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Thank you heartily for the toggle :)

Next, i would enjoy a lot if :
1) you place the stargates animation in this "togglable" category.
2) when a ship is undocking, the camera was behind it, a bit above, in a way to see as much space as possible in the direction the ship goes.

Thank you again CCP, and don't forget : make whatever fluff you want if you think that it will attract and keep new players , but NEVER remove our control on the cameras, and never mess our ergonomy and our gameplay !

In doubt ? Listen to the feedback on the test server. Still in doubt ? Always offer a toggle

Any chance the toggle can be applied to the Jump animation?

At no time should the client take camera control away from the player.

Well done CCP

Regards, a Freelancer

ps: the hideous flashbacks of CCP upper echelon management interfering with Customer decision options back in 2011 have lessened.

Sorry, I hadn't been following the release schedule on this too closely since I'm working on other projects. Edited my post, thanks.

I noticed in the patch notes that an animation was removed for logging in from space. I haven't seen any such animation, since my screen is black until I come out of warp. Is it a matter of having a faster computer, or do you think we can get our controls to show before any of the visuals.

The problem is I can't activate a covert ops cloak until I get my UI, and that doesn't show until after the skybox and all the other stuff. It would be great if I had access to my controls before visuals.

^This.

All forced Camera movement, anywhere in eve must have an on/off toggle or be removed.

Already done, multiple reports filed over previous releases...

Outstanding!!! Thank you CCP for acting so quickly to the situation, this new toggle is exactly what we needed! again thank you!

After todays patch the annoying tacky animations can be disabled. Im not going to thank CCP for allowing us to disable something that should not exist in game in its current form.

The new camera is still in many ways worse than the original camera;

- 2x input to look up and down compared to left and right. CCP has never offered a justification to this or even addressed it. There are 2 categories of people, those who dont notice, and those that think its horrible.

- Too many zoom increments close up to ship and too few increments when zoomed far out which results in sluggish zoom when up close and massive increments in zoom distance when zoomed out far. This can make it hard to put the camera at a distance that is comfortable for kiting. Also, with a ratchet-less scroll wheel mouse this has the added problem of there being far too few increments when looking further out making it far too fast to control with scroll wheel.

There are 13 increments before the camera gets to 5km from the ship. That is nearly half of the total increments available. The rest are approximately as follows;

13th = 5km
14th = 9km increment of - 4km
15th = 13km increment of - 4km
16th = 18km increment of - 5km
17th = 27.5km increment of - 9.5km
18th = 40.5km increment of - 13km
19th = 56km increment of - 15.5km
20th = 78km increment of - 22km
21st = 110km increment of - 32km
22nd = 152km increment of - 42km
23rd = 205km increment of - 53km
24th = 275km increment of - 70km.
25th = 366km
26th = 485km
27th = 638km
28th = 728km max distance.

To put that in to context here is a chart showing zoom per zoom increment. It may look like a reasonable curve. But consider that the first half of the graph may look empty but it is not. Its just that the increments are neglegable. Then suddenly the numbers start getting very big due to the lack of total number of increments.

The problem here is that for situational awareness in kite ships and doctrines, its often useful to get an overview and even pilot with the camera anywhere from 100 - 300km from your ship depending on the circumstances. Adjusting the zoom at these ranges give you no option for fine tuning your zoom since the increments are already in the 30 - 70km range per scroll wheel click. That is a huge jump.

The old camera had the advantage of many more increments which resulted in far better zoom control.

- Max zoom out is around the 725km mark compared to the original cameras 1000km, which makes no sense since you have increased the size of the grid.

Why stop so close to having the new camera work as well as the old one?

Why are you satisfied that the inferiorities listed above are satisfactory?

It would be nice if CCP finally addressed these points.

Forced camera movement is terrible. I'm very glad we have the option to remove the dock animation on particular. It was all stuttery and awful on my laptop.