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"It looks so small," She said
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Spaceman Jack
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#1 - 2012-09-25 20:17:06 UTC
And I was flying a supercap.

She was right, of course. Eve ships look tiny.

The recent change to camera angles and distance helped, but something still holding back the massive scale of eve. Big ships just dont feel big.

This video I just saw of freespace EVEmod give a good relation of size, but EVE itself still does not
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbbfHZFYt5s

Collision disances are one of the problems, ships just cant get close enough to each other to make a difference. Frigates should be able to get up and in the crevices of carrier and stations, but you get bumped out when you are stil quite a distance.

What can be done?
Jim Era
#2 - 2012-09-25 20:17:33 UTC  |  Edited by: Jim Era
wat


do not question me.

Wat™
BoBoZoBo
MGroup9
#3 - 2012-09-25 20:20:04 UTC  |  Edited by: BoBoZoBo
Jim Era wrote:
wat


Did you mean "wat?"?
Or was that "wat" rhetorical?

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Lord Ryan
True Xero
#4 - 2012-09-25 20:24:15 UTC
When I was quite young one chick ask to see it, so I showed it to her. She yelled it's purple and ran away.


That's about as much as I can relate. Never did figure out how she saw purple.

Do not assume anything above this line was typed by me. Nerf the Truth, it's inconvenient.
stoicfaux
#5 - 2012-09-25 20:30:35 UTC
Lord Ryan wrote:
Never did figure out how she saw purple.

Doppler effect. Next time don't thrust forward.

As for the OP, if ships had an appropriate sense of scale, ships would be tiny compared to asteroids, stations, planets, stars, etc.. It would take the focus away from the ships too much.


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TheBreadMuncher
Protus Correction Facility Inc.
#6 - 2012-09-25 20:32:44 UTC
Just make everything tiny and have done with it. But leave weapon sizes the same. I want to see dread guns bigger than dreads.

"We will create the introduction thread if that is requested by the community. Also, we will have an ISD Seminar about the CCL team in the coming weeks in which you can ask your questions about the CCL team and provide some constructive feedback to us." - Countless pages of locked threads and numerous permabanned accounts later, change is coming.
Solhild
Doomheim
#7 - 2012-09-25 20:37:24 UTC
As they say in the trade, "It's not the size of the nail, what matters most is the size of the hammer you use to bang it in with!"
James 315
Experimental Fun Times Corp RELOADED
CODE.
#8 - 2012-09-25 20:44:07 UTC
My first reaction was What?

After I read the full context my reaction was What?

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TokiWartooth Joringer
Doomheim
#9 - 2012-09-25 20:57:23 UTC
Lord Ryan wrote:
When I was quite young one chick ask to see it, so I showed it to her. She yelled it's purple and ran away.


That's about as much as I can relate. Never did figure out how she saw purple.

So your the man in the Barney costume! P

I feel a disturbance in the force, ISD is nearby
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#10 - 2012-09-25 21:10:32 UTC  |  Edited by: Surfin's PlunderBunny
"It looks so small"

"Little ginger moron" ~David Hasselhoff 

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Soi Mala
Whacky Waving Inflatable Flailing Arm Tubemen
#11 - 2012-09-25 22:18:55 UTC
Petrus Blackshell
Rifterlings
#12 - 2012-09-25 22:20:50 UTC
Spaceman Jack wrote:
Frigates should be able to get up and in the crevices of carrier and stations

Mmmm.... go on...

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No More Heroes
Boomer Humor
Snuffed Out
#13 - 2012-09-26 01:13:25 UTC
I WANNA CLING TO A SUPERCAP IN A RIFTER LIKE THE MILLENIUM FALCON ON THAT STAR DESTROYER IN EMPIRE STRIKES BACK.

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Skippermonkey
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#14 - 2012-09-26 01:45:59 UTC
No More Heroes wrote:
I WANNA CLING TO A SUPERCAP IN A RIFTER LIKE THE MILLENIUM FALCON ON THAT STAR DESTROYER IN EMPIRE STRIKES BACK.

imagine... a frigate fleet all 'clamping' themselves to the side of a capital ship and self destructing

(if star trek ever taught me anything is that you can eject your 'warp core' to kill the enemy and safely escape at slower-than-light-speeds)

COME AT ME BRO

I'LL JUST BE DOCKED IN THIS STATION
Jake Warbird
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#15 - 2012-09-26 02:48:43 UTC
That's what she... Oh... Never mind...

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Webvan
All Kill No Skill
#16 - 2012-09-26 03:50:55 UTC
Spaceman Jack wrote:

This video I just saw of freespace EVEmod give a good relation of size, but EVE itself still does not
Well yeah, that's freespace, where capitals look like capitals. I've been playing the babylon project for years, and yeah there is a big difference between the engines. Camera/fov tweaks might help some. And yes, collision detection.

I'm in it for the money

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Gorn Arming
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#17 - 2012-09-26 04:14:59 UTC
A big part of it is the terrible texture resolution on larger ships.
Mars Theran
Foreign Interloper
#18 - 2012-09-26 05:16:32 UTC
Gorn Arming wrote:
A big part of it is the terrible texture resolution on larger ships.


That's the issue with larger models. They tend to stretch the textures a lot. Figure your average High Resolution texture is 1024 by 1024, and that it is literally wrapped around the whole model. On a small ship, that might look fine, but on a large model.. not so much. It was pretty obvious, even on Battleships, up until V3.
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Lin-Young Borovskova
Doomheim
#19 - 2012-09-26 06:00:35 UTC
I want my hud to look a little bit more like that, less the jerk yelling for help and also better music

That should be all.

brb
baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#20 - 2012-09-26 06:03:50 UTC
TokiWartooth Joringer wrote:
Lord Ryan wrote:
When I was quite young one chick ask to see it, so I showed it to her. She yelled it's purple and ran away.


That's about as much as I can relate. Never did figure out how she saw purple.

So your the man in the Barney costume! P


Wait Barney isn't real?
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