Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Preferably without the lag or levels/skills :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oFLnO0fhAM&feature=related


Frigates should be be flying like this! lol! Let the big ass cruisers and battleships have the silly lock on battles, someone needs to look at investing in a global fibre optic network. Seriously though, if a game being developed for free can do this why not a company with millions of dollars? It doesn't make much sense.

What a defeatist attitude.

No... because Boeing 747 sized ships (remember, the smallest combat frigate is about 60 METERS in length) moving faster than a bullet and armed with weapons that fire man sized objects cannot turn on a dime.

On a more serious note...

- we STILL have issues with lag in 50 to 100+ person fights with the controls that are CURRENTLY available to us...
- the server "ticks" about once per second (this means that any new [series of] commands are input only once per second) which isn't really good for "twitch" based combat.

Honestly... do a search and find the INNUMERABLE other threads that propose the same goddamn thing and are shot down the same goddamn way.

Indeed.

EVE is EVE, stop trying to make it like other games and just go play that other game

Blalala, we get it, you aren't very good at Eve and you hate the game. Now, since this isn't a feature request, idea, or a proposal, why not GTFO and go make threads somewhere people care?

Hi. I'm rubbish at FPS games, yet I enjoy flying about in various frigates on occasion. this change would make it impossible forme to fly around in said frigates, as people who are good at FPS games will kill me before I know they're even there.

I don't care about people who are good at eve doing that, because I know I can learn to do the same thing, but it's kind of hard for some of us to suddenly learn to play an FPS as well as a 14 year old COD player.

That and the usual reasons you have been told literally dozens of times but refuse to accept. you know, the server ticks, lag, ship size and everything else.

Your closest hope is to use DUST for something similar. Maybe drone piloting in the planet's atmosphere, or taking over drone controls by consent. (Said control won't be obvious or likely even noticeable on the EVE side, you would be playing a mini game with trivial in-game effect)

By explanation, since DUST is using the Playstation 3, all the consoles have the same specs, so the individual fighters won't have that over each other.

Also, possibly opens up the idea for these fighters to be carrier based. They would interact with ships the same as current carrier drones, including being in trouble if they cannot return to the carrier.

The carrier, however, would have less control over them, obviously.

(The player controlled ships would revert to regular drones if the players were not online, if they were available, they would have the option of taking control of these in fights once they were launched)
(The drones would be incentive based to allow players to control them, maybe less expensive than normal ones for the carrier pilot to buy and use)

Also, please note: the ONLY data sent to the EVE servers would be
1. Which ship the drone was focused on, (determines orbit and subsequent targeting from EVE)
2. How much damage was done to this target by the drone, and send back the damage to the drone

(On the EVE side, we would still just see the same drone orbit tactic, showing an astrobatic pilot's actions having no meaning or value to this side)

A twitch combat system requires a type of server architecture is incompatible with EVE, or a system like EVE. Twitch combat requires the servers be as close to as many people as possible, that the server can respond within milliseconds instead of seconds, and that it doesn’t have to confirm every update with a database. The cluster type system that EVE is based on which values reliability of data communication over microsecond speed can’t make the responses and updates at the rate that can be done for a twitch combat. This is why you may have noticed that most FPS games are limited to 32 people at a time. The computational limitations are well known.