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EVE Online: Crucible Feedback thread

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Einear Lightfingers
Outer Rim Oreworks Company
Galactic Republic Alliance
#81 - 2011-11-29 23:35:26 UTC
I typically am displeased with content in patches for the last two years or am angry about how CCP says the system will be backup by "X" time and fails to hit that target by almost half a day... This time around I have a totally different view. Yes, CCP ran over by an hour to an hour and a half. They did bounce the system at least once after but not the normal 6 or 7 times like patches past. As far as the folks missing their station spinning in the past, I can only say go in to space, cloak and enjoy the imagery. BEAUTIFUL!

Great job CCP, major improvement in patch and delivery. Still a few bugs here and there, but nothing that can't be sorted over the rest of the week. Thank you and don't let the tears spoil your triumph.
Jenn Makanen
Doomheim
#82 - 2011-11-29 23:37:21 UTC
I like the 'fly through a planet' warp effect. Works better than the white interior Big smile
Lucid Matrix
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#83 - 2011-11-29 23:42:43 UTC
Evil Any reason why export/import cost is now eating over half my PI profit?! Feels like CCP just raped me hard. Also, why must so many things be ruined every time a few improvements are added?
Buzzmong
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#84 - 2011-11-29 23:48:57 UTC
I'll keep this concise:

Negatives:

  • Gal shuttle and Comet have lost their iconic schemes.
  • Muted colours. The new art direction is a bit too dark and lacks vibrancy
  • Certain ships, mostly T2, have lost all their colours, Creodron in particular. The current extremely dark green needs to be reverted to brighter lighter shade
  • New Font -> Too much spacing resulting in large increases of window size/space used. The "small font" which can be applied to the overview is perfect, and needs to have the option be applied globally for those of us with smaller screens. UI scaling to 90% causes far too many problems when the actual size of things like the icons and hud is ok.
  • New nebula are far too bright. I appeciate you want to make them stand out, but they're excessively bright and are actually really taxing on the eyes.
  • PI tax, possibly.
  • No TE nerf/AC nerf to stop them being better blasters than blasters are alongside having brilliant general range


Positives:

  • Warp tunnel effect is woo!
  • V3 shaders!
  • New thruster effects!
  • Engine trails!
  • All the CQ's! (had a quick look, they're now off again as they're still just eyecandy and lacking a use)
  • Hybrid buff!
  • General awesomesauce!
  • CCP Guard on a "beach"!
Geo Max
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#85 - 2011-11-29 23:51:26 UTC
Nebulae are beautiful!... but what a shame you spend a lot of time working on the new ship textures, wich are awesome by the way, but the ship looks too dark in space. :(
Kru Winchester
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#86 - 2011-11-29 23:52:37 UTC
At first I was like meh, but then I was like omg new UI pwns. Hated font, but got used to it after 5 minutes. Great patch. Loot all is great. per-ship orbit is great. ship spin counter is great. rubber band selection is great. new commands are great, and drone return is great. improvements to fitting window is great. overall a lot of things that make eve that much easier to use.
Dograzor
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#87 - 2011-11-29 23:55:37 UTC
I love the amount of content in this patch, it actually feels fresh! Long overdue changes have finally been made, we have new ships, items, better visuals and mechanics... and I esp. love the engine trails :)

The only major downside is the font. The size and spacing makes it difficult to focus between lines of texts, and it feels too "busy". It is distracting, and takes away my focus when reading information (local, chat, assets, skills etc) ingame.

The second part (somewhat related to the font) is that you gave us a scalable UI, but some things remain unscalable, for example the size of the player boxes in the local channel. Combined with the bulky font it is really distracting. I tried to reduce the UI size, it results in a smaller and somewhat more readable rightclick menu's, but it feels out of sync with the other big bulky boxes in the various windows...

Either fix the font, or give us the old one back, or give us the option to resize more UI components, or else I can forsee headaches trying to read stuff. Don't get me wrong, I like that you try new idea's, but make it practical and do it when its needed. This feels like fixing something that wasn't broken.

Apart from that, I love the direction you are taking right now, keep it coming! Pirate
valignat malsvir
Systems Federation
#88 - 2011-11-30 00:07:36 UTC
so been playing this game for a while now. I like alot of the new thing that came out on this patch, but didnt have a problem with how the text was. I could read it fine an dont see why it had to b changed infact ,kinda irritates me. want to know how i can change it back for myself.
Jayem See
Perkone
Caldari State
#89 - 2011-11-30 00:11:02 UTC  |  Edited by: Jayem See
This release has made me happy in so many ways.

Love the ship fitting to market quickbar, new nebulae are beautiful, didn't die due to bugs after undocking, 100 personal fittings, waypoints now make sense, new ships, release was very fast, downtimes after were minimal.

Am extremely impressed tbh.

Whilst I don't expect every release to fix and meddle with so many different aspects of the game, I have to congratulate you on an extremely well released iteration.

Thanks for making the game I love a whole lot better. Good work - keep it up.

CCP Deserve some plaudits for this release even if it nerfs and buffs some of your favourite ships. Adapt or....well **** off tbh.

\o/

Edit: trails...warp effect...ahhhhhhhhh

Aaaaaaand relax.

Jenn Makanen
Doomheim
#90 - 2011-11-30 00:14:02 UTC
teeny minor point. the ship spinning counter doesn't offset, so when you have two screens, it's split at the middle.
Borgholio
Borgholio's Collective
#91 - 2011-11-30 00:15:06 UTC
Auto dock? AUTO DOCK!!! *does the special happy fun-time dance*

You will be assimilated...bunghole!

matarkhan
ConHugeCo
Rusty Stargazers
#92 - 2011-11-30 00:15:53 UTC
Could you fix the patcher so that you don't have to hit "OK" once it's downloaded? Maybe give us a checkbox for "install when downloaded" or something?

1) Come home from work
2) Start downloading 1.6G patch
3) Wander off to do other things for a while while patch installs
4) Come back to find patch downloaded, but not installed
5) Wait another 20 minutes for patch to run

^ kinda annoying.
Ribana
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#93 - 2011-11-30 00:19:39 UTC
There is a serious problem with the font. I don't like it. I tried UI scaling and its not any better. There must be someway to change the font PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jayem See
Perkone
Caldari State
#94 - 2011-11-30 00:21:57 UTC  |  Edited by: Jayem See
Ribana wrote:
There is a serious problem with the font. I don't like it. I tried UI scaling and its not any better. There must be someway to change the font PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!


buy glasses - the rest of us had to as a result of reading it for the last X years.

Bye :)

Fake Edit (or is it) the new font is great - kthxbye

Aaaaaaand relax.

Ribana
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#95 - 2011-11-30 00:30:28 UTC
I don't need glasses to see. Perhaps if you do need glasses the font is good for you. But for me it is very ugly and irritating to look at. It is so bad that I will wait till I have the option to change it before I play again. Solved my own problem. haha
Rynnik
Evasion Gaming
The Ancients.
#96 - 2011-11-30 00:39:37 UTC
This is amazing. And beautiful. And really really nice.

PLEASE PLEASE add the ability to scale the brackets and 'in space' UI elements to one setting and the windows to another at some time in the future!

Nice work CCP. Pat yourself on the back. Take 15 minutes off, and then do more of this forever.
Attiana
W. White Pharmaceuticals
#97 - 2011-11-30 00:53:08 UTC
The newwork looks great. - nice job. Lol

However, the new hummming that strip miners make while they work is maddening - it is like being stuck in a jet engine (i like the POP when they fire though).

Can you please turn that off or let us control it? Really earsplitting.
Sassums
Dark Venture Corporation
Kitchen Sinkhole
#98 - 2011-11-30 01:06:40 UTC
Good update, but highly disappointed.

Tier 3 battleship's are a waste for those that fly Caldari as Caldari are Missile boats, not rails.

Corp Bookmarks are not what they were hyped up to be. You cannot right click in space, on an object and save its location to the Corp BM folder. You first have to save it to the personal folder, then move it to the corp folder. It is a pain in the ass.

Where are the alliance bookmarks? Same system, just for the alliance. Shouldn't be that hard if you have the system in place for corp BM's.

It is annoying how the corp BM's appear in space. If you don't create a folder for them, and just dump them into the Corp BM area it creates a huge list of BM's on your screen - also it creates doubles if you have the same in the personal folder.

Fuel blocks not being released for this update when they were hyped up to being released - unacceptable.

Finally the UI and chat is a total 100% utter disaster.

the 100% is too large, but when you move it down to 90% the boxes are a great size, but the text is too small.

If you move it back to 100% and play around with the actual chat size in the chat windows, you can make the chat size smaller, but the characters names to the right are still the same size as the UI, so it becomes unproportional. Annoying.

You still cannot read the amounts for stacks of items unless you mouse over them and hover. It is still hard to read unless you hover.

Isn't it possible to go back to the old UI and just increase the text size?

When will you reseed the faction tower BPC's?

I asked numerous times and got no response. Unacceptable communication.
Ottersmacker
Genos Occidere
TRUTH. HONOUR. LIGHT.
#99 - 2011-11-30 01:17:57 UTC
changing game balance
makes pew exciting again
keep up the fire

i just locked an open door.. strange, yet symbolically compelling.

Bucky O'Hair
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#100 - 2011-11-30 01:30:08 UTC
Stands and applauds

Bravo CCP Bravo

[b]We Are Ushra'Khan!

We are coming for our people.[/b]