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The asymmetrical ship, and why its important to have unique designs.

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War Kitten
Panda McLegion
#41 - 2014-06-23 11:30:24 UTC
Wu Jiaqiu wrote:
My opinion is unpopular.


That is not a very good opening sentence.

However, you did save me the trouble of finishing reading your post.

+1 would stop reading again.

I don't judge people by their race, religion, color, size, age, gender, or ethnicity. I judge them by their grammar, spelling, syntax, punctuation, clarity of expression, and logical consistency.
Serene Repose
#42 - 2014-06-23 11:39:15 UTC
Wu Jiaqiu wrote:
My opinion is unpopular. But no doubt Eve is losing its overall look. There seems to be a shift to making ships more symmetrical, but there must be an equal amount, if not, more asymmetrical ships to keep their designs "Eve". In many space themed games and movies, their vessels are always symmetrical, Eve differs by exploring ideas that these hulls do not necessarily need to be symmetrical to function in space as aerodynamics do not apply. I'd like to encourage CCP to continue exploring the ideas as they have before with designing asymmetrical hulls that gave Eve it's look and releasing assymetrical, but new designs in later expansions.
I love a good design doctrine. And, you're qualified to comment how?

We must accommodate the idiocracy.
Elmonky
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#43 - 2014-06-23 13:32:50 UTC
The only asymmetrical design I can just about cope with is the Thorax.


hell, I'd settle for the flying cubes the Borg had as long as they called it a Titan. Some of the Minmatar ships look like insects that have been scraped off a windshield.


I find the ships where they have tried to make it look ''Moar Sci Fi'' have failed horribly and the genuinely awesome looking ships (Scorpion, Megathron/Vindy, Raven) are nearly all symmetrically pleasing to the eye.


Saying that my opinion is worth less than those pixels because i preferred the old Tristan model, even though the new one looks badass
Frostys Virpio
State War Academy
Caldari State
#44 - 2014-06-23 14:32:12 UTC
J'Poll wrote:
Hasikan Miallok wrote:
The shuttle by the way is symmetrical in the roll axis but not in the yaw or pitch axis.

Or to put it another way it is symmetrical left/right but not up/down or front/back.



On an unrelated note, why do mirrors reverse left right but not up down ?


Define up/down/left/right/front/back in space, where there is no clear reference (called a horizon) to judge your situation by.


How the ship function will usually give you all of that.
Callic Veratar
#45 - 2014-06-23 15:59:10 UTC
It's almost like humans find bilateral symmetry aesthetically appealing. I wonder what possible reason there could be for that. Roll
Arronicus
State War Academy
Caldari State
#46 - 2014-06-23 16:48:37 UTC
Yes, yes. Bring back the old Moa design, thanks. /thread.
Mara Pahrdi
The Order of Anoyia
#47 - 2014-06-23 17:03:34 UTC
EVE is a scifi game. Thousands of years in the future. I don't care about realism. Only about fun.

Was the old Moa a crazy design? Sure. Was it fun? Yes. Is it fun now? I'm still pondering, but tendency is no.

Remove standings and insurance.
Hasikan Miallok
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#48 - 2014-06-23 22:51:19 UTC
Callic Veratar wrote:
It's almost like humans find bilateral symmetry aesthetically appealing. I wonder what possible reason there could be for that. Roll



Its actually a survival thing. Predators tend to have bilateral symmetry and we evolved (or were created who cares) to be sensitive to it.
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#49 - 2014-06-23 22:52:39 UTC
Mara Pahrdi wrote:
EVE is a scifi game. Thousands of years in the future. I don't care about realism. Only about fun.

Was the old Moa a crazy design? Sure. Was it fun? Yes. Is it fun now? I'm still pondering, but tendency is no.


Fun to look at

Thats your lot

"Yea, some dude came in and was normal for first couple months, so I gave him director." - Sean Dunaway

"A singular character could be hired to penetrate another corps space... using gorilla like tactics..." - Chane Morgann
Jacob Stov
#50 - 2014-06-24 00:47:08 UTC
Maybe people wouldn't complain that much if the ship would still look like a Caldari ship. I just came back after 2 years break and many ships are now different.
I like the new Condor/Crow/Raptor. There are still many vertical surfaces and those sandwhich type wings. It is clearly recognizable as Caldari ship.
Moa on the other hand with all those sloped surfaces looks like a stealthboat, but not like one of the oldest Caldari cruiser designs. Moa was fugly before, but it doesn't fit in the Caldari lineup now.
45thtiger 0109
Pan-Intergalatic Business Community
#51 - 2014-06-24 01:00:24 UTC
Thread Locked By ISD Ezwal Lol

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Hasikan Miallok
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#52 - 2014-06-24 01:28:22 UTC
45thtiger 0109 wrote:
Thread Locked By ISD Ezwal Lol



Nope, not.

Its a silly and pointless thread but GD has many of those.
Mithandra
B.O.P Supplication For Glorious
Dracarys.
#53 - 2014-06-24 10:01:15 UTC
I love the wacky, LSD dream ships of EVE

I don't care that they don't make design sense.

Eve is the dark haired, totally hot emo gothchild of the gaming community
Komi Toran
Perkone
Caldari State
#54 - 2014-06-24 14:56:28 UTC
Hasikan Miallok wrote:
Its actually a survival thing. Animals tend to have bilateral symmetry and we evolved (or were created who cares) to be sensitive to it.

Fixed it for you.

Symmetry is generally considered a sign of health. If one side is significantly different than the other, that's a sign that something has gone screwy somewhere, which is why we are neuralogically wired to avoid it.
Toshiro Hasegawa
Blackwater USA Inc.
Pandemic Horde
#55 - 2014-06-24 18:31:14 UTC
i prefered to old moa, scorp and condor. - but only because they came first .. new ones look nice too ..

History is the study of change.

Erin Crawford
#56 - 2014-06-24 18:51:28 UTC  |  Edited by: Erin Crawford
Maybe CCP should allow one the option of using the old ship models, at a cost of course, like a PLEX or two - In the same way one can Resculpt a character using a PLEX.

"Those who talk don’t know. Those who know don’t talk. "
Callic Veratar
#57 - 2014-06-24 20:29:35 UTC  |  Edited by: Callic Veratar
Hasikan Miallok wrote:
Callic Veratar wrote:
It's almost like humans find bilateral symmetry aesthetically appealing. I wonder what possible reason there could be for that. Roll

Its actually a survival thing. Predators tend to have bilateral symmetry and we evolved (or were created who cares) to be sensitive to it.

More symmetrical is better adapted and healthy and therefore more desirable and thus more aesthetically pleasing.
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