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Dughan Beltayn
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2012-09-15 21:17:24 UTC
Im pretty new at this game and in the community so the topic Im raising my be some old news. Im curious whether any thought has been given to a custom color editor for ships, or if we will see something other than the four major empire logos on them? Even something as simple as a corp logo would be a welcome change.
ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors
#2 - 2012-09-15 21:27:59 UTC
Not to be rude... but please do a forum search before posting a topic/idea/concern here (or in F&I). And no... being "new" is not an excuse to not run a search.

Yes... corp logos and possible ship coloration is being worked on... no, we don't have a timetable... no, we don't know what it will look like... no, we don't know what limitations it will have.

How did you Veterans start?
Nariya Kentaya
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#3 - 2012-09-16 06:56:50 UTC
Dughan Beltayn wrote:
Im pretty new at this game and in the community so the topic Im raising my be some old news. Im curious whether any thought has been given to a custom color editor for ships, or if we will see something other than the four major empire logos on them? Even something as simple as a corp logo would be a welcome change.

Just responding to say, Shahfluffers doesnt MEAN to sound rude, but ALOT of people ahve a tendency to beat the dead horse in proposals that have already been brought up multiple times.

Eve has been around for almost 10 years, you can bet everything that could ever possibly be sugested has been, the issue is TIME and TECHNOLOGY, for instance, with custom colors. Lets say you have 50 harbingers on field, rigth nw the server only has to keep track and send data about 50 dots labeled harbinger, your computer can generate the image itself, now if these harbies have CUSTOM COLOURS, well, now the server not only has to keep track of location and combat information, but it has to store and distribute that information to clients in the battlefield.


Now this may nt seem like a big issue, i mean hey "its only a little extra data", but take into account 50,000 players in multiple systems, as well as ships sitting IDLE in POS's that would have customs, and the server starts to ahve to carry alot more data than it used to, and with a game that HAS to tick in 1-second intervals to function properly (and then can still have issues with alrger fights), this can quickly become a game breaking deal. And that is why many "features" in eve are spread apart by months or eyars of development, adn then still have bugs for a long time, CCP works on them, bt there is a lot of issues wit coding and server-load that can creep up with things like this.



So in conclusion, Use the forum search engine, and show your support in THOSE threads, not many ideas are new or innovative enough to warrant a new thread, all ideas will be considered and given dev attention at some point, just some not as soon as others.


(like us WH players have ben waiting for corp/POS revamp since WH's came out)