EVE General Discussion

CCP makes a big deal out of new visible missile launchers, but the fact is, I can barely see any detail on my ships when undocked, because EVE is so dark. The galaxy is poorly lit. That may be realistic 4-10 AU from the local sun, but it makes for a visually boring game, especially when the detail is there, just not visible.

Other computer games work fine for me, without me needing to tweak the settings of my monitor, so it just seems silly that all the visual detail is lost unless I bother to adjust the settings just for this one game.

I can see my ships just fine, though I've noticed the game becomes brighter with lower graphics settings. I think it might be the shader settings that affect it.

Space was much brighter in most systems before the background/nebula graphics update. I preferred it that way, since it felt more lively. I got used to the new looks pretty fast, but I'd still prefer everything to be a bit brighter. Even if space is dark, I'm sure that they'd have the technology to improve visibility 20,000 years into the future. I mean, they even have it today.

I don't like shiny stuff. I still find EVE too bright and the background too full of those flashy coloured clouds. The sparkles and special effects too are overdone. WoW in space. beuark .
I think that darker and more logical graphisms would be more immersive.

It's darker but looks more detailed to me. I hated the old star fields. The colors on the new star fields are much better, they don't have the transition problems; showing low-detailed steps from shade to shade, also known as corn rows. Yes, ships are darker by default due to shaders. But I have presets on my monitor, that's what they are there for, some for viewing pics and some for games etc. It's a quality monitor and makes a huge difference. Also the client has settings that can be fine tuned.

Normal space might be dark, but mission deadspaces are still so bright that half the time you can't even see what modules are active on your ship without spinning the camera around to find a dark spot.

The old starfields didn't look great, but they had more variety in systems in each region. The new ones look better, but seem more generic without a lot of difference unless you're changing regions. (each system in a region now seems pretty similar to the one next door to it).

Maybe they could tweak the lighting effects from different types of stars to emit more noticeable differences in colour / brightness. Perhaps even throw in an extra visual star in some systems / wormhole space backgrounds too.

Your ship has headlights, stop complaining.

you can't see details on a submarine.

The way the star fields are now, they're far more realistic moving from system to system. It really shouldn't change much. But I agree regarding the system stars, as in they are all fairly uniform. I'm sure it would be unrealistic to throw in things like magnetars and pulsars, but I think the spectrums of the existing stars could be better enhanced while providing greater variations to the lighting shaders in the systems for an overall difference. It's odd enough there being no binary stars as that is more than the norm, but I guess that is less important as players wouldn't spend much time looking for stars feeding off each other.

- Binary stars as well as pulsars would be awesome.

- As would some very dark brown dwarf stars.

- Red giants having swallowed their whole system except for slagged out external planets.

- Dark systems (black holes) with their accretion disk and some external planet/rock to anchor a station.

- Resizing of the sun/sun brightness relative to your position in system.

Doesn't need to be a lot of them, but a few scattered here and there would add some great immersion experience to the game - could even make these systems have environmental effects like in wormholes, its not like the mechanisms doesn't exist already.

Edit: To stay on topic: I find the lightning and details fine.