EVE General Discussion

Tossed a few in these albums of my more liked out of the hundreds of vetted screenshots pulled from a pool of thousands. Not a single one doctored. 100% game engine

Desktop samples

My more favorite album pics



These are some of my nicer ones over the years and are also in the albums there. Many are not uploaded, and my old photobucket contained considerably more before that site went to trash.


Boom

Glorious space
Turbulence
Phantoms
Gone Berserk
Hyperion

These few are day one screenshots. So each one was a pic I took on release day of the according picture.

Wormholes
Seyllin
Scorpion

We received over 200 screenshots so far. So quite a few. You can wait for a different competition that would be hosted for a suitable for you platform if you don't want to use Instagram.

We will announce the winners and how to get your prizes on the next o7 show. If you miss it, you can check the recording on YouTube later or just poke me directly at any time.

I am just tweeting @eveonline random screenshots of mine. It is one thing to upload direct from comp. I don't know why would choose instagram as a medium since it doesn't really connect well to eve play. So I will wait for a suitable platform myself. Unfortunate that a simple contest has to be made a hassle for people who don't have phablets.

Also, for a screenshot competition, 200 isn't too much after a day. Hell I would be 50 myself if I could access it from pc and those are only the ones that I consider top quality. Toss in more generic screenshots and.... Shoot, my screenshot folder unfiltered is several gigs of eve.

if you compare it to zero it's two hundred more

for the longest time i didn't know what to do with 200+ screen shots of freighters without permits facing justice. Thanks CCP!

Kind of both. The firework above the docking port wasn't planned nor the colors. I toyed a little bit with the perspective but for the final shot you need always a little bit luck.

Lonely Fireworks #2

Federation Day YC118 #2
Widow #2, Widow #3

Here my Widow had an engine error, luckily I didn't jumped right into the station :P
propulsion failure

this was not mine but actuallly made me spit coffee when i saw it

That one is worth a coffee related malfunction :D

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If you guys already know this, why pick Instagram in the first place? Do you think we're complaining about Instagram because we're incompetent or stupid? Unfortunately it makes me agree with this post:



I'm usually the one correcting people who say stuff like that. And what's this:



How can we even expect a different platform next time, when you picked one that you already knew would give us trouble? Why expect something other than Instagram when Twitter/Imgur where already the obvious choice and you knowingly picked something far less usable? (also, that isn't much considering even I managed to select 120 screenshots out of my nearly 10k total from the game, for this competition)



Which means there was no reason to use Instagram in the first place, if it's so easy to spotlight screenshots submitted through this thread. If you wanted the hashtag/feed effect of a stream of screenshots, you could have had that for free on Twitter or Imgur and could have generated a far larger volume of posts. You could also have used Instagram and allowed submissions in this thread, adding to the excitement when someone has their screenie spotlighted.



What a terrible answer. BlueStacks has a dodgy reputation as do other out-of-the-box emulation options. The Android SDK Emulator is quite hard to set up for this, not to mention complicated and doing it either way requires either getting the Play Store apks (which is not really acceptable to Google, there are only third-party options for this) or getting the Instagram apk from a third-party, making this not only a huge undertaking for someone not technically in-the-know but also very risky.

We will announce the winners and how to get your prizes on the next o7 show. If you miss it, you can check the recording on YouTube later or just poke me directly at any time.

Why not just edit the OP here for the winners? This policy along with:

The rules are simple:

[*] Follow us on instagram

makes me think this is an attempt to promote the eveonline Instagram account and the o7 show, which is fair enough in itself, but this competition structure is such a tease and incredibly frustrating for those of us that do take a lot of screenshots.

If you wanted to gain a following on Instagram and have us watch the o7 show, the much more efficient route would have been:

1. Submit screenshots in this thread
2. Pick the ones to spotlight on your Instagram account
3. Ask us to follow it
4. Devote 10-15 minutes on the o7 show on this
5. Remind us that we can follow the eveonline instagram on the o7 show
6. Announce winners in the OP of this thread and the o7 show live
7. Profit

It would be the same amount of work for you (since you'd still have to go through all the screenies), we would be happy, you'd get far more participation and you'd generate just as many followers on Instagram. Plus, this thread wouldn't be mostly people complaining about Instagram. In the world of UX, it's been known for ages now that trying to force people to subscribe or follow doesn't work the way you want it to - this is why pretty much anyone who knows anything about UX considers the silly "subscribe to read the entire article" trick to be terrible and in fact reduce your conversion rate instead of increase it. This approach doesn't differ at all.

We're complaining because we're unable to participate which makes us unwilling as well. Please reconsider for next time.