Test Server Feedback

Good stuff:

* Caldari CQ. I happened to be docked in Jita during the mirror, so this was the first thing I got to check out. Awesome how you can see the reflection of the huge TV on your avatar's shiny surfaces and also the black leather (?) of the sofa.

* New lightning-ball cyno effect (saw it in a video) looks cool.

* Hangar is back!

Untested stuff:

* I couldn't make today's TiDi mass-test due to other things going on at that time (work) so I didn't get a chance to see TiDi in action.

* Haven't stopped by an Amarr or Gallente station yet.

Not-working stuff:

* (minor) my cargohold window reopens itself on EVERY GATE JUMP

* (minor) the zoom level in-space resets to make my ship take up almost full screen on EVERY GATE JUMP

* (medium) Map doesn't appear via F10 or via Neocom button in the ship hangar (at least not in Jita) but works properly in space or in CQ.

* (important but not game-breaking on my machine) Overall in-space performance FPS is down from TQ build (maybe the shiny new font rendering takes more GPU horsepower?

* (major) lasers on a ship I was testing (ratting) didn't stop cycling (turned red but never shut off) so I couldn't switch targets etc, also only seemed to do damage on the 1st volley.

Weird stuff that I found:

* My female (Intaki) alt now has TWO BALLS about the size of basketballs and an array of smaller tennis-ball sized ones. One big skin-colored one in front of her chest, a matte black one behind her back, and an array of smaller balls and other texture bits on each side of her head. (I know these probably were put in for testing purposes, but they look weird).

New FONTS - Like in some locations in others the old ones worked better, do to the fact that the new ones take up more space.
Need some tweaking there.

Ship Spinning and CQ
Maybe a little thing but.
It always bugged me when CQ came out the the ship was floating above the platform and not on one of the pads.
With ship spinning returned it is really obvious now.

The ship should be on the pad.
Yes that will make them smaller but now comes part 2.

The point of view when you are in CQ looking over the bay is off.
The first thing I did when jumping from CQ to the ship was to see if I could find where I was looking from while in CQ.
Not going to happen with the Amarr for example as I am where the exit is while in CQ.

Amarr station
IF possible the Point of view should be moved along the left wall.
The pad center up on the left side that would work for the ship location.
Little things like this needs to be fixed otherwise it starts looking pieced together if that makes any sense.

It still isn't working for me. I'm getting this can't connect to so so so address on so so so port. smmmh.

Seems a long time since i had to leave, ship spinning and good icons now that's something i would play again for.

Great update. The Gallente CQ is fantastic, lighting effects and details are superb :)

Can't wait to see this tileset in action with station environments.

Some issues that I've seen so far;

1. Cannot rotate the solar system map via holding the left mouse button down after creating a bookmark whilst warping between two points. BR 117089 submitted. *Edit* work-around is to exit/reenter Solar Map view

2. Information window reverts back to the original position/size in upper left corner of the screen each time the info button is pressed in the Selected Item Box, as well as the R-click context menu.

3. There is an annoying extra distance counter in the upper left corner of the screen which flashes. We already have enough distance counters with the HUD, Selected Items Box, the overview, and the selected item on the UI screen

4. Group Tab of the market is not loading properly whether in space or docked. The only way for me to purchase items is through the Details tab of the market.

5. Fonts; there are a few areas where the font is just too big/overlapping such as the overview and the system scanner. A bit of tweaking is needed I think.

These are in addition to the known issues on page one.

Now, as far as general feedback on the latest build.....WOW! (not that other game!!!) I am liking this so far!!!! Space flight seems to be running smoother for me. I like the fade in/out when I jump. I love having my ship view back (altho I would appreciate being able to look up as well). Due to where I live, it is extremely difficult for me to participate in the mass tests, but am looking forward to TD on TQ in the (near?) future. As you can prolly guess from my comp specs below, I still haven't tried any of the CQ's.

Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6002) Service Pack 2
System Manufacturer: TOSHIBA
System Model: Satellite A215
Processor: AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-64 (2 CPUs), ~2.2GHz
Memory: 3582MB RAM
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
Card name: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400

*Edit 2* Additional Issue

6. In Game Browser defaults to original size position each time it is closed/reopened. Additionally, I am having to re-trust trusted sites each time i close/reopen IGB (specifically DOTLAN:RADAR).

7. Tried to link a fit to the chat window but link fails when enter is pressed; only the white text appears. Same with attempting to link a solar system as a destination.

1. My beard/stubble disappeared.

2. I loathe the digit based "time needed to train to the next level" that appears on Skills tab of the Character Sheet.
production: 1D 12H 15M 30S <-- good
test: 01:12:15:30 <-- bad, hard to read. Probably unintuitive for noobies since a DD:HH:MM:SS format isn't common in the real world.

A few more things to add to your list for checking;

Whenever I undock, my ship is always facing me head (front) on and not facing away from me (the station) like it always did and has to turn around to fly away from the station.

As reported, jumping through a gate or undocking always opens the cargo hold and resets the ship size to default view (closeup) and not zoomed out like it jumped.

As reported, my avatar has lost all facial hair.

No ‘return to hanger’ button when looking at ‘the door’.

Running Eve on a small screen 1366*768 (my laptop) causes many text messages and prompts to ‘scrunch up’ or overlap making the words unreadable. The text really needs to be vectored so it scales with the screen size.

Odd windows have a habit of either jumping to default positions or changing from unpinned to pinned for no apparent reason.

Somewhere I read in a blog that our avatar would be facing the ship when we decant into the CQ on the balcony. Well close but no cigar, my avatar is sort of 45deg towards the ship but not facing it.

The bed needs to be longer (or the avatar shorter) in the Gallente quarters or we can’t lie down (assuming you ever get round to animating that ).

No station name above the entrance door to my quarters in the Gallente version and if you do put it back could you make it a bit more prominent, larger or brighter text, possible a spotlight trained on it.

When can we expect to be able to test the new features again?

Pwned.