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I get motion sick everytime I dock... can we please disable the docking animation?

I don't normally get motion sickness, but the animation in the station is without a doubt do it to me. I can't interrupt it like I can the undock animation.

Please give a toggle in the options to enable/disable it.


i have to log in now and not look at the screen for 5-10 seconds before the animations stoped , what crock of camels droppings this is pls give us a choice , no ccp knows best as always lets give them some stupid animation every time they change - jump clone or undock!

I thought id try turning it off by making captains quaters load - but that seams to have been removed as well !

I tried to enable static backgrounds and thats been removed as well.

So now i log in look away from the screen for 30 seconds or so and viola i dont have to look at the crappy animation unless i chnage ships , jump clone or undock and then dock up again.

Probally not.

Our focus with the settings menu right now is on reducing complexity, rather than adding it. Generally, we won't add a toggle for a new graphic feature unless it is too heavy for low-end machines, and even then we'd prefer to tie it to an existing setting.

However, your feedback about what you do or don't like about the docking animation can help direct future iteration on it, so if it bothers you, please let us know specifically why.

I recommend posting issues like this in the release issues thread alongside this one.

Hell yeah this animation is driving me nuts and I have only been online for about half an hour since the patch

In-citadel trade and contracts, and being able to set destination directly to a citadel are really nice features. Immensely useful for my kind of play, and totally met expectations there. Maybe next, citadels can be made searchable in assets.

The docking/ship changing animation - apart from being repetitive and annoying - it actually creates a worse game playing experience. Before, when I logged in for the first time, I would get a short black screen, which I would have to clear only once, and then every time thereafter when I undocked all i would get is a short session timer delay. Now every time i undock I get both a black screen and a session timer delay. Moreover it is clear that the entire docking/undocking experience takes longer then it used to largely because of the black screen that occurs.

Worse - alot of game play occurs around combat at stations - the forced camera point of view makes it difficult to impossible to undock quickly and engage your enemies. In particular its now lot harder to undock and bump people off station so as a result we are missing alot of kills.

The ship changing animation has also added a black screen and a longer session change delay. Its awful to look at and needlessly slows down changing ships - which makes it harder to quickly switch ships in the heat of combat - when fast game play is necessary.

Finally - I cannot understand CCP's hell bent need to tinker with things that are not broken - like the warp tunnel, map, scanning, and new camera - the need to make things shinny at the expense of easy of use and functionality is simply wrong headed.

Seriously you might as well of named this patch "Incarna" because it holds the same value as WiS, NOTHING. it contributes nothing to internet space ships. I want to quickly jump in and jump out of my ships not watch a short film while station spinning. Remove the feature and bring back the old docking animation. The feature is annoying has hell. It's like there nothing else in the game that needs improving (Sarcasm).