (7 years now in October)

I mean could you imagine hosting alliance fleet fight analysis streams? You could use the tool to go in to the grid and better strip apart the fleet fight process and really micro and macro every individual fleet fight component, target, layout, structure and composition to better learn how to fleet fight like pros, or fleet fight better. It doesn't have to be a live stream either, it could be a private video for your alliance that can or could be released to the public after it's mettle has been tested, I mean the potential of the Battle-Recorder tool is immense. CCP I plead with you to work on this yet again as I have been doing for the LAST SEVEN YEARS. (That did deserve caps c'mon.)

Yes, 1000 times, yes.

This was a thing of beauty back in bf2142 and the source demo tool is quite nice.

This would be great if possible.

I've seen that happen though in the past, where a feature that has had a little attention from Devs has lain there a long time before being integrated in some shape or form. At the very least they know about it, have discussed it and it's on one of their eventually-do lists gathering dust. Better than nothing!

The idea is sound. I was considering this tool a while ago (a few ears). But it boiled down to several problems.

1. Where to capture: Therea are two possible places. Either server side or client side.


• Server side has an advantage of being accurate. Technically it require log of every server tick for every grid with at least one pilot with recording switched on. The drawback is additional requred storage and server load.
• Client side has advantage of being very easy to capture (you just dump your incomming communication from server) and no need to change the core server code. The very severe drawback is the ammount of available data. Each player gets only data about position of the other ships and his own interraction with those ships. There would be no data about other ships on grid which does not interract directly with said player. As a result you would see a lot of ship being on grid wouthout any guns doing completely nothing (except for occasionally blowing up). This can be probably overcome by some "merge" tool whouch would use data recorded by several players to reconstruct more accurate dataset.



2. Captured content: The existence of rendering engine puts CCP slightly uneasy what it can be used for. With current client CCP has a control about the content. If the stand-alone render engine exist CCP will have no control about what it is used for. And this is imho the main problem.