Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Just like the "Depot Art" that you can find in hubs (Amarr right now, please tell me where I can look away from this spam), these ad billboards will hit you in the face soon. There's already a pretaste of what's to come on Sisi. And the good thing in EVE is that we have the technology to achieve exactly that choice that you lack in RL.

Before depots it was anchorable cans. This sort of thing has been going on in Eve since as long as I've been playing, and that's nearly 8 years. If you want to stop that, don't make small items anchorable on grid with an NPC structure. Job's done.

As for the other, you're still really not giving us any reason why. At least not a compelling reason CCP would care about.

I'm not saying I agree with you, I'm not saying I disagree. Frankly, I don't care one way or the other. But unless you can get a couple thousand people together to shoot a statue over this, CCP doesn't really pay attention to "Grr Players Annoyed by Change" threads.

My intention is not to stop that spam, my intention is to make the spam worth looking at and not worth "looking away" or "ignore it", like you or others have suggested. It's not a typical "Grr change" thread; in my perception and the hostile tone aside it's a thing that CCP should improve upon for their own good because a feature that only makes you look away or that you should ignore is not something I as a dev would be proud off.

Compelling reason? I have given several, among others the abuse of system notifications for adverts by CCP. This runs the danger of drowning out important notifications in the ad noise. Another reason is that I do not want to look away from the screens. Instead I want to look at them and see something that makes me smile. Neither the Mirelle glasses nor CFC ads on that screen make me smile; the mirelle glasses ad in particular makes people feel inferior.

CCP is making it progressively harder to justify not quitting this game for good.
This trend has been going on for far too long.

The problem with that is that you need to turn Shaders to low, which turns off all the other eye candy that you actually want to see.

I will not give up to coerce CCP into doing things that are good for the game, but thanks for your input. Not everyone is oblivious and ignorant to harmful mechanics and features of the game.

I've disabled all notifications. The blinking of the various buttons in the toolbar is sufficient notification for me.

I've checked "minimize to system tray" on the launcher, and I X it. It doesn't load ads while in the system tray, or if it does I can't see them so I don't care. I do agree it's ridiculous, on the launcher, if you compare how much surface area is allocated to the actual purpose of the launcher (to let you log in) and how much is allocated to "news" and ads.

And I always rotate the camera in-station to not see the billboards. My graphics temperatures are 40 flying around even in the densest asteroid field with godrays and everything turned on, and 55 degrees in station. But it's ok, whatever, at some point it'll be too much and they'll lose subscriptions because they really **** of their customers with these ads. Nobody likes ads.

Anyway, my suggestion for in-station, since the ads are RECRUITMENT ads, there's no reason for anyone who's already in a player corp to see them. And, maybe, tune the ads with whatever filters are set up in the corp recruitment window.

You mean the people putting up those ads in the hangars?

Also half the launcher 'ads' are feature and patch announcements. Given how few people actually actively read this stuff it's a good thing CCP are actively announcing stuff in the launcher.