EVE General Discussion

I once turned my monitor by 180 degrees which worked pretty well! Encouraged by this success i experimented a bit just to find out moving the monitor to a different room would probably an appropriate solution too- but the cable costs are really high and probably not affordable for everyone.

Sidestepping an issue is an option, but by no means should be a programme-maximum. Sometimes workarounds will be useable, sometimes more stress-inducing than the issue itself. Informing devs about things that would make life better is what we must do even if we can live with what is there already.

Then, one thing is if we are talking about important part of the gameplay connected to many things, another story if it's just freaking eyecandy. Seriously, why should we have rigid visuals and bad intrface in 21st century? Especially if it's like in this case, when would-be alternative is already there.

I love love love the new animation :)


Yes I'm serious.

I cant see how people advocating that folk close their eyes or turn their heads to avoid seeing something in eve is a good thing for the game or the hallmark of quality programing.

Personally, I've trained myself to turn my eyes away from the monitor as I jump - usually to my second monitor - to avoid watching the animation. Its a coping mechanism. But in a game which prides itself on the quality of its art work, why should it contain something that is so annoying that people are actually physically avoiding it?

It's not my problem if you can't use the search function son.

What? Is Ranger1 back to making unsupported/unsupportable statements about the collective opinion of the entire eve populace concerning the jump animation and autoscan animations that came with this expansion? Click. Back to ignore Ranger1 posts.

I don't know if you were trolling, or were genuinely naive with your "just close the eyes" post. To give you the benefit of the doubt, I will assume the latter.

Thing is, there is only one improvement that I (and many others in this thread) want. That improvement is an OFF BUTTON.

Such an improvement can likely be coded in, oh, a few hours, including some super-thorough QC, and a "we were wrong, and we are sorry" post in this thread. Why this simple improvement has not been done yet escapes me. After all, CCP are a business, and they probably want my subscription/PLEX money. Yearly subscription fees from just the two accounts I unsubbed must be almost enough to cover 2 hours of development time, billed at ~$100/hour. Something tells me I am not the only one who unsubbed over this.

And for those of you defending the animation (and CCP), before you suggest I close my eyes:

• Please explain how will an off button impact YOUR game
• Please explain how is CHOICE in this matter a bad thing, and how it is different from QC/hangar issue

It would be the best solution, but the best isn't necessary the most realistic... If it was so easy to solve any case of motion sickness in video games, it would be done by all games from a while but of course it isn't, because it can't be done. So most of the modern FPS compensate by giving options to disable some of the annoyances (setting the FOV, disable the "weapon bobbing", etc.) and that is a better way to go.

Because even if CCP give a big effort into it, it won't correct the annoyances, it will just reduce a few their impact. This animation will still hurt after a certain amount of jumps, and that wouldn't be a problem if it wasn't an essential part of the gameplay. Most of the players have to do dozens of jumps a day, especialy when pvping.

With the actual jump animation, the last time I travelled without auto-pilot and without using any "workarounds", it was only 32 jumps with a frigate and some valuable BPOs inside so it requested full attention to be sure to not be shoot at stupidely. I got an headache for a more than one hour, after I docked at the destination. I remember the days that I did 60+ jumps at once without consequences.

The big error of CCP is to include a 1st person view with blocked camera, into a full 3rd person game with free camera. If the animation was like the rest of the game or if there was some options to adapt it for my needs (like be able to reduce the tunnel light, etc.), it would be great. But CCP want do the contrary, they want remove options. Someone remember the "Sun is occluded by objects" one ? I loved it because I disabled it all the time, but they removed it since Odyssey.

they could do like they have done with jb and titan bridges, not show the graphic's if you have effects set to off.

That the effect is popular is easily supportable, use the search function on the forum.

Granted, you will have to do what I do and actually read posts that disagree with your opinion... instead of hitting ignore on all of the ones you don't like.

I've never disagreed that there is an issue that needs to be (and is being) addressed. That gentleman was attempting to assert as fact that the effect is universally hated... which is absurd.