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Omg yes! TBH current explosions are soooo not satisfying that im unable to shoot other ships, or even want to play... yeah maybe that's stupid but i don't feel any purpose of pew pew, launching massive missiles etc just to see battleship not exploded but "fart"

Also why ship redesigning slows down?

Very nice!
So when are you adding distance to the watchlist?

Was there an update to the Einherji's shaders? The icon is a little different, and unless I'm imagining things, lighting hits it different than it did before.

CCP Sledgehammah,

It is exciting to hear that you are considering changes to the UI that will give pilots more information about combat. I had some thoughts and questions on this because it is a subject I've thought about in the past.

First, when you are considering adding 'Chance to Hit' information, not all of the information a pilot would need to determine that probability is available in the interface right now. While distance, transverse velocity, signature resolution of your turrets, falloff, are all available to you as a pilot, the signature radius of the target, however, is not dynamically available in the interface. If the target is pulsing a MWD or they are fit with shield mods, you can't know their sig radius. You can try to infer it from velocity but it is not, as far as I know, communicated with other clients on-grid. In this way, determining the hit chance and presenting this information to players will now provide us with information that was previously unknowable in the interface. This is an interesting development that I think would take some of the mystery out of combat for new players, as well as reduce the need to explain log arithmetic when describing tracking mechanics. This could be positive for new players.

Second, from the discussion on reddit, as well as in this thread, it is not clear whether there will be improved support for control of automatic orbit plane? I.e. will we be able to control the plane of orbit that we establish when using the orbit command? This should be a straightforward addition because the existing orbit algorithm pilots towards a point that is a set distance away from the target. What about using the camera vector as the way to specify the orbit plane with both of those common points (I can post a full explanation in my blog next week if you are interested). This would give new pilots the opportunity to command orbits that avoided immovable objects such as 'roids and stations, which would normally require manual piloting.

Finally, Would you also be interested in considering changes that help player visualize the transverse velocity vector? I have some ideas on how this could be done. I haven't written them up in the past because I don't want to be perceived to be lobbying for changes to the game based on my writing. Maybe I'll add my notes on this when I get a chance. Glad to see you are considering giving players more geometric tools for combat.


Regards,

S. Santorine

The orbit plane is purely representative right now. We'd have to sit down with game design and plan out the ability to select your orbit by using the Tac Overlay representation. We're having a mass test this evening (5PM EVE time) and will be checking the tac overlay out as part of that. We hope to have the velocity indication and vectors for your ship/targets in as well, but I will update here if that is not the case. As far as the chance-to-hit information goes, it's probably not going to make it in to this release but we think that the velocity and vector indications are a solid foundation to build that information into the overlay.

Sterling work chaps,

A few Ideas.

Logi mods range in green, not red.

Optimal and maximum range for drones when one is selected, especially sentry drones.

Less spokes, 16 looks like a wheel, 8 would suffice and still look cool.

Some colour to the line you get when you select a 'thing', yellow would make sense to me as that is the colour for gates and stations you set as your destination. Nothing to bright, something nice and subtle.

Increased overall range, 200km looks tiny when zoomed out a long way, maybe for battleships and above?

The white dots where the selected item meets the overlay are too big, or bold or something, looks a mess when you have lots of stuff bunched up together, like wrecks around a MTU for example.

The move too option you introduced by pressing Q is fantastic, but it can get a bit wonky when selecting the vertical angle from certain camera angles, perhaps a slightly slower movement speed would assist this. The distance part on the horizontal axis is fine.

You brought in a permanent icon (used to need to press alt) representing your ship when zoomed out a certain distance, could you add some effect to that icon when you are cloaked?

Lastly, some digital distortion/degradation to the whole overlay when in a warp. It looks to crisp and clean when the rest of the screen is all... er... warpy.

A. OK. I came in TEST server and looked dock's. It seems fine , but they dark. I have a next idea.

You can keep 2 docks light and dark. How ? It's simple.

1. At 6~7 AM of EVE dock will be light (because everything starts to work, the pilots appear scurrying workers - need lighting(my imagination))
2. At 12 AM of EVE dock will be dark (workers go away and ships remain, all scatter to their cabins (
my imagination)) http://i.imgur.com/qPQ8KHe.jpg?1
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B. I look engines of ship. Much realistic with reflection of fuel .

C. Good idea when ship dock, you can see how fly it on the place. You can change distance-place, like ship fly through hangars with other ships. http://i.imgur.com/nOokeBB.jpg?1 . I also had that idea to offer (as always, but I think it would not have noticed) Not like cinematic view camera, you can't spin.

I have much of ideas. You can doing 2-3 exit of docks. They can be automatic random. 1 from one side of station, and one from other.

I found graphics to be far better performance wise when running on Mac
and better quality overall -- but Only when Able to Run on Mac :)

UPDATE - NOW I am getting far better results on my new Windows 10 system

Moving on to current issues...

aye, good call. I didn't think about colour blind issues. Blue though, as cyan is evil.

I hope this is the right place for this, my Phantasm seems to look different on the current SiSi built. There is a silver-ish plating thing around the elliptic spikey-front.

And copyships didn't copy my TQ killmark does it have a new placement?