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New Module Idea: External Video Camera - Thumbnail video of your target in space
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Fortin 410
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Free Range Chikuns
#1 - 2012-10-27 01:55:07 UTC
I was watching some pvp tutorials and the pilot was zooming in on ships and watching how they turned in order to turn his ship accordingly. It was very impressive and it got me thinking. What if they developed a module like an external video camera of some kind that zooms in on your target and shows you an active video in a small thumbnail of their ship. Even cooler would be the ability to have transversal and velocity and radial also shown in this box below their ship.

So pvpers in your opinion would you find this helpful? Would it be worth a high slot? Would this help solo pvpers?
Risien Drogonne
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2012-10-27 02:15:22 UTC
Wouldn't be worth any slot.
Fortin 410
Fweddit
Free Range Chikuns
#3 - 2012-10-27 02:35:53 UTC
Yea that's what I was afraid of.
Belthazor4011
Battle BV Redux
#4 - 2012-10-27 03:25:48 UTC
Why have it be a module? Sounds more like a very cool feature for the game itself...
Fortin 410
Fweddit
Free Range Chikuns
#5 - 2012-10-27 21:51:47 UTC
Yea, I am not sure how it should be integrated but it would be a nice touch. It could be skill related and it would improve the current static thumbnail of the targeted ship with a video version.
Charlie Jacobson
#6 - 2012-10-28 01:51:54 UTC
I support the idea if it's just a feature and not a module.

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Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
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#7 - 2012-10-28 01:54:44 UTC
There was, at fanfest, a suggestion that they were going to do picture in picture targeting at some point in the future. Which would be cool.

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Velarra
#8 - 2012-10-28 01:57:46 UTC
You know those new targeting / animated icons that are currently on duality / Retribution?

Well the image for the locked ship is a still image. A "Feature" where the icon was actually a PiP view of the actual other ship. Perhaps even scalable in size pending on your graphical performance preferences? That'd be a nice touch to simply shooting at icons in the overview while zoomed far out or a ball of PVE red crosses.
Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
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#9 - 2012-10-28 02:00:49 UTC
ACE McFACE
Dirt 'n' Glitter
Local Is Primary
#10 - 2012-10-29 03:15:47 UTC
Wasn't one of the pictures of a proposed future UI like that? And by future I mean so far into the future it hurts my eyes to look

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