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Good Morning,
Thanks to CCP, very very wonderful expansion!

My opinion about new Naga ship is that this ship is very usefull but needs a drone bay!
Is strange that a battlecruise class hasn't a drone bay... are very big ships!


Thanks, bye!

For the first time I must say good work CCP, with this new changes EVE is now more versable game, i like that very much.
But please solve the problems with bugs, lag, ..., EVE must be more playable.

Hi,

i really like this expansion. After Incarna this is amazing.

I resubscribed most of mine accounts again.

Thank you :)

Gregorian chanting is back in Amarr stations!

I am happy again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111111111111!!

Back to being a creepy mother****er

What is CCP's position on the accusations recently leveld by certain alliances that CSM The Mittani has used his position and the additional foreknowledge not announced pre-release to help line goonswarm's own pockets?

All and all it seems ok besides some of the tweeking still NEEDS to be done.

One thing I don't care too much for is the change in the skills list that shows time to next level in 'months, days, hours, min.'.

Is that a 30 day month or a 31 day month?

If it's a 31 day month can I wait until Feb. to start traning so I can knock off a couple day of traning?

Please just change it back to 'days, hours, min.'

Few minor complaints that are completely utterly overshadowed by the overall awesomeness of Crucible. Thanks, job well done.

Four complaints about ship aesthetics:

1.
The reflective ships don't change colour half as much in magnitude as they did pre-Crucible. Granted there is some change; you can see your ship in brown in Amarr space or dark red in the Minmatar region. But it isn't like it used to be; it looks like a whole phase of ambient lighting is gone when, pre-Crucible, the entire ship's lighting appeared to change colour when you landed in a system with a new background. Nowadays, if most of space is black, then most of your ship is just its plain colour apart from a smear of the nebula reflection itself.

The shiny ships now are just so much less interesting to look at. Everywhere you go they're just basically dark and black. And this isn't counting the drop in frequency of lighting change either. What little colour change there is, it's much less frequent now due to the nebulae only changing per region.

Here are some good examples of Crucible colouring: http://s884.photobucket.com/albums/ac47/DanOnTheCorner/Skinny/Darkness/Rubber%20darky/Lacking%20colour/?albumview=slideshow

Good luck achieving things like this (pre-Crucible): http://s884.photobucket.com/albums/ac47/DanOnTheCorner/Skinny/Darkness/Rubber%20darky/Good%20luck/?albumview=slideshow


2.
I also think the ships are too dark in general.
Not always, but the only exception seems to be when you're in a bright region, in a bright ship, lined up with the sun.

If not, then things are just over the edge of uncomfortable to look at. When the eye has a hard time making out details it expects to see it just doesn't feel fun; I want to play it less. Especially the shiny black Amarr ships again. They're just irritating to look at all the time, even in bright Amarr space. This seems to be compounded by the trend of the new skins to be darker yet again.

I understand that to some people it's cool to have ships lost in the blackness.

Screens of brightness/darkness:
http://s884.photobucket.com/albums/ac47/DanOnTheCorner/Skinny/Darkness/Rubber%20darky/Too%20Dark/?albumview=slideshow


3.
The reflections on the ship look scrappy and fuzzy now. I think this issue only applies to the ships with the really reflective hulls, but the difference pre- and post-Crucible is really noticeable. They appeared sleek and smooth before, really nice. Now they look rough. Only 1 screen because really you need to see the ships moving to notice properly.

http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac47/DanOnTheCorner/Skinny/Darkness/Rubber%20darky/Lacking%20colour/Image529.png

I guess this is something to do with the fact that the only colour that appears on the ship's hull is the image of the nebula, instead of an consistent ambient colour. My guess could be wrong though.


4. On the other hand, when there isn't anything being reflected, the ships look like rubber.

Screens of Anathema with nothing to reflect:
http://s884.photobucket.com/albums/ac47/DanOnTheCorner/Skinny/Darkness/Rubber%20darky/Plastic/?albumview=slideshow


So we get either scruffy reflections, or grey plastic, that's often too dark, and doesn't change for 10 jumps.


So CCP, I have one request that might solve all of these points. I am assuming the change in Crucible is mainly due to a phase of ambient lighting simply being removed. If I'm wrong oh well, but if I'm not then here's my suggestion:

1. Put back the ambient lightning so when there's no nebula on the ship's hull, there's still colour.
2. Hopefully you can somehow do that in a way that removes the plastic look as well.
3. Define the ambient lighting colour by the star, not the nebula.
4. Consider giving players a slider for this lighting, so those who like their disappearing ships can still have them.

I think applying an ambient light based on the star's colour instead of the background nebula would be fantastic because it would not only answer the points raised above, it would also be a great way to address the common complaint that we all know about the visuals being too repetitive due to Crucible's per-region nebulae. This is what I assumed would be the case before trying it on Sisi.

Thank you CCP for a great expansion. Deployment seemed to go very well at least from my perspective.

Things I really like are

The short online time for POS modules. Maybe their was a reason for this back in the dim and distant past but I am heartily glad those coma inducing waits are over.

The new warp tunnel. The way space bends when warping through a planet is great. Before it just looked rubbish. Now the immersion of bending space time is excellent.

Good to have engine trails back and everyone loves new ships. Thanks for finally working on hybrids as well.

Now I am looking forward to some real content in regards station establishments.

Excellent job. You have my subs for the foreseeable future.

I think it's nice that it is possible to press the 'dock' or 'jump' buttons before being in range, with the result that the ship will warp or approach as appropriate. It would be handy with a small indicator on the button to show whether or not the ship is in range, since this is not indicated in any way now.

I'm not so fond of the similar functionality with the open wreck/container button, since attempting to open a container slightly out of range can result in an undesired course change.

I'd like to suggest that this behaviour can be configured, or that the autopilot only attempts to warp to but not approach an object that is out of range.